Intuitive perception : presented by a new philosophy of natural realism, in accord with universally accepted truths / by William Henry Hodge.

  • Hodge, William Henry.
Date:
1903
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    ©be onlg Bbequate ©ne gested ; and the only one which is competent to spread itself out over the four thousand years, and bind all the facts together in a connected and united whole. It alone gives significance to the Jewish history from its begin- ning to the present day; and it alone dovetails it into, and connects it with the known facts concerning Christ, and gives a satisfactory meaning to it, in its connection with Him, the Son of God, as we must acknowledge Him to be. Concerning this explanation, three suppositions alone are possible. First, that the Book containing it is the record of the aspirations and hopes of Jewish patriotism. Second, that it is the record of careful observers, who have studied the facts and have discovered, and made known their true character. Third, that the Book is what it claims to be, the revelation of the true character of the facts by Him, who is Himself their author. Of the first of these we will speak presently. The second cannot be true; for the facts must be consum- mated before they can be observed, and their character and explanation be discovered. The nebular hypothesis could not have been made and established before the solar system had been formed. The Geologist must have the completed record of the rocks, and of the earth as it now is, before he can explain the meaning of earth’s strata and of its diversified surface. The Biologist and Evolutionist must have the facts of organic life from the remotest past to the present, before their sciences can be made. The historian must have the connected series of events through years and periods, that he may unfold their significance, and transform annals into scientific history. So the facts of Jewish history must be com- pleted, before they can be examined, and their explana- tion thereby be discovered; but the Old Testament, which gives it, was concluded four hundred years before