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    The Importance of Accuracy in the Study of Holy Scripture
    The Importance of Accuracy in the Study of Holy Scripture
    The Importance of Accuracy in the Study of Holy Scripture
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    The Importance of Accuracy in the Study of Holy Scripture

    By E. W. Bullinger

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    “All Scripture is given by inspiration of God.” The last five words of this declaration are represented by only one word in the Greek, (Theopneustos), which means, literally, “God-breathed.” All scripture is God-breathed/God-inspired.[1] When, therefore, we are dealing with Scripture, how important it is that we should be most accurate in noticing each single word which God has inspired, however small, or apparently unimportant. Inspiration must be regarded by us as a fact, a great, grand, and blessed fact to be believed and received, and not a system to be constructed or described. It is a fact which (as Gaussen says) is denied in its existence, in its universality, and in its plentitude. Some deny that there is any such thing at all, some deny that the whole of Scripture is inspired, admitting only certain parts so to be; while others, granting that the whole is inspired, deny that it is fully so, admitting it as regards the sense, but not the words. With these I do not propose to deal. I am addressing those who, I trust, are depending on the faithfulness of God’s word of promise for their salvation, and who extend the same confidence to all the other “words which the Holy Ghost teacheth’ 



    [1] I am aware of the alternative renderings proposed; e.g., “every (portion of) Scripture being God-breathed is profitable,” etc. or “every Scripture which is God-breathed is profitable,” etc. but these renderings do not affect the real point at issue.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCrossReach Publications
    Release dateFeb 25, 2022
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      The Importance of Accuracy in the Study of Holy Scripture - E. W. Bullinger

      Preface to the First Edition

      The following is the substance of a LECTURE delivered on November 18th, 1879, before the Walthamstow Church Sunday School Association. It is published at the request of those who heard it. 

      It was delivered from very brief notes, and has since been written from those notes, with some additions. 

      It is sent forth with the prayer that Jehovah, whose ‘word it was designed to honour, may pardon all that is amiss, graciously accept all that is in accordance with His will, and use it, for the glory of His great name, and for the honour of His holy Word.

      ETHELBERT W. BULLINGER.

      WALTHAMSTOW,

      April, 1880.

      The Importance of Accuracy in the Study of Holy Scripture

      All Scripture is given by inspiration of God. The last five words of this declaration are represented by only one word in the Greek, (Theopneustos), which means, literally, God-breathed. All scripture is God-breathed/God-inspired.¹ When, therefore, we are dealing with Scripture, how important it is that we should be most accurate in noticing each single word which God has inspired, however small, or apparently unimportant. Inspiration must be regarded by us as a fact, a great, grand, and blessed fact to be believed and received, and not a system to be constructed or described. It is a fact which (as Gaussen says) is denied in its existence, in its universality, and in its plentitude. Some deny that there is any such thing at all, some deny that the whole of Scripture is inspired, admitting only certain parts so to be; while others, granting that the whole is inspired, deny that it is fully so, admitting it as regards the sense, but not the words. With these I do not propose to deal. I am addressing those who, I trust, are depending on the faithfulness of God’s word of promise for their salvation, and who extend the same confidence to all the other "words which the Holy Ghost teacheth’ 

      In fact, we may divide people into two great classes with regard to their treatment of the Bible:

      1. Those who put the Bible above everything. 

      2. Those who put something above the Bible. 

      The first say the scripture cannot be broken. Heaven and earth shall pass away, but My words shall not pass away. They have respect to the jot and tittle, and thus treat the Scriptures as Christ and His apostles treated them. The second say that they, although they are only human judges, are lawfully entitled to sit in judgment upon Scripture, and actually do put something above it. The Jews put their Targums and Talmud above it, and make void the Word of God by their tradition.

      Romanists put the Church and Tradition above it.

      Philosophers and Scientists put poor human reason above it.

      Mysticists, and others such as the Swedenborgians, Mormons and Shakers, etc., put new revelations above it, professing to have received them from heaven.

      As disciples of the Lord Jesus Christ, we say, with one of old, Speak, Lord, for Thy servant heareth—The law of the Lord is perfect.

      The command to disciples or learners is, Search Search the Scriptures. (John 5:39). Let us see what we may learn from noting accurately the meaning of the word here translated Search—(ereunao). It means to trace out, to track, to follow or scent out as a dog or a lion; hence, to notice a word, follow it out, see how it is used elsewhere, trace it and track it out in all its usages, and thus learn the mind of the Spirit and the will of God. There is another word used in Acts 17:11, where it says of the Jews of Berea These were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of mind and searched the scriptures daily whether these things were so. The word here is (anakrino), and it means to divide up; hence, to estimate carefully, judge of or sift, and it shows us how, if it be an apostle speaking, or even an angel from heaven, we are to go to the Word of God, compare it with what He has said, and judge of it accordingly. Then will it be true of us, as it is written of them—"Therefore many of them believed"! Here we have at once, at the outset, a beautiful example of what we may learn by observing accurately the very words that are employed.

      Thy word is Truth. It will bear any amount of investigation or searching, because it is Divine. No human mind can ever by searching exhaust the fullness of the word of God. For what man knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of man which is in him? Even so the things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God. If we study a book written by man, a mind of equal power can exhaust it and fathom it. When it has done this, there is nothing more it can do. But the Bible is God-breathed, infinite wisdom has indited it, and who then can ever say he has exhausted it? There is just the same analogy between Divine and human works. God’s works will bear any amount of investigation, whether by microscope

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