Bible difficulties and their alleviative interpretation

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BIBLE DIFFICULTIES
AND THEIR
Alleviative Interpretation
BY y
ROBERT STUART MacARTHUR
PastorofCalvary BiiptistChurch,NewYork
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PREFACE
During the past few months, the substance of
the chapters comprising this volume was deliv-
ered in addresses onconsecutive Sundayevenings
in the regular course of the author's ministry in
the Calvary Baptist Church. He has long felt
that mostof the difficulties generally supposedto
be in the Bible are not really in the Bible; but
are in the human interpretation of the Bible,
rather than in the divine revelation itself. It is
vastly important to separate between erroneous
biblical exposition and the actual truth of divme
revelation.
The newer scholarship, it will read.i..ly -bue adi-
mitted has disturbed the faith of some Bible stu-
dents-'but it is absolutely certain that it has
given'the fiible afresh interest and an increased
value It is not necessary to accept all the con-
clusions of the so-called Higher Critics; indeed,
these conclusions are often atvariance with one I
another, and more careful criticism will entirely
refute someof the positions taken. But we can
readily seethatthe later criticism has done much
to disabuse the minds of some readers of their
traditional interpretations and unauthoritative
preconceptions of Holy Scripture; and, as a re-
sult the Biblewasnever so new and so attractive
a library as it is at this hour. It never was so
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