BISHOP COLENSO ON THE HORNS OF A DILEMMA. LONDON: · HATCHARD AND CO. 187 PICCADILLY. 100. c. 73 [Right of Translation reserved.} BISHOP COLENSO ON THE HORNS OF A DILEMMA. CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTION. BISHOP COLENSO admits that the principles of honest and truthful exposition are admirably laid down in the following extracts: "Let the interpreter resolve, with God's assisting grace, Par. 21.* to be candid and truthful. Let him fear not to state honestly the results of his own honest investigations; let him be simple, reverent, and plain-spoken; and, above all, let him pray against that sectarian bias which, by importing its own foregone conclusions into the word of Scripture, and by refusing to see or to acknowledge what makes against its own prejudices, has proved the greatest known hindrance to all fair interpretation, and has tended, more than anything else in the world, to check the free course of divine truth.". -Aids to Faith: DEAN ELLICOTT. P. 421. * N.B. The marginal notes refer to the paragraphs of Bishop Colenso's Critical Examination of the Pentateuch. |