Excerpt from Truth Versus Edification
Or two to say. But the argument we are criticizing was Obviously based upon the first and more polite division 5 and on that supposition only could it have any validity whatever. If, indeed, as Mr Arnold appears tacitly to have assumed or intended to imply, the theological teachers of the nation - all 'instructed men - knew perfectly well, and had long known, that much Of the Pentateuch was un historical, that none of it was verbally and textually inspired, that it contained many narratives which were legendary, and some legends that were Of a very doubtful moral tendency, - that amid splendid truths and sublime revelations, and pure and noble precepts, and marvellous insight into God's character and dealings, it mingled much Of a very different if not Opposing nature 5 - and if, knowing all this, they carefully winnowed the wheat from the chaff, and - without disturbing the minds of their uncritical and undoubting hearers by hints of sceptical theology - taught them only what was edifying, made them believe only what was credible, insisted only on worthy and elevated views of God, and reiterated and enforced only that pure morality and that unfaltering trust as to the truth and value of which no question could arise, - then, indeed, we might have been ready to admit that critical propositions which all.
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