,,the  ,,testimony ,,of ,,the ,,bible   
,,concerning ,,the  ,assumptions of     
,destructive ,criticism  ,,by  ,s4,e4   
,,wishard1 ,d4,d4  ,,los ,,angeles1     
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,,institute ,,press  #aiji  ,copyright1 
#aiji  ,by ,s4,e4 ,,wishard1 ,d4,d4     
,presentation ,copy         99       99 
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and confirmation of the truth  --,phil  
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,angeles1 ,calif4     ,,foreword4       
,this booklet is sent out   ,to all     
,sabbath-school teachers1   ,to the     
young people of the ,christian churches1
   ,and to all believers in the living  
,word4         99       99       99     
99       99  ,the work of the           
destructive critics has been widely     
disseminated in current literature4     
,magazines1 secular newspapers1 and some
 religious papers are giving currency to
 these critical attacks on the ,word of 
,god4 ,the young people of our churches 
are exposed to the insidious poison of  

this skepticism4 ,it comes to them under
 the guise of a broader and more liberal
 scholarship4 ,they have neither the    
time nor the equipment to enter the     
field of criticism1 nor is this work    
demanded of them4  ,while abler pens are
 meeting and answering the questions    
raised by destructive critics1 something
 may be said that will clear away the   
fog produced by them and enable young   
,christians to come directly to the     
truth4  ,hence this booklet is an       
attempt to give ,god a chance to have   
his say4 ,the testimony presented is on 
the divine plan of giving1 ,precept upon
 precept1 precept upon precept1 line    
upon line1 line upon line1 lest we      
forget4  ,there has been no attempt to  
cover the whole ground of destructive   
criticism in the brief compass of this  
booklet4 ,it will be enough to permit   
,god to answer2 hence1 in the following 
pages he speaks for himself4 ,we are    
content that his voice shall be heard4  
,s4,e4 ,,wishard4     ,,contents        

,,page     ,i4 ,,our ,,attitude ,,toward
 ,,destructive ,,criticism        #i    
,,ii4 ,,should ,,reply ,,be ,,made8     
#ag   ,,iii4 ,,was ,,moses ,a ,,literary
 ,,fiction8                   #be       
,,iv4 ,,were ,,christ ,,and ,,the       
,,apostles ,,mistaken8          #ci     
,v4 ,,the ,,attack ,,on ,,the ,,book    
,,of ,,leviticus             #ei        
,,vi4 ,,assumptions ,,concerning ,,the  
,,book ,,of ,,isaiah       #gc   ,,vii4 
,,god',s ,,reply ,,to ,,these           
,,assumptions4               #hg        
,,viii4 ,,the ,,historicity ,,of ,,the  
,,book ,,of ,,jonah           #aja      
,,ix4 ,,radical ,,exposition            
#aaa     ,x4 ,,god ,,his ,,own          
,,interpreter                           
#aai     ,i4 ,,our ,,attitude ,,toward  
,,destructive ,,criticism4  ,be ye      
therefore followers of ,god1 as dear    
children2 and walk in love1 as ,christ  
also hath loved us4 ,eph4 v4 #a1 #b4    
,be patient toward all men4 ,see that   
none render evil for evil unto any man2 

but ever follow that which is good1 both
 among yourselves and to all men4 #a    
,thess4 v4 #ad1 #ae4  ,he that believeth
 shall not make haste4 ,isa4 xxviii4    
#af4  ,the works of his hands are verity
 and judgment2 all his commandments are 
sure4 ,they stand fast forever and ever1
 and are done in truth and uprightness4 
,psa4 cxi4 #g1 #h4  ,my counsel shall   
stand1 and ,i will do all my pleasure4  
,isa1 xlvi4 #aj4   ,the attitude which  
,god's people should assume toward      
destructive criticism has been          
questioned4 ,it should certainly be a   
position of calm patience1 that can     
deliberately weigh valid testimony1 and 
abide by the decision of intelligent    
judgment4 ,the history and life of the  
,church for nearly two thousand years   
should go for something4 ,they are not  
to be swept away by the bluff1 the      
egoism of what claims to be the only    
,expert ,scholarship4  ,there is no     
occasion for a panic4 ,truth that has   
been1 and has builded noble1 goodly     

life1 is truth still1 and ever will be4 
,it is not a time for denunciation4 ,the
 assumptions of the destructive critics 
are so enormous1 so radically           
revolutionary1 so directly aimed at     
vital truth1 that one's heart is        
stirred4 ,there is danger of yielding to
 the heat of a righteous indignation4   
,it is not well to lose one's           
intellectual and moral poise1 even in a 
contest involving the honor of ,god and 
the welfare of immortal souls4 ,but he  
that believeth shall not make haste4    
,the lovers of the ,book that has safely
 passed through every storm of          
antagonism that the ,prince of ,darkness
 could evoke1 need not now be moved to  
hasty utterance4 ,the eternal           
foundations of truth1 like him who laid 
them1 are the same1 yesterday1 to-day   
and forever4 ,the ,book1 with all its   
precious doctrines1 is here to stay4 ,it
 can not be destroyed4 ,fire has not    
burned it1 water has not quenched it1   
the edicts of tyrants and popes have not

 been able to break its power4 ,the     
,church of ,god can calmly rest on the  
word of ,god1 which liveth and abideth  
forever4 7#a ,peter i4 #bc47 ,hence we  
may calmly move on undisturbed in our   
work4  ,further1 our attitude should be 
marked by an intelligent understanding  
of the question involved4 ,it is not a  
question of fair1 honest criticism1 for 
the purpose of a deeper knowledge of    
,god and his truth4 ,all reverent and   
helpful study of the ,word of ,god is   
critical1 and is the kind of criticism  
that the ,book challenges4 ,our ,lord   
invites it1 and urges us to search the  
,scriptures1 which testify of him4  ,it 
is assumed by the rationalistic critics 
that we have entered a new era1 that the
 ,bible has never been studied until    
within recent years4 ,this is an        
assumption unworthy of scientific       
scholarship4 ,critics who have not      
sought to destroy the ,word of ,god1    
but1 by thorough investigation1 to      
determine its claims1 have been at work 

on the ,scriptures in all the past1     
seeking to know the mind of the ,spirit4
 ,there is1 and ever has been a         
legitimate study of the ,bible4 ,hence1 
there are absolutely no grounds for the 
assumption of the rationalists4 ,the    
,church of ,christ is not opposed to the
 application of the best methods and    
best scholarship in the investigation of
 revealed truth4 ,indeed1 the           
,protestant ,church has ever been the   
mother of the highest education1 and has
 had an open ear to the call of         
,god--,come1 let us reason together4    
,it is well to understand that the      
poorly-concealed purpose of the school  
of higher critics is not to press the   
just and holy claims of ,god's ,word on 
the human conscience1 but to eliminate  
the supernatural from it4 ,the          
,christian ,church should understand    
this4 ,if atheistic scientists can      
construct a universe without ,god1 by   
evolutionary processes1 and the critics 
can construct a ,bible without the      

supernatural1 the wisdom of this world  
will have pretty thoroughly disposed of 
,god4  ,in the attitude of the ,church  
toward destructive criticism1 sometimes 
called historical1 or constructive1 we  
must not fail to discover its bearing on
 the character of ,christ4 ,for the     
final conflict of all skepticism of     
every grade and quality is in reference 
to the person and work of ,christ4 ,the 
elimination of the supernatural from the
 ,bible would be an invalidation of     
,christ's claims and testimony4 ,it     
would place him before the world as a   
false teacher1 a fraud1 a charlatan4    
,loyalty to the ,word1 and to the       
,incarnate ,word1 demands1 therefore1   
that we should clearly understand the   
end to which this rationalism is        
drifting4 ,for ,christ's testimony      
concerning the ,old ,testament          
,scriptures1 which will be presented    
later in this discussion1 is so         
thoroughly in conflict with the modern  
critical assumptions that it must be    

disposed of by those claiming expert    
scholarship4 ,in the attempt to         
accomplish that feat1 they put our ,lord
 under such limitations as would rob him
 of his character as ,teacher and       
,redeemer4  ,the experts are logically  
driven to one of two conclusions3 either
 that ,christ did not know the facts of 
the ,old ,testament ,scriptures1 which  
he believed and was sent to teach1 or1  
knowing the facts1 he deemed it not     
important to teach them4  ,the first    
assumption puts our ,savior on the basis
 of a fallible human teacher1 and       
nothing more4 ,the second assumption    
contradicts all the professions of the  
critics4 ,for they affirm to-day that   
the professed discoveries of the        
mistaken views of the ,bible are of the 
utmost importance1 and as honest men    
they are in conscience obliged to make  
them known1 while claiming that ,christ 
did not make them known4  ,shall we     
assume that these views1 which they deem
 so important to-day1 were of no        

importance when the ,church of ,christ  
first took form8 ,we may ask1 what      
estimate should we have of ,christ1 who1
 knowing his people were in error as to 
the authorship and origin of the        
,scriptures1 would leave them in        
darkness for more than eighteen hundred 
years8 ,is it to be assumed that he     
would wait through the long centuries   
for the coming of critics to enlighten  
his people8 ,that is what we are        
logically asked to accept at their      
hands4 ,it is thus made clear that the  
issue of this conflict1 as in all the   
past1 is narrowed down to the person and
 character of our ,savior4 ,it is well  
to face the issue calmly1 and with a    
clear understanding of what is pending4 
,did ,christ know truth8 ,was he honest8
 ,hence1 the attitude of the ,church    
should be taken in view of the trend of 
modern critical discussion4     ,,ii4   
,,should ,,reply ,,be ,,made8  ,if the  
foundations be destroyed1 what can the  
righteous do8 ,psa4 xi4 #c4  ,prove all 

things2 hold fast that which is good4 #a
 ,thess4 v4 #ba4  ,buy the truth and    
sell it not4 ,prov4 xxiii4 #bc4         
,beloved1 when ,i gave all diligence to 
write unto you of the common salvation1 
it was needful for me to write unto you 
and exhort you that you should earnestly
 contend for the faith that was once    
delivered unto the saints4 ,jude #c4    
,therefore1 brethren1 stand fast1 and   
hold the traditions which ye have been  
taught1 whether by word or our epistle4 
#b ,thess4 ii4 #ae4  ,i am set for the  
defense of the gospel4 ,paul1 ,phil4 i4 
#ag4   ,it is a question among earnest  
,christian men1 who are busily engaged  
in the work of the ,master1 as to       
whether we should turn aside long enough
 to make reply to the destructive       
critics4 ,it is affirmed that1 as the   
,word of ,god has already passed through
 all the attacks that have been made    
upon it1 it will defend itself in the   
future as in the past--that our duty is 
to preach the gospel4 ,certainly the    

victories of the gospel are a noble     
defense of its truth and power to save4 
,there should be no respite from this   
work4 ,but there are vast multitudes of 
people that permit the critics to do    
their thinking for them4 ,they are not  
well informed concerning the            
,scriptures1 and consequently are not   
prepared to repel the attacks of        
skepticism1 nor to reply to the specious
 arguments or positive assumptions of   
the critics4 ,these multitudes are in   
danger of casting aside the ,word of    
,god1 and missing the offer of eternal  
life4  ,the fact of the increased       
activity of the enemies of the truth    
must be known to ,christian people4     
,their organized and persistent use of  
the press has gained for them a wide    
hearing4 ,shall the ,christian people   
deny themselves this instrumentality of 
getting a hearing for ,god and his truth
 before the world8 ,would not silence be
 construed by the world as meaning that 
the cause dear to the heart of ,god's   

people is indefensible8  ,it should be  
known to all lovers of the truth that   
the skepticism widely sown by the       
destructive critics has entered the     
,protestant ,church and many of our     
institutions of learning4  ,read the    
utterances of representative men and    
teachers in her communion1 who deny the 
,incarnation1 repudiate vicarious       
sacrifice1 make light of the story of   
the resurrection1 and refine the risen  
,son of ,god into nothing more than the 
spirit and essence of truth2 or1 at     
most1 the disembodied ghost of a man who
 called himself a ,messiah1 mistaken in 
his claims1 but authoritative in his    
morals4 7,rev4 ,i4,m4 ,holdeman47  ,the 
author of this statement refers also to 
the fact that there are modern          
professors of theology who convict the  
very prophets whom they hold up as      
exemplars of righteousness1 of absolute 
literary fraud1 and deliberate piracy4  
,they demonstrate with cool precision   
that the higher critics of to-day are   

better informed concerning the mistakes 
of ,moses than was he who claimed that  
,moses wrote of him1 and prove to their 
own satisfaction and the belief of many 
followers that ,jesus ,christ1 our      
,lord1 was limited in intelligence1 and 
would1 if he were here to-day1 deny some
 of the statements he once so           
unqualifiedly made4  ,we may not shut   
our eyes to the fact that many of our   
colleges are more or less infected with 
this rationalistic criticism4 ,some of  
our theological professors have         
substituted the theory of evolution for 
the ,scriptural doctrine of creation by 
the ,word of ,god4 ,our young men       
preparing for the work of the ministry  
are under the influence and instruction 
of some of these teachers here in our   
own country4  ,it is a matter for       
thanksgiving that we have literary and  
theological institutions into which the 
destructive critics have never          
entered--institutions that stand for the
 ,word of ,god as given by the ,holy    

,spirit1 and believed in by ,god's      
servants in the past and to-day4  ,we do
 well to recognize the further fact     
concerning the effort to eliminate the  
supernatural from the ,bible1 that the  
work of the rationalists has permeated  
the literature of the day4 ,in this age 
of reading fiction1 that form of        
literature has become a convenient      
vehicle for taking everything out of the
 hands of ,providence4 ,it has become   
easy to leave ,god out of his universe  
and supplant him with the heroic in man4
 ,hence1 the literary appetite1 ever    
craving the human instead of the divine1
 turns away from the truth that         
confronts the conscience of the reader  
with ,god and his claims4  ,for the     
defense of truth we have the example of 
prophets1 apostles1 and ,christ himself4
 ,much of the work of the prophets of   
the ,old ,testament was devoted to the  
exposure of the ,new ,thought of their  
times4 ,moses dealt thoroughly with the 
new theology that asserted3 ,these be   

thy gods1 ,o ,israel1 which brought thee
 up out of the land of ,egypt4 ,the     
heresy was ended as suddenly as it was  
introduced4  ,the ,epistle to the       
,galatians was ,paul's reply to the     
,judiazing teachers who would substitute
 ceremonials for the doctrine of        
justification by faith4 ,his ,epistle to
 the ,ephesians was a constructive work1
 in answer to ,jewish prejudice and     
teaching1 in which he set forth the     
unity of ,jews and ,gentiles in one     
,church1 which is the body of ,christ4  
,in his ,epistle to the ,corinthians he 
answered their false views of marriage4 
,he shamed their partisan spirit1 in    
which some claimed to be of ,paul1 some 
of ,apollos1 some of ,christ4 ,he       
labored most earnestly to convince them 
of their false views concerning the     
resurrection1 and dealt faithfully with 
the errorists concerning the inquiry    
that was coming to the ,church through  
their magnifying and perverting the use 
of the gift of tongues4 ,he showed them 

a more excellent way4  ,there should be 
no turning aside from preaching a full  
and free gospel1 nor should there be any
 halting in its defense1 or against the 
effort to eliminate the supernatural    
from the ,word of ,god4 ,the critical   
work that logically leaves us a ,savior 
ignorant of the ,scriptures1 or1 if     
knowing them1 afraid to meet ,jewish    
prejudice by correcting their mistakes1 
should be kindly1 candidly1 and manfully
 met by those to whom the truth has     
given life4     ,,iii4 ,,was ,,moses ,a 
,,literary ,,fiction8  ,god called unto 
him out of the midst of the bush1 and   
said1 ,moses1 ,moses4 ,and he said1     
,here am ,i4444 ,come now1 therefore1   
and ,i will send thee unto ,pharaoh1    
that thou mayest bring forth my people1 
the children of ,israel1 out of ,egypt6'
 ,exod4 iii4 #d1 #aj4  ,and afterward   
,moses and ,aaron went in and told      
,pharaoh1 ,thus saith the ,lord ,god of 
,israel1 ,let my people go4 ,exod4 v4   
#a4  ,moses called for all the elders of

 ,israel1 and said unto them1 ,draw out 
and take you a lamb according to your   
families1 and kill the passover4444 ,and
 the children of ,israel did according  
to the word of ,moses4444 ,and the      
children of ,israel journeyed from      
,rameses to ,succoth1 about six hundred 
thousand on foot that were men1 besides 
children ,exod4 xii4 #ba1 #ce1 #cg4     
,and the ,lord said unto ,moses1 ,write 
thou these words3 for after the tenor of
 these words ,i have made a covenant    
with thee and with ,israel4 ,exod4      
xxxiv4 #bg4  ,and it came to pass1 when 
,moses had made an end of writing the   
words of this law in a book1 until they 
were finished1 that ,moses commanded the
 ,levites1 which bare the ark of the    
covenant of the ,lord1 saying1 ,take    
this book of the law and put it in the  
side of the ark of the covenant of the  
,lord your ,god1 that it may be there   
for a witness against thee ,deut4 xxxi4 
#bd-bf4   ,we turn now to the assumption
 that ,moses was not the author1 under  

,god1 of the ,pentateuch4 ,the          
destructive critics do not agree among  
themselves as to the origin of the      
,pentateuch4 ,dates and authors are     
variously adjusted among those claiming 
to be experts4 ,there is1 however1      
agreement on one point1 that ,moses did 
not write the ,pentateuch4 ,it is       
affirmed that his name has been attached
 to it to give it authority1 because    
many of the events recorded and much of 
the history took place during the period
 of ,moses' life and in connection with 
his influence4 ,but the critics place   
the record of those events almost       
altogether after the exile1 between nine
 hundred and a thousand years after the 
time of ,moses4  ,it was once affirmed  
that writing was not used in the days of
 ,moses1 and therefore he could not have
 written the five books that claim him  
as their author4 ,but the fact now      
brought to light1 and conceded by the   
critics and all well-informed scholars1 
that writing antedated ,moses by many   

centuries1 has swept out of existence   
that objection4 ,but the question is    
still raised as to the ,mosiac          
authorship of the ,pentateuch4 ,it is   
said in reply3  ,first--,the ,holy      
,spirit declares by the mouth of        
,stephen that ,moses was learned in all 
the wisdom of the ,egyptians1 and was   
mighty in words and deeds4 ,acts vii4   
#bb4  ,writing was long known to and    
practiced by the ,egyptians1 hence the  
man trained in all the wisdom of the    
,egyptians was competent to write the   
,pentateuch4  ,second--,the ,pentateuch 
very definitely claims ,moses as its    
author1 not once or twice1 but many     
times1 all through these writings4  ,the
 ,lord said unto ,moses1 ,write this for
 a memorial in a book1 and rehearse it  
in the ears of ,joshua1 for ,i will     
utterly put out the remembrance of      
,amalek from under heaven4 ,exod4 xvii4 
#ad4 ,this was not the law1 parts of    
which even some of the critics concede  
that ,moses wrote4 ,it was ,god's       

judgment against ,amalek4 ,but it was   
written in a book4 ,what book8 ,the     
inspired ,scriptures say it was written 
here in ,exodus xvii4 #ad4 ,and again it
 was repeated in ,deut4 xxv4 #ai1 and   
that ,moses wrote it4  ,in the          
twenty-fourth chapter of ,exodus ,moses 
has given an account of ,god's call to  
him1 to ,aaron1 ,nadab1 ,abihu1 and the 
seventy elders1 to come up to ,horeb4   
,moses was called into the immediate    
presence of ,god1 while the others      
remained at a distance4 ,after his      
interview with ,jehovah it is written3  
,moses came and told the people all the 
words of the ,lord4444 ,and ,moses wrote
 all the words of the ,lord4 ,exod4     
xxiv1 #c1 #d4  ,in the thirty-fourth    
chapter of ,exodus ,god is represented  
as giving definite instructions to      
,moses concerning worship1 at the       
conclusion of which the ,lord said unto 
,moses1 ,write thou these words1 for    
after the tenor of these words ,i have  
made a covenant with thee and with      

,israel4 ,exod4 xxxiv4 #bg4  ,we turn to
 the positive statement in ,deuteronomy 
xxxi4 #i4 ,the chapter opens with the   
declaration that ,moses spake these     
words unto all ,israel1 giving an       
extended account of what the words were4
 ,in the ninth verse it is stated3 444  
,and ,moses wrote this law and delivered
 it unto the priests and unto all the   
elders of ,israel4 ,what became of that 
writing of ,moses8 ,was it lost8 ,or is 
the statement false8 ,and did some later
 writer forge the statement1 attributing
 the writing to ,moses1 to give weight  
and authority to the forgery8 ,to ask   
the question is to answer it4 ,moses    
wrote all the words of the ,lord4  ,in  
the twenty-fourth verse in this same    
chapter in ,deuteronomy it is stated    
that ,moses had made an end of writing  
the words of this law in a book4 ,yet   
the critics teach that this book1       
,deuteronomy1 was not written until     
after the exile1 almost a thousand years
 after the events narrated4 ,does not   

critical credulity make larger demands  
than are laid on faith8  ,the summing up
 of the book of ,numbers1 of what had   
been said and written in the book1 is   
stated in the last chapter and last     
verse1 namely1 that these are the       
commandments and the judgments which the
 ,lord commanded by the hand of ,moses  
unto the children of ,israel4 ,again and
 again it is affirmed in the ,pentateuch
 that ,god commanded ,moses to write1   
and that he did write1 but the critics  
affirm that the hand of ,moses had      
nothing to do with producing the books  
of the ,pentateuch--that they were      
written after the exile6  ,not only does
 the ,pentateuch distinctly teach the   
,mosaic authorship of the five books of 
,moses1 appropriately so called1 but all
 the ,old ,testament saints entertained 
the opinion which the ,jewish people and
 the ,christian ,church hold to-day1    
that ,god spake to ,moses1 and that     
,moses committed to writing the messages
 that ,god gave him and commanded him to

 write1 embracing the story of ,god's   
miracles1 his instruction and dealing   
with them in the wilderness4  ,we find  
the critics contradicted in the         
,scriptures from ,joshua to ,malachi4   
,to ,joshua ,god said3 ,as ,i was with  
,moses1 so will ,i be with thee4        
7,joshua i4 #e47 ,eight times in the    
first chapter of the book of ,joshua    
,god accredits ,moses with having       
received and having given the law to    
,joshua and the people4  ,the           
,pentateuch is the book which ,god1     
speaking to ,joshua1 calls the law which
 my servant ,moses commanded thee       
7,joshua i4 #g71 and it was so accepted 
by ,joshua4 ,was he mistaken8 or the    
critics8 ,he had long enjoyed most      
intimate relations with ,moses1 and knew
 what ,moses had written by the command 
of ,god4  ,david affirms that ,god had  
made known his ways unto ,moses1 and his
 acts unto the children of ,israel      
7,psa4 ciii4 #g74 ,we have seen that the
 man ,moses was competent to write1 and 

did write1 what ,god had made known to  
him 7,deut xxxi4 #bd74 ,the ,psalms are 
illuminated and set aflame with the     
faith of ,israel1 that ,moses said and  
wrote what is ascribed to him in the    
,pentateuch4  ,ezra1 ,nehemiah1 and the 
prophets down to ,malachi reiterated the
 same belief1 sung and taught it to     
their children4 ,were they mistaken8    
,the finding of the ,pentateuch during  
,josiah's reign1 which had been lost in 
the rubbish of the temple during the    
wicked reign of ,manasseh and ,ammon1 is
 evidently referred to in #b ,chron4    
xxxiv4 #ad1 #ae2 ,hilkiah the priest    
found the book of the law of ,jehovah by
 the hand of ,moses4 7,margin1 ,r4,v47  
,and ,hilkiah answered and said to      
,shaphan1 ,i have found ,the ,book of   
the law of the house of the ,lord4 ,four
 times within seven verses it is called 
,the ,book4 ,it was read before the     
,king1 who humbled himself1 and prepared
 himself and the people to observe the  
,passover as it had been prescribed in  

the law of ,moses4 ,josiah commanded    
them to kill the ,passover1 and sanctify
 yourselves and prepare your brethren1  
that they may do according to the word  
of the ,lord by the hand of ,moses 7#b  
,chron4 xxxv4 #f74 ,this took place long
 before the exile1 which the critics    
insist was the beginning of ,israel's   
literature1 and after which they say the
 ,pentateuch was written4  ,ezra        
testifies to the existence of the       
,mosaic law before his time4 ,his       
testimony establishes the ,mosaic       
authorship of the ,pentateuch4 ,ezra    
vii4 #f3 ,this ,ezra 444 was a ready    
scribe in the law of ,moses4  ,after the
 return from captivity ,ezra describes  
the building of the altar in these      
definite terms3 ,then stood up ,joshua1 
the son of ,jozadak1 and his brethren   
the priests1 and ,zerubbabel the son of 
,shealtiel1 and his brethren1 and       
builded the altar of the ,god of        
,israel1 to offer burnt offerings       
thereon1 as it is written in the law of 

,moses1 the man of ,god 7,ezra iii4 #b74
 ,was ,ezra deceiving the people8       
,there are several things to be noted   
here3  #a4 ,there was a written law of  
,moses1 the man of ,god1 then in        
existence4 ,it was not a written law of 
,ezra which the priests palmed off as   
the written law of ,moses4  #b4 ,there  
was a priestly order1 according to the  
written law of ,moses the man of ,god1  
not according to the invention of the   
exiles returning from captivity1 under  
the pretense that ,moses wrote it4  #c4 
,the altar was built according to the   
written law of ,moses the man of ,god4  
,these records by ,ezra effectually bar 
the door against the critical conjecture
 that the ,pentateuch1 in which the     
written law of ,moses the man of ,god is
 found1 was fabricated after the exile4 
,the definite law for the place of      
building the altar1 by which the priests
 proceeded in the days of ,ezra1 is     
recorded by ,moses the man of ,god1 in  
,deut4 xii4 #e-g3 ,unto the place which 

the ,lord your ,god shall choose out of 
all your tribes to put his name there1  
even unto his habitation shall ye seek1 
and thither shalt thou come2 and thither
 shall ye bring your burnt offerings1   
and your sacrifices and your tithes and 
heave offerings of your hand1 and your  
vows1 and your freewill offerings1 and  
the firstlings of your herds1 and your  
flocks2 and there ye shall eat before   
the ,lord your ,god1 and ye shall       
rejoice in all that ye put your hand    
unto1 ye and your households1 wherein   
the ,lord thy ,god hath blessed thee4   
,it is ,ezra1 not the critics1 who      
informs us that this was written in the 
law of ,moses the man of ,god4 ,we will 
be pardoned for accepting the testimony 
of ,ezra4 ,he does not mean to forsake  
his faith in the ,mosaic authorship of  
the ,pentateuch1 for he writes in       
chapter vi4 #ah3 ,they set the priests  
in their divisions1 and the ,levites in 
their courses1 for the service of ,god1 
which is at ,jerusalem2 as it is written

 in the book of ,moses4  ,in the eighth 
chapter of the book of ,nehemiah1 that  
great servant of ,god affirms his faith 
in the ,mosaic authorship of the        
,pentateuch1 which was also the faith of
 all the people of his time4 ,in the    
first verse in this chapter he informs  
us that all the people gathered         
themselves together1 as one man1 into   
the street that is before the water     
gate1 and they spake unto ,ezra the     
scribe to bring the book of the law of  
,moses1 which the ,lord had commanded to
 ,israel4 ,ezra was not to make a book  
and call it the book of ,moses1 as some 
of the critics teach1 but to bring the  
book of the law of ,moses1 a book in    
their possession already made1 and with 
which they were already familiar--,the  
,book of the ,law of ,moses4  ,the ,book
 of the ,law of ,moses was the ,jewish  
title given to the ,pentateuch at that  
time1 and is so recognized again and    
again4 ,nehemiah viii4 #ad affirms      
again3 ,they found written in the law1  

which the ,lord had commanded by ,moses1
 that the children of ,israel should    
dwell in booths in the feast of the     
seventh month4 ,nehemiah quotes this    
command of the ,lord by ,moses from     
,lev4 xxiii4 #ci-db1 which was a fraud  
on the part of ,nehemiah1 if ,moses was 
not the author of the book4 ,again he   
says in the thirteenth chapter of       
,nehemiah and first verse3 ,on that day 
they read in the book of ,moses1 in the 
audience of the people2 but it was not  
the book of ,moses if he had not written
 it1 but the book of another one of the 
unknown so frequently found 787 in      
,scripture by our critics4  ,the book of
 ,moses in which this last reference    
from ,nehemiah is written is the command
 that the ,ammonite and the ,moabite    
should not come into the congregation of
 ,god for ever1 and is recorded in      
,deut4 xxiii4 #c1 #d4  ,but our critical
 friends inform us that ,deuteronomy was
 not written until after the captivity4 
,hence1 the logic of their position is1 

that ,nehemiah attributes to ,moses what
 he did not write1 and proves himself to
 be either ignorant of the truth or     
practicing a fraud upon the people4 ,we 
prefer the testimony of ,nehemiah to    
that of the latter-day critics4  ,it    
should be repeated that the prophets and
 inspired writers down to ,malachi      
reiterated their confidence in the      
,mosaic authorship of the ,pentateuch4  
,and he1 the last messenger of the ,old 
,testament to ,israel1 gave them this   
message from ,god3 ,remember ye the law 
of ,moses my servant1 which ,i commanded
 unto him 7,mal4 iv4 #d74 ,indeed1 the  
entire testimony of the ,old ,testament 
is in harmony with the positive         
statements made in the ,pentateuch1 that
 ,moses was commanded to write1 and that
 he actually and positively wrote all   
the words of the ,lord 7,exod4 xxiv4    
#d74 ,there is not a word1 syllable1    
hint1 or shadow of a hint assigning     
these five books of ,moses to a later   
date or author4  ,the presumption1 or   

guess1 of the critics carries no weight 
in the face of the testimony of the     
entire ,old ,testament that ,god        
commanded ,moses to write1 and that he  
did write1 the five books attributed to 
him4     ,,iv4 ,,were ,,christ ,,and    
,,the ,,apostles ,,mistaken8  ,christ   
said to his apostles3  ,ye shall be     
witnesses unto me1 both in ,jerusalem1  
and in all ,judea1 and in ,samaria1 and 
unto the uttermost parts of the earth4  
,acts i4 #h4  ,i speak the truth in     
,christ and lie not4 ,paul in #a ,tim4  
ii4 #g4  ,jesus ,christ1 who is the     
faithful witness and the first begotten 
of the dead1 and the ,prince of the     
kings of the earth4 ,the ,apostle ,john 
in ,rev4 i4 #e4  ,we know that thou art 
a teacher come from ,god1 for no man can
 do these miracles that thou doest1     
except ,god be with him1 ,nicodemus1 in 
,john iii4 #b4  ,if ,i say the truth1   
why do ye not believe me8 ,christ1 in   
,john viii4 #df4  ,i am the way1 the    
truth and the life4 ,christ1 in ,john   

xiv4 #f4   ,the opinions and testimony  
of the apostles are certainly worth     
something4 ,they had three years of     
instruction under our ,lord1 and the    
promise from him that the ,holy ,spirit 
should guide them into all truth4 7,john
 xvi4 #ac47  ,a study of the writers of 
the ,new ,testament proves that they are
 in absolute harmony with the writers of
 the ,old ,testament as to the ,mosaic  
authorship of the five books of the     
,pentateuch4 ,luke ii4 #bb informs us   
that the mother of ,jesus1 when the days
 of her purification were accomplished  
according to the law of ,moses1 brought 
the child to present him to the ,lord4  
,this was done1 according to ,leviticus 
xii4 #b-f1 and accredits that book to   
,moses1 and not to some imaginary       
author4  ,the ,apostle ,john informs us 
that the law was given by ,moses1 but   
grace and truth came by ,jesus ,christ  
7,john i1 #ag74 ,if he has misled us in 
reference to ,moses and the law1 can we 
trust him in reference to grace and     

truth by ,jesus ,christ8  ,when ,peter  
made his address to the people who were 
surprised at the healing of the cripple1
 he said3 ,moses truly said unto the    
fathers1 ,a prophet shall the ,lord your
 ,god raise up unto you of your         
brethren1 7,see ,acts iii4 #bb47  ,this 
saying of ,moses is recorded in ,deut   
xviii4 #ae1 the contents of which book  
are introduced to us in these words2    
,these be the words which ,moses spake  
unto all ,israel on this side ,jordan in
 the wilderness1 in the plain over      
against the ,red ,sea 7,deut4 i4 #a71   
referring to the whole books spoken by  
,moses1 the learned man1 mighty in words
 and deeds1 but not recorded1 the       
critics say1 until after the exile1     
about a thousand years6 ,this you are   
asked to believe on the basis of the    
professed or assumed acumen of the      
critics6  ,further1 in his great speech 
before the ,sanhedrim at his martyrdom1 
,stephen quotes ,moses as having        
received full and complete directions   

from ,god concerning the tabernacle4    
7,acts vii4 #dd47 ,in the twenty-fifth  
chapter of ,exodus1 the book in which   
,moses was commanded to write and did   
write1 these directions are recorded4   
,we accept ,stephen's testimony1 added  
to that of ,exod4 xxv41 rather than the 
testimony of the critics4  ,when ,paul  
was writing to the ,corinthians of the  
blindness of the ,jews 7#b ,cor4 iii4   
#ae7 he said3 ,even unto this day1 when 
,moses is read1 the veil is upon their  
hearts4  ,moses must have written       
something if he was read4 ,what has     
become of his writings8 ,is it not the  
,pentateuch which the ,scriptures       
everywhere call the writings of ,moses8 
,undoubtedly1 yes4  ,in ,paul's         
missionary sermon at ,antioch in        
,pisidia1 he declared to his audience   
that through ,christ all that believe   
are justified from all things1 from     
which ye could not be justified by the  
law of ,moses 7,acts xiii4 #ci74  ,why  
does ,paul refer to the ceremonial of   

the ,jewish ritual as the law of ,moses8
 ,it must be answered that ,paul was a  
,jew4 ,he was familiar with the ,jewish 
scriptures4 ,he had read the following  
passages and believed them1 and was     
grounded in the truth which they        
declare1 that by the hand of ,moses they
 were given to the people4  ,to satisfy 
the reader that they were given by the  
hand of ,moses the following ,scriptures
 are furnished3  #a4 ,aaron and his sons
 did all things which were commanded by 
the hand of ,moses4 7,lev4 viii4 #cf47  
#b4 ,that ye may teach the children of  
,israel all the statutes which the ,lord
 hath spoken unto them by the hand of   
,moses4 7,lev4 x4 #aa47  #c4 ,these are 
the statutes and judgments and laws     
which the ,lord made between him and the
 children of ,israel in ,mount ,sinai1  
by the hand of ,moses4 7,lev4 xxvi4     
#df47  #d4 ,these were they that were   
numbered of the families of the         
,kohathites1 all that might do service  
in the tabernacle of the congregation1  

which ,moses and ,aaron did number1     
according to the commandment of the     
,lord by the hand of ,moses4 7,num4 iv4 
#cg47  #e4 ,these 444 whom ,moses and   
,aaron numbered1 according to the word  
of the ,lord by the hand of ,moses4     
7,num4 iv4 #de47  #f4 ,according to the 
commandment of the ,lord they were      
numbered by the hand of ,moses4 7,num4  
iv4 #di47  #g4 ,they kept the charge of 
the ,lord1 at the commandment of the    
,lord1 by the hand of ,moses4 7,num4 ix4
 #bc47  #h4 ,and they first took their  
journey according to the commandment of 
the ,lord by the hand of ,moses4 7,num4 
x4 #ac47  #i4 ,even all that the ,lord  
hath commanded you by the hand of       
,moses1 from the day that the ,lord     
commanded ,moses4 7,num4 xv4 #bc47  #aj4
 ,that no stranger1 which is not of the 
seed of ,aaron1 come near to offer      
incense before the ,lord1 that he be not
 as ,kora and his company1 as the ,lord 
said to him by the hand of ,moses4      
7,num4 xvi4 #dj47  #aa4 ,and he laid his

 hands upon him1 and gave him a charge1 
as the ,lord commanded by the hand of   
,moses4 7,num4 xxvii4 #bc47  #ab4 ,these
 are the commandments and the judgments 
which the ,lord commanded by the hand of
 ,moses4 7,num4 xxxvi4 #ac47  #ac4 ,by  
lot was their inheritance1 as the ,lord 
commanded by the hand of ,moses4        
7,joshua xiv4 #b47  #ad4 ,speak unto the
 children of ,israel1 saying1 ,appoint  
out for you cities of refuge1 whereof ,i
 spake unto you by the hand of ,moses4  
7,joshua xx4 #b47  #ae4 ,the ,lord      
commanded by the hand of ,moses to give 
us cities to dwell in1 with the suburbs 
thereof for our cattle4 7,joshua xxi4   
#b47  #af4 ,and the children of ,israel 
gave by lot unto the ,levites these     
cities with their suburbs1 as the ,lord 
commanded by the hand of ,moses4        
7,joshua xxi4 #h47  #ag4 ,and the       
children of ,reuben1 and the children of
 ,gad1 and the half tribe of ,manasseh  
returned1 444 according to the word of  
the ,lord by the hand of ,moses4        

7,joshua xxii4 #i47  #ah4 ,and they were
 to prove ,israel by them1 to know      
whether they would hearken unto the     
commandments of the ,lord1 which he     
commanded their fathers by the hand of  
,moses4 7,judges iii4 #d47  #ai4 ,thou  
didst separate them from among all the  
people of the earth1 to be thine        
inheritance1 as thou spakest by the hand
 of ,moses1 thy servant4 7#a ,kings     
viii4 #ec47  #bj4 ,there hath not failed
 one word of all his good promise1 which
 he promised by the hand of ,moses his  
servant4 7#a ,kings viii4 #ef47  #ba4   
,so that they will take heed to do all  
that ,i have commanded them1 according  
to the whole law and the statutes and   
the ordinances by the hand of ,moses4   
7#b ,chron4 xxxiii4 #h47  #bb4 ,to kill 
the passover1 and sanctify yourselves1  
and prepare your brethren1 that they may
 do according to the word of the ,lord1 
by the hand of ,moses4 7#b ,chron4 xxxv4
 #f47  #bc4 ,thou 444 madest known unto 
them thy holy ,sabbath1 and commandedst 

unto them precepts1 statutes and laws1  
by the hand of ,moses thy servant4      
7,neh4 ix4 #ad47  #bd4 ,thou leddest thy
 people like a flock by the hand of     
,moses and ,aaron4 7,psa4 lxxvii4 #bj47 
,paul was familiar with these statements
 of the ,jewish ,scriptures4 ,he        
believed them4 7#b ,cor4 iv4 #ac47 ,he  
believed that ,god gave the whole law   
and the statutes and the ordinances by  
the hand of ,moses 7#b ,chron4 xxxiii4  
#h71 who was learned in all the wisdom  
of the ,egyptians1 and was mighty in    
words and deeds4 7,acts vii4 #bb47      
,hence he called the ,scriptures ,the   
,law of ,moses4  ,some of the critics   
will concede that many things were done 
by ,moses1 but not recorded until after 
the exile4 ,think of it6 ,the laws1     
statutes1 and ordinances which were     
vital to the life of the ,jewish nation1
 which had been given at ,sinai1 and    
were announced with the sanctions of    
life or death1 were not recorded by     
,god's appointed leader1 whom he had    

trained in all the learning of the      
times1 but were left for almost a       
thousand years to uncertain tradition6  
,paul had not forgotten the above       
statements concerning ,moses' personal  
connection with the giving of the law4  
,before ,felix he was arraigned1 and    
testified what the prophets and ,moses  
did say4 7,acts xxvi4 #bb47  ,to the    
,jews at ,rome he expounded and         
testified the kingdom of ,god1          
persuading them concerning ,jesus1 both 
out of the laws of ,moses and out of the
 prophets4 7,acts xxviii4 #bc47  ,in his
 ,epistle to the ,roman ,christians he  
says 7quoting from ,lev4 xviii4 #e73    
,for ,moses writeth that the man that   
doeth the righteousness which is of the 
law shall live thereby4 7,rom4 x4 #e1   
,r4,v47  ,to the ,corinthian ,christians
 he says3 ,it is written in the law of  
,moses4 ,thou shalt not muzzle the mouth
 of the ox when he treadeth out the     
corn4 7#a ,cor4 ix4 #i47 ,here again he 
quotes from ,deut4 xxv4 #d1 and repeats 

the quotation in #a ,tim4 v4 #ah4 ,but  
the critics deny that it was written    
until after the exile1 at least nine    
hundred or one thousand years later4    
,the ,apostle ,james adds his testimony 
to that of ,paul1 while addressing the  
assembly of the apostles at ,jerusalem1 
saying3 ,for ,moses of old time hath in 
every city them that preach him1 being  
read in the synagogues every ,sabbath4  
7,acts xv4 #ba47  ,we have learned in   
these quotations from ,matthew1 ,luke1  
,john1 ,stephen1 ,peter1 and ,paul1     
their repeated testimony1 their         
unvarying faith that ,moses both spoke  
and wrote the scriptures contained in   
the ,pentateuch4 ,we have seen that     
their faith was founded on twenty-four  
inspired declarations that these five   
books were given by the hand of ,moses4 
,these statements are found in the books
 themselves1 from ,leviticus to the     
,psalms4 ,if inspired testimony is worth
 anything1 the case is closed1 and the  
critics' case goes out of court1 more   

than disproved4   ,,was ,,christ        
,,mistaken8   ,the reader will be       
interested to know what ,christ has to  
say of the critics' denial of the       
,mosaic authorship of the ,pentateuch4  
,for he who spake as never man spake1 he
 of whom the ,father said1 ,this is my  
beloved ,son1 in whom ,i am well        
pleased1 hear ye him1 this same ,jesus  
had some very positive opinions on the  
subject before us4 ,he has spoken       
clearly and definitely4 ,we may not turn
 away from his testimony4  #a4 ,after   
healing the leper1 our ,lord said to    
him3 ,go thy way1 show thyself to the   
priest1 and offer the gift that ,moses  
commanded for a testimony unto them4    
7,see ,matt4 viii4 #d1 ,mark i4 #dd1    
,luke v4 #ad47  ,our ,savior here quotes
 from ,lev4 xiv4 #b-h4 ,moses had been  
commanded to write the words that ,god  
had given him4 7,exod4 xxxiv4 #bg47 ,and
 ,moses wrote all the words of the ,lord
 7,exod4 xxiv4 #d71 hence our ,lord     
quotes the passage in ,leviticus from   

,moses4  #b4 ,the ,pharisees1 always    
captious and controversial1 sought to   
entangle the ,savior in a discussion on 
the subject of divorce4 ,replying1 ,he  
saith unto them1 ,moses1 because of the 
hardness of your hearts1 suffered you to
 put away your wives4 7,matt4 xix4 #h47 
,our ,lord here quotes from the ,mosaic 
law 7,deut4 xxiv4 ,i-#d71 recognizing   
,moses as the author of the same4  #c4  
,he rebuked the scribes and ,pharisees  
also for turning from the word of ,god  
to the traditions of men4 ,for ,moses   
said1 ,honor thy father and thy mother4 
7,mark vii4 #aj47 ,this quotation is    
from ,exod4 xx4 #ab1 and ,deut4 v4 #af4 
,they had made the command of ,moses of 
no effect1 had violated the law which   
,christ taught had been given by ,moses4
  #d4 ,the ,sadducees came to him with  
their controversy concerning the        
resurrection4 ,they presented to him an 
unanswerable argument1 as they supposed1
 against the doctrine1 questioning as to
 whose wife she should be in the        

resurrection1 who has had seven husbands
 in this life4 ,christ replied 7,mark   
xii4 #bf1 #bg73 ,as touching the dead1  
that they rise2 have ye not read in the 
book of ,moses how in the bush ,god     
spake unto him1 saying1 ,i am the ,god  
of ,abraham1 and the ,god of ,isaac1 and
 the ,god of ,jacob8 ,he is not the ,god
 of the dead1 but the ,god of the       
living4  ,this quotation by our ,lord is
 from ,exod4 iii4 #f1 and he calls the  
book from which it is made the book of  
,moses4 ,did ,christ know whether it was
 the book of ,moses or of some unknown  
author who had so artfully palmed it off
 under false colors as to deceive the   
entire ,jewish nation8  ,or1 as certain 
of the critics teach1 did ,christ know  
that the pretense that it was the book  
of ,moses was a fraud1 but1 in view of  
public opinion1 was unwilling to expose 
the deception8 ,to ask these questions  
is to uncover the animus of the critical
 assumptions which logically attack the 
character of ,christ himself4  ,christ  

knew who was the author of the book1 and
 knowing1 he affirmed that it was ,the  
,book of ,moses4  #e4 ,in our ,lord's   
parable of the rich man and ,lazarus1   
,dives is represented as pleading that  
some one be sent from the dead to warn  
his brothers1 lest they also come into  
this place of torment4 ,the reply to his
 request was3 ,they have ,moses and the 
prophets4444 ,if they hear not ,moses   
and the prophets1 neither will they be  
persuaded1 though one rose from the     
dead4 7,luke xvi4 #bi1 #cj47 ,moses and 
the prophets was the name for the       
,jewish ,bible4 ,if ,moses did not write
 the ,pentateuch1 the name of their     
,bible was false1 and the ,savior       
indorsed a falsehood4 ,we believe the   
faithful and true ,witness1 and reject  
the critics who dishonor his character4 
#f4 ,after ,christ's resurrection he    
walked and communed with the two        
disciples on the way to ,emmaus4 ,he    
instructed them concerning the          
,messiah's death1 and1 beginning at     

,moses 7,luke xxiv4 #bg71 informed them 
that it was ,god's plan1 foretold in the
 ,old ,testament4 ,he appeared to his   
apostles and declared to them that all  
things must be fulfilled which are      
written in the law of ,moses and the    
prophets4 7,luke xxiv4 #dd47 ,the       
critics deny ,moses' authorship1 but    
,christ affirms it1 using the language  
that means the ,pentateuch4 ,we believe 
him4  #g4 ,in our ,lord's conversation  
with ,nicodemus he recognizes ,moses in 
connection with the book of ,numbers4   
,he refers to the historical incident1  
if our critical friends will leave us   
any ,biblical history1 in ,numbers xxi4 
#h1 #i4 ,he says3 ,as ,moses lifted up  
the serpent in the wilderness1 even so  
must the ,son of man be lifted up1      
7,john iii4 #ad47  ,recurring to the    
passage in ,numbers1 we learn that1 in  
the dire distress of the people for     
their sins1 ,god commanded ,moses to    
make a brazen serpent1 and lift it up   
before the people1 that they might look 

and live4  ,certain of the critical     
school consent that ,moses1 was         
connected with the event1 but did not   
record it4 ,indeed6 ,and what proof that
 he failed to make the record8 ,it was  
personal to himself4 ,it was            
symbolically prophetic of the           
crucifixion of ,christ1 as our ,savior  
used it1 an event toward which all      
prophecy moved4 ,and we have already    
learned that nine times it has been     
stated in the book of ,numbers that the 
acts1 precepts1 and statutes of this    
book were done and given by the hand of 
,moses4  #h4 ,to the ,jews1 seeking to  
murder their ,messiah1 he said2 ,do not 
think that ,i will accuse you to the    
,father2 there is one that accuseth you1
 even ,moses1 in whom ye trust4 ,for had
 ye believed ,moses ye would have       
believed me1 for he wrote of me4 7,see  
,john v4 #de1 #df47  ,when and where did
 he write of ,christ8 ,he wrote of him  
in the five books which are ascribed to 
,moses by all the ,old ,testament       

,scriptures1 and by ,christ and his     
apostles4 ,he wrote of him in ,gen4 iii4
 #ae1 when ,god promised that the seed  
of the woman shall bruise the serpent's 
head4 ,he wrote of ,christ in ,gen4 xii4
 #c1 when ,god promised ,abraham3 ,in   
thee shall all families of the earth be 
blessed4 ,he wrote of the ,messiah when 
he recorded ,jacob's prophecy in ,gen4  
xlix4 #aj3 ,the scepter shall not depart
 from ,judah1 nor a lawgiver from       
between his feet until ,shiloh come4    
,moses wrote of ,christ1 when under     
divine direction he instituted the      
passover1 as recorded in the twelfth    
chapter of ,exodus4  ,he wrote of       
,christ in the ,levitical ritual1 when  
under ,god's instruction he set up the  
system of types1 for the tabernacle and 
the temple service1 which taught the    
fundamentals of the ,new ,testament     
gospel--redemption by the blood4  ,the  
whole tabernacle and its furniture was  
necessary to complete the symbolism that
 should represent the ,messiah4 ,the    

altar1 the laver1 the shew bread1 the   
golden candlestick1 the mercy seat1 and 
the officiating high priest4 ,for ,moses
 was admonished of ,god when he was     
about to make the tabernacle1 and       
received positive direction as to how he
 should construct it1 that redemption   
should echo from every part of the      
service4 ,beautiful and glorious was the
 service that proclaimed ,christ and him
 crucified4 ,christ's testimony here is 
twofold3 ,that ,moses wrote1 and that he
 wrote of me1 of ,christ1 the witness of
 these things4  #i4 ,it was at the feast
 of tabernacles1 in the year #bi ,a4,d41
 that the ,jews attacked the ,savior in 
a fierce controversy1 because he healed 
on the ,sabbath day4 ,he was teaching in
 the temple when they charged him with  
violating the ,sabbath4  ,to that charge
 he replied3 ,did not ,moses give you   
the law8 ,yet none of you keepeth the   
law4 7,see ,john vii4 #ai47 ,he affirms 
in most positive terms1 that can not be 
twisted into the shadow of a negation1  

that ,moses gave them the law4 ,the     
interrogative form of his statement is  
rhetorically the strongest possible     
affirmation4  #aj4 ,once more1 in the   
twenty-third verse of the same chapter1 
,christ refers to the fact that their   
children received circumcision on the   
,sabbath day1 that the law of ,moses be 
not broken4  ,the sum of ,christ's      
testimony to the ,mosaic authorship of  
the ,pentateuch is before us4 ,ten times
 our ,lord asserts in the passages      
quoted that the law given in the        
,pentateuch was the law of ,moses4 ,he  
affirms that in that law he wrote of me4
 ,from ,genesis to ,revelation there is 
continued affirmation by prophets1      
apostles1 and by ,christ1 who can not   
lie1 that the five books of the         
,pentateuch are the books of ,moses1    
under the guiding hand of the ,spirit of
 ,god4  ,a recent writer1 who has gone  
over the testimony of the ,bible itself 
against the critics1 says3 ,we find in  
them 7the writers of the ,old           

,testament7 more than eight hundred     
quotations from1 or references to1 the  
first five books of the ,bible1 and not 
a hint is given that ,moses is not their
 author1 but he is everywhere recognized
 as the author1 under ,god4  ,witnesses 
multiply with every restudy of the book1
 proving the ,mosaic authorship of the  
first five books of ,the ,book4 ,what   
shall we say1 then1 to these things8 ,if
 ,god be for us1 who can be against us8 
,v4 ,,the ,,attack ,,on ,,the ,,book    
,,of ,,leviticus4  ,the ,lord called    
unto ,moses1 and spake unto him out of  
the tabernacle of the congregation1     
saying1 ,speak unto the children of     
,israel and say unto them1 ,if any man  
of you bring an offering1 ye shall bring
 your offering of the cattle1 even of   
the herd and of the flock4 ,lev4 i4 ,i1 
#b4  ,and when any will offer a meat    
offering unto the ,lord1 his offering   
shall be of fine flour1 and he shall    
pour oil upon it1 and put frankincense  
thereon4 ,lev4 ii4 #b4  ,and if his     

oblation be a sacrifice of peace        
offering1 444 he shall lay his hand upon
 the head of his offering1 and kill it  
at the door of the tabernacle of the    
congregation1 and ,aaron's sons the     
priests shall sprinkle the blood upon   
the altar round about1 ,lev4 iii4 #a1   
#b4  ,and the ,lord spake unto ,moses1  
saying1 ,speak unto the children of     
,israel1 saying1 ,if a soul shall sin   
through ignorance against any of the    
commandments of the ,lord concerning    
things which ought not to be done1 444  
let him bring for his sin1 which he hath
 sinned1 a young bullock without blemish
 unto the ,lord for a sin offering4     
,lev4 iv4 #a1 #b1 #c4  ,his truth       
endureth to all generations4 ,psa4 c4   
#e4   ,having considered the critical   
assault on the ,pentateuch as a whole1  
attention should be called to the       
special criticisms on the book of       
,leviticus4 ,a prominent representative 
of the school of critics affirmed in his
 recent lectures at ,long ,beach1       

,california1 that the ,hebrews had no   
literature until their connection with  
the ,babylonians while in captivity1    
that their literature was developed     
during their agricultural life while in 
,babylon4 ,he affirmed that the         
sacrificial ritual of the book of       
,leviticus had its roots in the heathen 
sacrifices growing out of their false   
conception that their deities must be   
appeased by the shedding of blood4 ,the 
,levitical ritual was1 therefore1 never 
written nor given by ,moses4 ,if this   
gentleman and the critics that hold with
 him are correct1 we must conclude with 
them that ,moses never saw or heard of  
our book of ,leviticus4  ,in reply let  
it be said3  #a4 ,the denial of the     
existence of ,hebrew literature prior to
 the exile is thoroughly answered and   
set aside by the records discovered on  
the ,egyptian monuments and writings    
before and during ,israel's bondage4    
,many of the critics have found this    
criticism untenable1 and have abandoned 

it4 ,they have been obliged to concede  
that ,egyptian and ,babylonian          
literature existed long before the time 
of ,moses4 ,the best scholarship of     
to-day affirms that the discovery and   
first use of writing is certainly as old
 as the time of ,abraham4 7,see         
,schaff-,hergoz1 ,enc4 ,art4 ,writing47 
#b4 ,if the ,bible itself is not a      
fraud1 writing was constantly in use in 
the time of ,moses4 ,see3  7#a7 ,exod4  
vii4 #ad3 ,the ,lord said unto ,moses1  
,write this for a memorial in a book4   
7#b7 ,exod4 xxiv4 #d3 ,and ,moses wrote 
all the words of the ,lord4  7#c7 ,exod4
 xxxiv4 #bg3 ,and the ,lord said unto   
,moses1 ,write thou these words4  7#d7  
,exod4 xxxiv4 #bh3 ,and he 7,god7 wrote 
upon the tables the words of the        
covenant4  7#e7 ,num4 v4 #bc3 ,and the  
priest shall write these curses in a    
book4  7#f7 ,num4 xi4 #bf3 ,they were of
 them that were written4  7#g7 ,num4    
xvii4 #b3 ,write thou every man's name  
upon his rod4  7#h7 ,num4 xvii4 #c3     

,write ,aaron's name upon the rod of    
,levi4  7#i7 ,num4 xxxiii4 #b3 ,and     
,moses wrote their goings out according 
to their journeyings by the commandment 
of the ,lord4  7#aj7 ,deut4 vi4 #i3     
,thou shalt write them upon the posts of
 thy house and upon thy gates4  7#aa7   
,deut xi4 #bj4 ,repeats the last        
reference cited4  7#ab7 ,deut4 xvii1    
#ah3 ,when he 7the king7 sitteth upon   
the throne of his kingdom1 he shall     
write him a copy of this law in a book4 
,these are a few out of the many        
passages in the ,pentateuch in which    
,god has commanded his servant to write1
 and in which it is positively stated   
that his servant did write4 ,one of two 
things is certain1 either the whole     
,pentateuch is a fraud1 having stated   
repeatedly that writing was commanded   
and practiced1 or the book is true1 and 
the fraud must be charged to the belated
 critics4  ,the reader will see very    
clearly that the purpose of such        
criticism is to eliminate the           

supernatural from the ,bible1 as has    
been said1 and destroy its certitude4   
,it is too late in the day for the      
,professor's criticism1 that ,hebrew    
literature had its first development    
during the exile4 ,stephen full of the  
,holy ,spirit1 looking steadfastly into 
heaven1 read the record of history      
concerning ,moses differently4 ,stephen 
could not have heard the ,chautauqua    
lecturer's statement1 for he affirmed   
that ,moses was learned in all the      
wisdom of the ,egyptians1 and was mighty
 in words and deeds4  #c4 ,consider now 
the assumptions of the critics in the   
face of the claims of the book of       
,leviticus4 ,in the first verses of the 
book it is written3 ,and the ,lord      
called upon ,moses1 and spake unto him  
out of the tabernacle of the            
congregation1 saying4 ,then follow      
,god's specific directions concerning   
7#a7 ,the burnt offering2  7#b7 ,the    
meat offering1 and  7#c7 ,the sin       
offering1 occupying the whole of the    

first three chapters4 ,the fourth       
chapter is introduced in the same       
explicit language4  7#d7 ,the sin       
offering4  ,this definite direction of  
,god to ,moses extends to the sixth     
chapter of the book4 ,here again the    
same formula of speech is employed1 ,god
 speaking to ,moses gave directions     
concerning  7#e7 ,the trespass offering4
  ,in the eighth chapter we have ,god's 
direct communication to ,moses1 and     
,moses' response in such phrases as the 
following1 and all in a single chapter3 
,and the ,lord spake to ,moses1 444 and 
,moses did as the ,lord commanded him1  
444 and ,moses said unto the            
congregation1 444 and ,moses brought    
,aaron and his sons1 444 as the ,lord   
commanded ,moses1 444 and ,moses brought
 ,aaron's sons1 as the ,lord commanded  
,moses4 ,ten times in this single       
chapter it is recorded that ,god spake  
to ,moses1 and ,moses obeyed ,god4  ,and
 yet our critic would have us believe   
one of two things2 ,god either took the 

heathen sacrificial ritual1 veneered it 
with some sort of divine approval1 and  
handed it over to his people for their  
use1 or by some sort of evolution the   
book of ,leviticus came up out of the   
heathen method of appeasing their       
malevolent deities6  ,let the facts be  
summarized4 ,in every one of the        
twenty-seven chapters of the book of    
,leviticus ,god is represented as       
commanding ,moses1 and ,moses is        
represented as doing the thing which    
,god required of him1 and several times 
in many of the chapters4 ,in the        
eighteenth chapter nineteen definite    
things are done by ,moses1 the          
seventeenth verse asserting that all    
this was done as the ,lord commanded    
,moses4  ,the following references are  
absolutely unanswerable by the critics1 
viz43  ,lev4 i4 #a3 ,the ,lord called   
unto ,moses1 and spake unto him4  ,lev4 
iv4 #a3 ,the ,lord spake unto ,moses1   
saying1 etc4  ,lev4 vi4 #a2 ,and the    
,lord spake unto ,moses4  ,lev4 viii4   

#a3 ,and the ,lord spake unto ,moses4   
,lev4 viii4 #cf3 ,aaron and his sons did
 all things which the ,lord commanded by
 the hand of ,moses4  ,lev4 ix4 #f3 ,and
 ,moses said1 ,this is the thing which  
the ,lord commanded that ye should do4  
,lev4 xi4 #a3 ,and the ,lord spake unto 
,moses and to ,aaron4  ,lev4 xii4 #a3   
,and the ,lord spake unto ,moses4  ,lev4
 xiii4 #a3 ,and the ,lord spake unto    
,moses and ,aaron4  ,lev4 xiv4 #a3 ,and 
the ,lord spake unto ,moses4  ,lev4 xiv4
 #cc3 ,and the ,lord spake unto ,moses  
and unto ,aaron4  ,without further      
repetition of this phraseology1 the     
reader will find the same in the        
following references1 viz43 xv4 #a1 xvi4
 #a1 xvii4 #a1 xviii4 #a1 xix4 #a1 xx4  
#a1 xxi4 #a1 xxii4 #a-ag1 xxiii4 #a1    
xxiv4 #a1 xxv4 #a1 xxvii4 #a-cd4  ,here 
are twenty-five positive statements that
 ,god spake to ,moses1 or commanded     
,moses4 ,does language mean anything8   
,is there any escape from the truth1    
except by a denial of the entire ,word  

of ,god8  ,god and ,moses are the active
 agents in every chapter in the book of 
,leviticus4 ,and this fact is definitely
 stated in the last verse of ,leviticus3
 ,these are the commandments which the  
,lord commanded ,moses4  ,you might as  
well attempt to blot the sun from the   
heavens at high noon as to eliminate    
from the book of ,leviticus the one     
great and divinely-appointed            
personality1 ,moses1 the lawgiver1 the  
leader the actor1 and under ,god the    
author of the book4  ,a further word    
concerning the date of ,leviticus4 ,when
 was it written8 ,as already stated1 the
 critics place the time of the writing  
after the exile1 between nine hundred   
and one thousand years after the decease
 of ,moses4 ,something additional should
 be added to what has already been said 
on the subject4  ,the reader of the     
,english ,bible will see that ,leviticus
 immediately follows ,exodus by the     
connective and4 ,the same ,hebrew       
connective unites ,exodus with ,genesis1

 and ,numbers with ,leviticus4 ,the     
natural1 grammatical1 and logical       
inference is1 that the author of        
,genesis is the author of ,exodus1      
,leviticus1 and ,numbers4  ,in addition 
to this fact we have the testimony of   
some of the prophets who lived before   
the exile1 that they were familiar with 
what the critics call the priestly code1
 which is elaborated in ,leviticus4     
,professor ,stanley ,leathes adduces    
forty-five allusions to the books of    
,moses in the book of ,amos4 7,see      
,bible ,student and ,teacher1 ,october1 
#aijf47 ,amos' prophetic work was in the
 northern kingdom1 between #hjg and #gfe
 ,b4,c41 during the reign of ,jeroboam  
,,ii1 when the kingdom of ,israel was at
 the height of its splendor4 7,see      
,schaff-,herzog1 ,enc4 ,art4 ,amos47    
,this was more than two hundred years   
before the restoration from the exile1  
long before the captivity1 which the    
critics designate as the beginning of   
the literary period4  ,professor        

,leathes affirms that there is apparent 
acquaintance with and reference to each 
book of the ,pentateuch in this         
prophecy4 ,he shows that ,leviticus is  
referred to in nine passages in ,amos4  
,the reference in ,amos iv4 #e to a     
sacrifice in thanksgiving with leaven is
 an allusion to the law of thanksgiving 
in ,lev4 vii4 #ac4  ,in giving ,god's   
message to ,israel in a time of great   
backsliding1 ,amos said to them3 ,though
 ye offer unto me burnt offerings and   
meat offerings1 ,i will not accept them1
 neither will ,i regard the peace       
offerings of your fat beasts4 7,amos v4 
#bc47  ,this is an allusion to the law  
of burnt offerings and meat offerings   
set forth in the first chapter of       
,leviticus4 ,but the critics inform us  
that there was no law concerning these  
offerings until several hundred years   
after ,amos ceased to prophesy6  ,again1
 enumerating the sins of the people1    
,amos charges them with giving the      
,nazarites wine to drink4 ,ye gave the  

,nazarites wine to drink1 and commanded 
the prophets1 saying1 ,prophesy not4    
7,amos ii4 #ab47 ,this was a violation  
of the law of ,god as found in ,num4 vi4
 #b1 #c1 showing at least that the      
,pentateuch1 of which ,leviticus is an  
important part1 was known to ,amos1 long
 before the period to which ,leviticus  
has been assigned by the destructive    
critics4  ,hosea adds his testimony to  
that of ,amos and ,ezekiel4 ,again and  
again he refers to the law of sacrifices
 as taught in ,leviticus4 ,they shall be
 ashamed because of their sacrifices4   
,they sacrifice on the tops of the      
mountains and burn incense upon the     
hills4 7,hosea iv4 #ac1 #ai47           
,concerning ,ephraim1 ,god says by the  
prophet ,hosea3 ,i wrote for him ten    
thousand things of my law4 7,hosea viii4
 #ab1 ,r4,v47 ,he refers to the law as  
given to ,moses in all its length and   
breadth4  ,the critics demand large     
credulity from us4 ,they ask us to      
accept their position that the ,bible   

itself was mistaken as to its           
authorship1 that ,christ and his        
apostles were mistaken2 or at least did 
not tell the truth when they assigned   
the ,pentateuch 7,leviticus included7 to
 ,moses4 ,they then ask us to believe   
that the ,bible is not only unimpaired  
by the mistakes which the experts claim 
to have discovered1 but is really much  
improved by the discovery6  ,it passes  
rational comprehension that we are      
permitted to expunge from the ,word of  
,god1 on the ground of literary         
criticism1 the positive and repeated    
statements of inspired men1 and of the  
,son of ,god1 and yet assume that we    
have an unimpaired revelation6  ,we     
rather turn to the glorious array of    
witnesses to the integrity of the ,bible
 that ,god has furnished--the book      
itself1 ,moses and the prophets1 all the
 ,new ,testament writers and the        
,teacher sent from ,god4 ,from these    
witnesses we rest in the unshaken belief
 that ,god spake all these words 7,ex4  

xx4 #a7 and that ,moses wrote all the   
words of the ,lord 7,ex4 xxiv4 #d71     
including ,leviticus4     ,,vi4         
,,assumptions ,,concerning ,,the ,,book 
,,of ,,isaiah4  ,behold1 ,i am the      
,lord1 the ,god of all flesh2 is there  
anything too hard for me8 ,jer4 xxxii4  
#bg4  ,god hath spoken once2 twice have 
,i heard this2 that power belongeth unto
 ,god4 ,psa4 lxii4 #aa4  ,great is our  
,lord1 and of great power2 his          
understanding is infinite4 ,psa4 cxlvii4
 #e4  ,he revealeth the deep and secret 
things2 he knoweth what is in the       
darkness1 and that the light dwelleth   
with him4 ,dan4 ii4 #b4  ,known unto    
,god are all his works from the         
beginning of the world ,acts xv4 #ah4   
,the ,lord looketh from heaven2 he      
beholdeth all the sons of men4 ,psa4    
xxxiii4 #ac4  ,now therefore go1 and ,i 
will be with thy mouth1 and teach thee  
what thou shalt say4 ,ex4 iv4 #ab4  ,and
 he said1 ,go1 and tell this people1    
,hear ye indeed1 but understand not2 and

 see ye indeed1 but perceive not4       
,isaiah vi4 #i4   ,the critics claim to 
have discovered1 on literary and other  
evidence1 that the ,church of ,christ1  
in all its branches1 has been mistaken  
in all the past concerning the author of
 the book known as the ,prophecies of   
,isaiah4 ,they assume that all the      
foremost scholars of the world1 and the 
faith of ,god's people1 have been       
misled4 ,our critical advisers profess  
to have discovered that there were at   
least two1 and probably many more       
prophets1 whose writings compose the    
book4 ,they refuse to recognize ,isaiah 
alone as the author2 and for several    
reasons3  ,first--,because of the change
 of style of composition from the       
thirty-ninth chapter to the close of the
 book4  ,second--,on the ground that the
 theme is more exalted than in the first
 thirty-nine chapters4 ,hence1 it is    
assumed that these last chapters could  
not have been written by ,isaiah4       
,third--,on the ground that ,cyrus is   

mentioned by name1 in the forty-fourth  
and forty-fifth chapters of the book1 as
 the restorer of ,jerusalem4 ,hence1 our
 critics conclude that this part of the 
book must have been written after the   
event1 as the prophet 7it is assumed7   
could not name ,cyrus before his birth4 
,fourth--,the critics assume that the   
prophet must prophesy out of his        
immediate surroundings1 whatever that   
may mean4 ,they furnish their troubled  
disciples the comforting assurance that 
these discoveries do not diminish the   
value of the book1 but render it more   
accurate and interesting as a literary  
work4 ,the professor already quoted1 a  
fair representative of the critical     
school1 in his recent lectures1 referred
 to on a preceding page1 distinguished  
the authors of the book as ,isaiah and  
the ,great ,unknown ,prophet4 ,other    
critics multiply1 somewhat indefinitely1
 the number of ,the ,unknowns4 ,our     
critic regards the change in style and  
theme from the thirty-ninth chapter to  

the end of the book as valid proof of at
 least the dual authorship of the book4 
,this assumption instantly raises the   
question as to who is the author of     
prophetic themes4 ,is it the prophet    
himself or the ,holy ,spirit8 ,does the 
prophet himself bring forth the prophecy
 of his own foreknowledge8 ,or1 is the  
,holy ,spirit the inspirer of themes new
 and old8 ,happily ,god has settled the 
question for us4 ,he declares by his    
,apostle ,peter that no prophecy of     
,scripture is of any private            
interpretation2 that is1 of the         
prophet's own disclosure4 ,for prophecy 
came not of old time by the will of man2
 but holy men of ,god spake as they were
 moved by the ,holy ,spirit4 7#b ,peter 
i4 #bj1 #ba47 ,it is1 therefore1 bold   
assumption to affirm that ,god could not
 give to the same prophet new and more  
exalted themes in his progressive       
revelation of truth4 ,it is a limitation
 of ,god himself to the critic's notion 
of what should1 or should not be4 ,this 

would eliminate the divine element of   
the book by a sweep of the critic's pen4
 ,it is an assumption too groundless to 
need a reply4  ,further1 as to the      
change of style4 ,nothing is more       
natural or reasonable than the fact that
 a change of theme should produce a     
change of style4 ,a more exalted theme  
must quicken the imagination1 set the   
emotions aflame1 stimulate all the      
mental and moral powers of the author4  
,a historical statement1 a commonplace  
theme1 can be dealt with in a           
commonplace style1 while new and        
uplifting truth awakens new powers in   
the writer4 ,milton's ,paradise ,lost   
was entirely different from his ordinary
 prose composition4 ,dr4 ,john ,watson's
 sermons were on a higher level than his
 books of fiction4 ,writers who do much 
of their literary work on the level     
plain on which the people move1         
frequently rise to mountain peaks of    
sublime composition when the occasion   
and theme demand it4  ,the style in the 

later chapters of the book of ,isaiah is
 just what we would expect from the     
prophet when the ,holy ,spirit opened to
 his enraptured mind the theme of       
redemption through a suffering ,messiah1
 in the fifty-third and following       
chapters of the book4  ,the objection to
 conceding the authorship of the entire 
book to ,isaiah1 because the prophet    
mentions ,cyrus by name before his      
birth1 is made in the face of the       
fundamental fact already stated that    
,god inspired the writer1 and is        
therefore the author of prophecy1       
declaring the end from the beginning4   
7,isa4 xlvi4 #aj47 ,he knows all the    
future and whom he will choose to       
accomplish his glorious purposes4 ,to   
deny this fact is to deny all prophecy4 
,if ,god can not foretell future events 
and the instruments for their           
accomplishment1 there can be no         
prophecy1 and ,god's omniscience is     
impeached4 ,isaiah prophesied in the    
seventh chapter and fourteenth verse3   

,behold1 a virgin shall conceive and    
bear a son1 and shall call his name     
,immanuel4 ,matthew affirms that this   
prophecy was fulfilled in the birth of  
,jesus4 7,matt4 i4 #bb1 #bc47 ,he also  
declares in the same connection that the
 announcing angel foretold that the name
 ,jesus was to be given to the ,messiah 
at his birth4 ,these preannouncements   
must be cast aside if the critic's      
dictum is accepted4 ,shall we discredit 
,isaiah1 the announcing angel1 and      
,matthew on the ground of the critic's  
literary acumen8  ,further1 the student 
of the ,word will remember that when    
,jeroboam was bringing disaster upon    
,israel1 ,god sent his prophet to       
declare3 ,behold a son shall be born    
unto the house of ,david1 ,josiah by    
name2 and upon thee 7the altar at       
,bethel7 shall he offer the priests of  
the high places that burn incense upon  
thee1 and men's bones shall be burnt    
upon thee4 ,more than three hundred     
years after this prophecy was given1    

according to ,usher's ,chronology1      
,josiah was born and did the precise    
things that were predicted concerning   
him4 7,see #a ,kings xiii4 #b and #b    
,kings xxiii1 #ae1 #af47 ,the           
omniscience of the ,holy ,spirit can    
predict the name of the instrument as   
readily as the event which is to be     
accomplished4  ,again1 undoubtedly the  
prophet must speak out of his own       
environment4 ,he can speak only where he
 is4 ,but who is to decide how many and 
what allusions he must make to custom or
 incident in order to satisfy the       
critic1 as to his time and place in     
history8  ,the tailor who decides that  
he must have twenty yards of cloth to   
make a suit of clothes1 when ten yards  
are sufficient1 will shortly be wanting 
customers4 ,the critic who has decided  
how many and what kind of synchronous   
events must be furnished by the prophet1
 in order to secure his credence as to  
authorship1 will be left without a      
prophet or a ,bible4  ,the erection of  

an arbitrary law1 by which to interpret 
history or prophecy in the ,bible1 is   
contrary to all the treatment which     
secular literature receives from these  
same critics4  ,from these strained1    
forced and unphilosophical methods of   
dealing with prophecy1 we turn to the   
testimony of the inspired book itself4  
,the book of ,isaiah is distinguished by
 a phraseology peculiar to this prophet4
 ,he speaks of ,god as ,the ,holy ,one  
of ,israel4 ,this title1 as applied to  
,god1 is used only seven times in the   
entire ,old ,testament2 once in #b      
,kings1 three times in the ,psalms1     
twice in the prophecies of ,jeremiah1   
and once in ,ezekiel1 but never in the  
minor prophets4 ,but ,isaiah uses this  
title as applied to ,god1 twenty-two    
times1 running through the entire book  
from the first to the sixtieth chapter4 
,the reader will be interested to note  
how the repeated use of the phrase--,the
 ,holy ,one of ,israel--attests the     
unity of the authorship of the entire   

book4 ,hence the passages 7line upon    
line1 line upon line7 are here presented
 to give their unequivocal testimony to 
our ,sabbath ,school teachers4  #a3     
,isaiah ,i3#d--,they have forsaken the  
,lord1 they have provoked the ,holy ,one
 of ,israel to anger4  #b3 ,isaiah      
v3#ah1 #ai--,woe unto them that draw    
iniquity with cords of vanity1 and sin  
as it were with a cart rope3 that say   
444 let the counsel of the ,holy ,one of
 ,israel draw nigh and come1 that we may
 know it4  #c3 ,isaiah v3#bd--;,because 
they have cast away the law of the ,lord
 of hosts1 and despised the word of the 
,holy ,one of ,israel4  #d3 ,isaiah     
xii3#f--;,cry out and shout1 thou       
inhabitant of ,zion2 for great is the   
,holy ,one of ,israel in the midst of   
thee4  #e3 ,isaiah xvii3#g--;,at that   
day shall a man look to his ,maker1 and 
his eyes shall have respect to the ,holy
 ,one of ,israel4  #f3 ,isaiah          
xxix3#ai--,the poor among man shall     
rejoice in the ,holy ,one of ,israel4   

#g3 ,isaiah xxx3#aa--;,cause the ,holy  
,one of ,israel to cease from before us4
 7,the language of a rebellious people47
  #h3 ,isaiah xxx3#ab--,wherefore1 thus 
saith the ,holy ,one of ,israel1 because
 ye despise this word 444 therefore this
 iniquity shall be to you as a breach   
ready to fall4  #i3 ,isaiah             
xxx3#ae--,thus saith the ,lord ,god1 the
 ,holy ,one of ,israel2 ,in returning   
and rest shall ye be saved4  #aj3       
,isaiah xxxi3#a--,they look not unto the
 ,holy ,one of ,israel1 neither seek the
 ,lord4  #aa3 ,isaiah xli3#ad--;,fear   
not1 thou worm ,jacob1 and ye men of    
,israel2 ,i will help thee1 ,i will help
 thee saith the ,lord1 and thy          
,redeemer1 the ,holy ,one of ,israel4   
#ab3 ,isaiah xli3#af--,thou shalt       
rejoice in the ,lord1 and shalt glory in
 the ,holy ,one of ,israel4  #ac3       
,isaiah xli3#bj--,that they may see1 and
 know1 and consider1 and understand     
together1 that the hand of the ,lord    
hath done this1 and the ,holy ,one of   

,israel hath created it4  #ad3 ,isaiah  
xliii3#ac--;,i am the ,lord thy ,god1   
the ,holy ,one of ,israel1 thy ,savior4 
#ae3 ,isaiah xlv3#aa--,thus saith the   
,lord1 the ,holy ,one of ,israel1 and   
his ,maker1 ,ask me of things to come1  
concerning my sons1 and concerning the  
work of my hands command ye me4  #af3   
,isaiah xlvii3#d--;,as for our          
,redeemer1 the ,lord of hosts is his    
name1 the ,holy ,one of ,israel4  #ag3  
,isaiah xlviii3#ag--,thus saith the     
,lord1 thy ,redeemer1 the ,holy ,one of 
,israel1 ,i am the ,lord thy ,god1 which
 teacheth thee to profit1 which leadeth 
thee by the way that thou shouldest go4 
#ah3 ,isaiah xlix3#g--,thus saith the   
,lord 444 ,kings shall see and arise1   
princes also shall worship1 because of  
the ,lord that is faithful1 and the     
,holy ,one of ,israel1 and he shall     
choose thee4  #ai3 ,isaiah liv3#e--;,for
 thy ,maker is thine husband2 ,the ,lord
 of hosts is his name1 and thy ,redeemer
 is the ,holy ,one of ,israel2 ,the ,god

 of the whole earth shall he be called4 
#bj3 ,isaiah lv3#e--,nations that knew  
not thee1 shall run unto thee because of
 the ,lord thy ,god1 and for the ,holy  
,one of ,israel4  #ba3 ,isaiah          
lx3#i--,the ,isles shall wait for me1   
and the ships of ,tarshish first1 to    
bring thy sons from far1 their silver   
and their gold with them1 unto the name 
of the ,lord thy ,god1 and to the ,holy 
,one of ,israel1 because he hath        
glorified thee4  #bb3 ,isaiah           
lx3#ad--;,and they shall call thee the  
city of the ,lord1 the ,zion of the     
,holy ,one of ,israel4  ,the reader will
 notice that this phrase1 as applied to 
,god is a characteristic of ,isaiah4 ,we
 have not found it in any of the minor  
prophets1 and but twice in the          
prophecies of ,jeremiah1 and once in    
,ezekiel4 ,but ,isaiah uses it more than
 twenty times1 running from the first to
 the sixtieth chapter4 ,he uses it ten  
times before reaching the fortieth      
chapter1 and twelve times in the        

chapters following1 which the critics   
have assigned to some unknown author or 
authors4 ,shall we be asked to conclude 
that the unknown authors adopted        
,isaiah's style1 his phraseology1 from  
the fortieth chapter to the end of the  
book8 ,for what motive8 ,to conceal     
themselves8 ,the assumption is too      
large4 ,if the first thirty-nine        
chapters of this book are accepted1 as  
the prophecies of ,isaiah1 by every law 
of fair criticism the whole book must   
claim this prophet as its author4       
,,vii4 ,,god',s ,,reply ,,to ,,these    
,,assumptions4  ,nay but1 ,o man1 who   
art thou that repliest against ,god8    
,rom4 ix4 #bj4  ,at the mouth of two    
witnesses1 or at the mouth of three     
witnesses1 shall the matter be          
established4 ,deut4 xix4 #ae4           
,whatsoever things were written         
aforetime were written for our learning1
 that we through patience and comfort of
 the ,scriptures might have hope4 ,rom4 
xv4 #d4  ,now all these things happened 

unto them for ensamples2 and they are   
written for our admonition1 upon whom   
the ends of the world are come4 #a ,cor4
 x4 #aa4  ,my people shall know my name1
 therefore they shall know in that day  
that ,i am he that doth speak1 ,behold1 
it is ,i4 ,isaiah lii4 #f4   ,in the    
,new ,testament we have in the ,gospels 
and the ,epistles ,god's teachings      
concerning the ,old ,testament4 ,the    
writers of the ,new ,testament had the  
promise of our ,lord that ,the          
,comforter1 who is the ,holy ,spirit1   
whom the ,father will send in my name1  
,he shall teach you all things1 and     
bring all things to your remembrance1   
whatsoever ,i have said unto you4 7,john
 xiv4 #bf47  ,in the fulfillment of this
 promise they have given us the         
testimony of ,god1 the ,holy ,spirit1 on
 all the subjects of which they have    
written4 ,what1 therefore1 is their     
testimony concerning the author of the  
book of ,isaiah8 ,did that prophet write
 the book1 or is it a patched book from 

various authors8  ,matthew1 the inspired
 author of the book that bears his name1
 quotes from ,isaiah xl4 #c3 ,the voice 
of him that crieth in the wilderness1   
,prepare ye the way of the ,lord1 make  
straight in the desert a highway for our
 ,god4 7,see ,matt4 iii4 #c47  ,the     
critics inform us that this prophecy was
 not given by ,isaiah1 but by some      
unknown prophet1 and was bound up with  
,isaiah's prophecies1 and labeled as    
his4 ,matthew informs us that it was a  
prophecy concerning ,john the ,baptist1 
and was given by ,isaiah himself1 and   
not by another4 ,he says 7iii4 #c71     
referring to ,john the ,baptist3 ,for   
this is he that was spoken of through   
,isaiah the prophet1 saying3  ,the voice
 of one crying in the wilderness1 ,make 
ye ready the way of the ,lord1 ,make his
 paths straight4 7,r4,v47  ,again1 in   
,matt4 viii4 #ag1 the author of this    
gospel quotes a passage from the        
fifty-third chapter of ,isaiah4 ,the    
critics have handed this fifty-third    

chapter over to the ,unknown prophet or 
prophets4 ,they affirm again that the   
theme and literary style of this chapter
 are such that ,isaiah could not have   
written it4 ,they base their affirmation
 on their own literary discoveries1     
their ability to detect the footprints  
of some other prophet1 though they do   
not inform us who that prophet is4 ,they
 are sure that it was not ,isaiah1 for  
they have already placed him under such 
limitations that1 according to their    
critical decision1 he could not write   
the chapter4 ,of course1 their          
conclusion is reached by practically    
denying the ,holy ,spirit's             
agency--logically denying that holy men 
of ,god spake as they were moved by the 
,holy ,spirit4 7#b ,peter i4 #ba47  ,the
 inspired author of the gospel of       
,matthew had a different conception of  
the ,holy ,spirit's agency in giving    
prophecy to the world4 ,he had not      
discovered the limitations of the       
prophet1 which the critics profess to   

have found4 ,hence1 in giving the       
history of ,god's gracious and          
miraculous work of casting out demons   
and healing the sick1 he declares       
7,matt4 viii4 #ag71 without a shadow of 
a mistake1 that ,christ wrought these   
miracles1 that it might be fulfilled    
which was spoken through ,isaiah the    
prophet1 saying1 ,himself took our      
infirmities and bare our diseases4 7,see
 also ,isaiah liii4 #d47  ,as ,matthew  
is on the witness stand1 the reader will
 be interested to hear his testimony    
further4 ,in his gospel 7xii4 #ag-ba7 he
 testifies that ,isaiah wrote the       
forty-second chapter of the prophecy    
that bears his name4 ,matthew quotes the
 first four verses of the chapter1 in   
explanation of the fact that ,christ    
found it necessary during his ministry  
to retire from the public excitement    
which his teaching and miracles had     
produced4 ,he says that ,christ pursued 
that course that it might be fulfilled  
which was spoken through ,isaiah the    

prophet1 saying1 ,behold my servant whom
 ,i have chosen2 my beloved in whom my  
soul is well pleased2 ,i will put my    
,spirit upon him and he shall show      
judgment to the ,gentiles4 ,he shall not
 strive nor cry1 neither shall any man  
hear his voice in the streets4 ,a       
bruised reed shall he not break1 and    
smoking flax shall he not quench1 till  
he send forth judgment unto victory1 and
 in his name shall the ,gentiles trust4 
,this quotation is from ,isaiah1        
forty-second chapter1 and first part of 
the chapter4 ,the reader will remember  
that the critics deny this testimony of 
,matthew4 ,this forty-second chapter    
which he 7,matthew7 assigns to ,isaiah  
is a part of the book which they affirm 
has come to us from some unknown source4
  ,it is worthy of repetition that three
 times ,matthew1 the inspired author of 
the first gospel1 has affirmed without  
equivocation that the passages which he 
quotes were spoken by ,isaiah the       
prophet4 ,the critics say ,no4 ,which   

will the reader believe8  ,the author of
 the third gospel1 describing our       
,lord's visit to ,nazareth1 says3 ,as   
his custom was1 he went into the        
synagogue on the ,sabbath day1 and stood
 up for to read4 ,and there was         
delivered unto him the book of the      
prophet ,isaiah1 and when he had opened 
the book1 he found the place where it   
was written1 ,the ,spirit of the ,lord  
is upon me1 because he hath anointed me 
to preach the gospel2 he hath sent me to
 heal the broken hearted1 to preach     
deliverance to the captives1 and        
recovery of sight to the blind1 to set  
at liberty them that are bruised1 to    
preach the acceptable year of the ,lord4
 ,luke iv4 #af-ai4  ,luke informs us    
that it was the book of the prophet     
,isaiah from which our ,savior made this
 quotation4 ,we turn to the prophecy and
 discover that the passage is found in  
the sixty-first chapter and first and   
second verses of the book4 ,but the     
critics who are correcting our ,bible   

for us 787 inform us that their same    
literary discovery holds good here--that
 this part of the book was not written  
by ,isaiah4 ,they assume to hand over   
this part of the book1 knowingly1 to the
 ,great ,unknown and unknowable         
prophets4 ,the testimony of ,luke       
contradicts the critics4 ,he gives      
,isaiah full credit as the author of the
 statement4 ,the reader will doubtless  
accept the fact that the inspired       
writer1 the author of ,luke's gospel1   
obtained his information at first hand1 
from ,god himself1 who inspired the     
record4  ,again ,luke contradicts the   
critics when he puts on record ,philip's
 interview with the eunuch1 as we find  
it in ,acts viii4 #cj-cc4 ,when ,philip 
joined himself to the eunuch1 by        
direction of the ,spirit1 he heard him  
reading ,isaiah the prophet 7,isaiah    
liii4 #g71 and said1 ,understandest thou
 what thou readest8 444 ,now1 the       
passage of the ,scriptures which he was 
reading was this3 ,he was led as a sheep

 to the slaughter and as a lamb before  
his shearer1 dumb1 so he opened not his 
mouth4 ,in his humiliation his judgment 
was taken away3 his generation who shall
 declare8 ,for his life is taken from   
the earth1 7,r4,v41 ,acts viii4 #cj-cc47
  ,our critics have robbed ,isaiah of   
this passage4 ,it was written1 so their 
literary skill claims to have           
discovered1 by some prophet who has     
successfully concealed himself1 and     
finally disappeared from sight1 leaving 
no hope that his name will ever be      
discovered4  ,luke informs us that he   
knew who the prophet was that penned    
that touching description of the coming 
,messiah1 and that his name was ,isaiah4
 ,this question he has settled4         
,turning to the gospel of ,john1 we are 
furnished the testimony of one of whom  
our ,lord said1 ,verily ,i say unto you1
 ,among them that are born of woman1    
there hath not risen a greater than     
,john the ,baptist4 ,this witness comes 
before us1 therefore1 indorsed by ,jesus

 ,christ himself1 ,the faithful         
,witness4 ,we ask him1 therefore1 to    
speak for himself as to who is the      
author of that part of prophecy which   
the critics are attempting to wrest from
 ,isaiah4  ,when the priests and        
,levites came to ask him1 ,who art thou8
 ,that we may give an answer to them    
that sent us4 ,what sayest thou of      
thyself8 he replied1 ,i am the ,voice of
 one crying in the wilderness1 make     
straight the way of the ,lord1 as said  
,isaiah the prophet4 7,see ,john i4 #bb1
 #bc1 ,r4,v47  ,this was his testimony1 
first concerning himself4 ,we believe   
him4 ,and this was his testimony1       
secondly1 concerning the author of the  
prophecy which he quoted3 ,isaiah the   
prophet4  ,again we believe him1 and as 
confidently1 concerning the second      
statement as the first4 ,and the        
,apostle ,john was so confident of its  
truth that he put it on record4  ,the   
passage quoted 7,isaiah xl4 #c7 belongs 
to that part of the book which our      

critic and his fellow critics have      
decided was predicted by some stray     
prophet1 unknown to the world1 to the   
,jewish people or the church4 ,we prefer
 the statement of ,john the ,baptist1   
and its indorsement by ,john the        
,apostle4  ,the reader will now recall  
that we have already heard ,matthew's   
corroboration of the testimony of ,john 
the ,baptist concerning ,isaiah's claim 
to this prophecy4 7,see ,matt iii4 #c47 
,in the gospel of the ,apostle ,john he 
puts on record his personal testimony   
concerning the author of the book       
bearing ,isaiah's name4 ,explaining the 
amazing unbelief of the ,jews1 he says  
7xii4 #cg1 #ch73 ,but though he 7,jesus7
 did so many signs before them1 yet they
 believed not on him3 that the word of  
,isaiah the prophet might be fulfilled1 
which he spake3  ,lord1 who hath        
believed our report8 and to whom hath   
the arm of the ,lord been revealed8     
7,r4,v47  ,the reader will see that this
 inspired writer of the fourth gospel is

 quoting from ,isaiah liii4 #a1 thus    
testifying to ,isaiah's authorship4     
,our literary critics have decided that 
this chapter was forbidden ground to    
,isaiah1 that1 if we are to believe     
them1 he had no connection with this    
prophecy4  ,we are asked to believe that
 the author of this fifty-third chapter1
 the most minute and tender prophecy    
concerning the ,messiah's sufferings for
 his people1 and rejection by them1 has 
dropped out of sight6 ,we are asked to  
believe that the name of the prophet who
 gave this dramatic picture of what was 
to take place on ,calvary seven hundred 
years later1 has been lost in the fog of
 the passing centuries6 ,we are asked to
 believe that the name of the author of 
the first thirty-nine chapters1 the less
 important part of the book1 has been   
preserved1 but oblivion has overtaken   
the author of the book from the fortieth
 chapter to the end4  ,the assumption is
 an affront to the intelligence of the  
ordinary reader of the ,bible4 ,it is an

 impeachment of the honesty of the      
authors of the gospels1 which the       
unshaken faith of ,god's people can     
never concede4  ,the reader can now sum 
up the testimony of ,matthew1 ,mark 7see
 i4 #c1 ,r4,v471 ,luke1 ,john1 and ,john
 the ,baptist1 all of whom with one     
voice contradicts the critics4 ,we also 
prefer1 with these witnesses1 to        
discredit the men who are picking out   
clauses1 verses and chapters here and   
there1 and guessing them off to authors 
of their own invention1 who have never  
been known or heard of4  ,it is not     
sufficient for the critics to say that  
these ,new ,testament authors knew      
better1 but deferred to popular         
sentiment1 based on tradition4 ,that can
 not satisfy our estimate of them as    
,god's divinely appointed teachers1     
chosen to make record of the momentous  
truth on which the salvation of a lost  
world hangs4 ,men1 ready to lay down    
their lives for the truth1 were not the 
men to play fast and loose with the     

,word of ,god1 in deference to a        
supposed popular sentiment4  ,further1  
our critical friends have assumed to    
decide for the prophets that they must  
prophesy out of their immediate         
surroundings in such a marked way1 with 
such continued reference to the events  
of the period1 that the prophecy must be
 located in that period4 ,if the critic 
cannot find these particular local      
earmarks1 he must push the prophecy to a
 point of time with which he can make it
 synchronize1 and which will satisfy his
 literary judgment4 ,by this law of     
determining dates1 the critics claim    
that the book of ,isaiah is a composite 
work1 produced by different authors and 
at different times4  ,on this assumption
 the latter part of the book of         
,revelation was not a revelation to the 
,apostle ,john on the ,isle of ,patmos4 
,the first part of the book may be      
adjudged as his4 ,but presently the     
matter of the book passes into a realm  
beyond the time and circumstances that  

belong to that period1 hence may not    
claim him as its author4 ,an assumption 
that sets aside the claims of           
,scripture1 as to authorship1 in order  
to harmonize the book with one's        
literary and critical judgment1 may be  
dismissed on its own lack of merit4     
,the proposed law above referred to1 as 
a method of locating prophecy as to     
time1 or determining the author1 is     
arbitrary1 and an absurd attempt to     
destroy all the testimony of inspired   
writers1 who have settled the question  
of authorship and the date of prophecy4 
,,viii4 ,,the ,,historicity ,,of ,,the  
,,book ,,of ,,jonah4  ,according to the 
word of the ,lord ,god of ,israel1 which
 he spake by the hand of his servant    
,jonah1 the son of ,amittai the prophet1
 which was of ,gath-hepher4 #b ,kings   
xiv4 #be4  ,the word of the ,lord came  
unto ,jonah1 the son of ,amittai1       
saying1 ,arise go to ,nineveh1 that     
great city1 and cry against it3 for     
their wickedness is come up before me4  

,jonah i4 #a1 #b4  ,so ,jonah arose and 
went unto ,nineveh1 according to the    
word of the ,lord4 ,jonah iii44 #c4     
,and he cried1 and said1 ,yet forty     
days1 and ,nineveh shall be overthrown4 
,jonah iii4 #d4  ,so the people of      
,nineveh believed ,god4 ,jonah iii4 #e4 
,and ,god saw their works1 that they    
turned from their evil way2 and ,god    
repented of the evil that he had said he
 would do unto them1 and he did it not4 
,jonah iii4 #aj4  ,the men of ,nineveh  
shall rise in judgment with this        
generation1 and shall condemn it1       
because they repented at the preaching  
of ,jonas4 ,matt4 xii4 #da4   ,the book 
of ,jonah has been attacked by the      
destructive critics4 ,its historicity   
has been denied4 ,the critics1 though   
certain of almost all of their          
objections to the ,bible1 have not all  
decided whether it is based on history1 
or is a nature myth4 ,keunen has        
discovered 787 that it is a product of  
the opposition to the strict and        

exclusive policy of ,ezra toward heathen
 nations4 ,objection is made to the     
historical statements of the book on    
various grounds4 ,the objector          
interposes this difficulty3 ,can we     
conceive of a heathen city being        
converted by an obscure foreign prophet8
  ,this objection is of kin to that     
which can not conceive that by a        
creative act of ,god the universe was   
brought into being1 or the inspired     
statement that the worlds were framed by
 the word of ,god4 ,it is the presence  
of the supernatural everywhere that is  
beyond the conception of the critics4   
,again1 they interpose the difficulty3  
,how could the ,ninevites give credence 
to a man who was not a servant of       
,ashur8  ,without presenting the        
multiplied difficulties that rationalism
 has supposedly discovered1 they may be 
summed up in their statement            
substantially1 that the book of ,jonah  
is not historical4 ,whatever else it may
 be1 whether legend1 myth or allegory1  

it is not history4  ,we turn again from 
the fancies of ,expert ,scholarship to  
the testimony of the ,bible concerning  
itself4 ,we discover that the prophet   
,jonah is referred to several hundred   
years before the critics have permitted 
him to live4 ,it is written in #b ,kings
 xiv4 #be that ,jeroboam the ,second    
secured the restoration of certain      
territory1 according to the word of the 
,lord ,god of ,israel1 which he spake by
 the hand of his servant ,jonah1 the son
 of ,amittai the prophet1 which was of  
,gath-hepher4  ,the name of ,jonah1 of  
his family1 and the place of residence  
of his family1 are definitely stated4   
,the work is accomplished by the hand of
 his servant ,jonah1 and the date of its
 accomplishment1 is so precisely        
recorded that these statements could    
have been disproved had they been false4
 ,hence1 there was a person named       
,jonah4  ,our ,lord has settled the     
questions of the personality and work of
 ,jonah1 if anything can be settled for 

unbelief4 ,he has affirmed the          
historical certainty of the two         
important events which critical         
assumption declares impossible4 ,the    
critical ,jews were demanding a sign    
from our ,lord4 ,he had wrought many    
miracles1 but they wanted something     
beyond what he had given1 a miracle for 
their special benefit4 ,he declined to  
gratify them4 ,of that generation he    
said3 ,there shall no sign be given it1 
but the sign of the prophet ,jonah4 ,for
 as ,jonah was three days and three     
nights in the whale's belly1 so shall   
the ,son of man be three days and three 
nights in the heart of the earth4       
7,matt4 xii4 #ci-da47 ,as ,jonah was    
miraculously preserved for three days   
and nights and was brought forth1 as by 
a resurrection1 so was the ,son of man  
to be brought forth from the tomb4 ,his 
resurrection was to be the crowning     
miracle1 the sign forever confronting   
his nation1 ,jonah's deliverance from   
apparent death was such a miracle as    

convinced the ,ninevites that he had a  
message from ,god for them1 so ,christ's
 resurrection was to become the keystone
 of the arch on which the whole         
structure of the redemptive system      
should rest4 ,he was raised for our     
justification4 7,rom4 iv4 #be47  ,the   
reader will mark that our ,lord referred
 to the miraculous preservation of      
,jonah1 and his deliverance1 as a       
historical event1 recorded in the first 
and second chapters of the book of      
,jonah1 not as a myth or allegory1 but  
as a historical fact4 ,as ,jonah was    
three days and three nights in the      
whale's belly1 so shall the ,son of man 
be three days and three nights in the   
heart of the earth4 ,as the one1 so the 
other4 ,as certainly and literally the  
one1 so certainly and literally the     
other4 ,if ,jonah's preservation and    
coming forth from the fish that ,god had
 prepared was only a legend1 then was   
,christ's death1 burial1 and            
resurrection a legend4 ,and in          

consistency with their critical theory  
some of the rationalists have reduced   
them both to legend4 ,for as one was1 so
 was the other to be4 ,the statement is 
plain1 definite narrative1 from which   
there is no escape4  ,others of the     
critical school hold to the historical  
verity of ,christ's burial and          
resurrection1 but assert that he made   
use of the assumed legend concerning    
,jonah1 as we might illustrate any fact 
in history by a familiar statement from 
fiction4 ,to such an assumption we reply
 that our ,lord was dealing with        
tremendous realities1 such as could not 
be belittled by turning for support or  
illustration to a fictitious story4 ,he 
quoted from ,old ,testament history to  
illustrate and enforce ,new ,testament  
truth4 ,on another occasion he said3 ,as
 ,moses lifted up the serpent in the    
wilderness1 even so must the ,son of man
 be lifted up that whosoever believeth  
on him should not perish1 but have      
eternal life4 ,shall we hand over to    

legendary literature the great          
historical fact of the twenty-first     
chapter of ,numbers--,god's deliverance 
of the people from the fiery            
serpents--by one look at the uplifted   
brazen serpent by the hand of ,moses8   
,we may as well reduce one passage to   
fiction as the other4 ,as ,jonah 444    
three days and nights1 so the ,son of   
man4 ,as the serpent was lifted up1 so  
the ,son of man shall be lifted up4     
,this comparison has a definite meaning4
 ,the apostle uses it in his ,epistle to
 the ,romans1 fifth chapter and twelfth 
verse4 ,as by one man sin entered into  
the world1 444 so death passed upon all 
men for that all have sinned4 ,as       
certainly as sin entered into the world 
by one man1 so certainly it resulted    
that death passed upon all men4 ,as     
,christ's remaining in the grave three  
days was not a fiction1 so ,jonah's     
three days and nights in the great fish 
that ,god had prepared was not a        
fiction4  ,our ,lord further certifies  

to the historicity of the book of ,jonah
 by his reference to the great prophet's
 preaching4 ,the critic's objection is  
thus stated3 ,can we conceive of a      
heathen city being converted by an      
obscure foreign prophet8  ,of course1   
the objection to the record of that     
mighty moral movement comes from those  
who have counted ,god out of ,jonah's   
preaching4 ,if they can eliminate the   
divine power from that event1 they can  
easily hand the whole record over to    
what they are pleased to call the folk  
lore of the ,bible4 ,here1 as ever1 the 
critic must rid the ,scriptures of the  
supernatural4  ,but our ,savior knew    
that power belongeth unto ,god 7,psa4   
lxii4 #aa71 and he put on record the    
repentance of the ,ninevites1 saying1   
,the men of ,nineveh shall rise up in   
judgment with this generation and       
condemn it1 because they repented at the
 preaching of ,jonah4 7,matt4 xii4 #da47
 ,but if the book is not history1 our   
,lord's statement is false1 for he says 

the ,ninevites did repent4  ,there is no
 rational possibility of denying our    
,lord's positive statement without      
impeaching his veracity4  ,his words    
authorize the following conclusions3    
,i4 ,there was a prophet whose name was 
,jonah1 as is stated in #b ,kings xiv4  
#be4 ,he was not a myth or figment1 but 
a prophet whose personality is          
authenticated by ,christ himself4  #b4  
,there was a city of ,nineveh4 ,the     
skepticism of other days denied the     
existence of ,nineveh4 ,so completely   
was the prophecy concerning the         
destruction of ,nineveh fulfilled that  
the enemies of ,god's ,word refused to  
believe that the city had ever existed1 
until the excavations of the last       
century revealed the hidden ruins4 ,but 
the word of ,god was true1 and in ,god's
 time ,nineveh was revealed4  #c4 ,god  
sent this same prophet ,jonah to        
,nineveh to preach4 ,christ tells us    
what took place under the preaching of  
,jonah4 ,it terminated in a great       

awakening and reformation for3  #d4 ,the
 men of ,nineveh 444 repented at the    
preaching of ,jonah4  ,did the ,savior  
know what he was talking about8 ,did he 
know the truth of the statement he made8
 ,or1 knowing 7as is assumed7 that there
 were no such events1 did he resort to  
fiction in order to assert the certainty
 of his own resurrection8 ,if the       
latter1 then we must correct his        
statement concerning ,jonah1 and read3  
,as ,jonah has been fictitiously        
represented to have been three days and 
three nights in the whale's belly1 so1  
fictitiously1 shall the ,son of man be  
three days and three nights in the heart
 of the earth4  ,our ,sunday-school     
teachers1 with the words of ,christ     
before them1 will be able to give the   
critics important information4 ,they can
 report the certainty of the historical 
facts4     ,,ix4 ,,radical ,,exposition4
  ,among you also there shall be false  
teachers1 who shall privily bring in    
destructive heresies1 denying even the  

,master that bought them1 bringing upon 
themselves swift destruction4 7,r4,v47  
#b ,peter ii4 #a4  ,o ,timothy1 keep    
that which is committed to thy trust1   
avoiding profane and vain babblings1 and
 oppositions of science falsely so      
called1 which some professing have erred
 concerning the faith4 #a ,tim4 vi4 #bj1
 #ba4  ,take heed unto thyself1 and unto
 the doctrine2 continue in them4 #a     
,tim4 iv4 #af4  ,we have also a more    
sure word of prophecy1 whereunto ye do  
well that ye take heed1 as unto a light 
that shineth in a dark place until the  
day dawn1 and the day star arise in your
 hearts4 #b ,peter i4 #ai4   ,the       
destructive critics have pushed their   
work far into the field of both prophecy
 and exposition4 ,they have relegated to
 the domain of mythology the clear and  
unequivocal historical statements of    
,scripture4 ,where the intrusion of     
their mythological theory was too large 
a demand to make on our credulity1 they 
have attempted a radical exegesis in    

proof of their assumptions4  ,they claim
 to have discovered that the ,church in 
all the past has misconceived the first 
prophetic promise given to man4 ,that   
promise was given to our first parents  
immediately after the fall4 ,god said to
 the serpent 7,gen4 iii4 #ae73 ,i will  
put enmity between thee and the woman1  
and between thy seed and her seed4 ,it  
shall bruise thy head and thou shalt    
bruise his heel4  ,our critics have two 
objections to the interpretation that   
has always been given and maintained by 
,christian scholars and by the ,church  
as a whole4 ,first1 that the seed of the
 woman does not refer to the ,messiah1  
but to the human race1 which is to      
bruise the serpent's head4 ,second1 that
 the serpent engaged in seducing ,eve1  
and here placed under the curse1 does   
not refer to ,satan4  ,in replying to   
the objection that the ,messiah is not  
referred to in the passage1 let it be   
said that the pronoun is a pronoun      
referring to a person4 ,it is so        

translated in the ,revised ,version4 ,he
 shall bruise thy head and thou shalt   
bruise his heel4 ,it is not the human   
race1 but he1 an individual person4     
,this person was not to be the seed of  
the man1 but of the woman4  ,the        
announcing angel said to ,mary1 ,the    
,holy ,spirit shall come upon thee1 and 
the power of the ,highest shall         
overshadow thee3 therefore also that    
holy thing which shall be born of thee  
shall be called the ,son of ,god4 7,luke
 i4 #ce47 ,the child to be born was to  
be literally and truly the seed of the  
woman1 and that was the ,messiah1 the   
only person of the entire human race of 
whom that could be said4  ,we are not   
left1 however1 to an exegetical         
statement alone1 although that is       
absolutely unequivocal4 ,the promise was
 repeated to ,abraham1 to ,isaac1 to    
,jacob1 and to ,david4 ,the seed of the 
woman was to be the ,messiah1 the       
,christ1 triumphing over the power of   
,satan4 ,the race has not triumphed over

 ,satan1 but has been a failure4  ,the  
,holy ,spirit has settled the question  
in ,paul's ,epistle to the ,galatians1  
iii4 #af3 ,now to ,abraham and his seed 
were the promises made4 ,he saith not1  
and to seeds1 as of many 7or1 the human 
race71 but as of one1 and to thy seed   
which is ,christ4 ,on the human side1   
our ,savior was of the line of ,abraham1
 and ,david1 but was singularly and     
literally the seed of the woman1 being  
the ,son of ,god4  ,he called himself   
the ,son of man only in the sense that  
he was born of her who was of the race  
of man4 ,he ever claimed ,god as his    
,father1 and in a different sense from  
that in which men can claim ,god as     
,father4 ,his claim to be the ,son of   
,god was the claim to be equal with     
,god1 which no created being dare make4 
,the ,holy ,spirit further declares1 in 
,hebrews ii4 #ad2 ,for as much then as  
the children are partakers of flesh and 
blood1 he also himself likewise took    
part of the same1 that through death    

7his death on the cross7 he might       
destroy him 7,satan7 that had the power 
of death--bruise the serpent's head4 ,it
 was ,satan that inflicted death4 ,he   
was the first higher critic who changed 
and denied the word of ,god1 saying to  
the woman1 ,ye shall not die4 ,through  
his denial of the word of ,god1 he      
deceived the woman and brought spiritual
 death on the race4 ,this was the work  
of ,satan1 according to the ,new        
,testament teaching4 ,he is the same    
that ,god calls the serpent in the third
 chapter of ,genesis4 ,for the ,holy    
,spirit informs us1 in #b ,cor4 xi4 #c1 
that the serpent beguiled ,eve1 and     
states definitely who the serpent       
is--that old serpent called the devil   
and ,satan1 who deceiveth the whole     
world4 7,rev4 xii4 #i47  ,having ,god's 
testimony that the serpent and the devil
 are one and the same1 we are prepared  
for the mark which our ,lord puts on    
him1 ,a murderer from the beginning 444 
and no truth in him4 ,he had always     

sought to pervert and discredit the word
 of ,god4 ,he suggested to ,eve that she
 did not understand ,god's command2 she 
had taken it too literally1 which is a  
popular form of attacking the ,bible    
today4 ,yea1 hath ,god said ye shall not
 eat of every tree of the garden8 ,are  
you not mistaken8 ,and when he had      
injected the doubt into the mind of     
,eve1 had gained an advantage1 he seized
 it and boldly denied the word of ,god1 
,ye shall not die4 ,he is an artful     
critic and successfully did his deadly  
work4  ,hence1 the first great promise  
which ,god gave to the fallen pair1 and 
through them to the race1 set the seed  
of the woman1 the ,messiah1 in conflict 
with that old serpent called the devil  
and ,satan4 ,that promise is now in     
process of fulfillment1 and must reach  
its final consummation when ,john's     
apocalyptic vision is fulfilled1 ,and   
the devil that deceived them 7the       
nations7 shall be cast into the lake of 
fire and brimstone1 where the beast and 

the false prophet are1 and shall be     
tormented day and night1 forever and    
ever4     ,x4 ,,god ,,his ,,own         
,,interpreter4  ,to the law and to the  
testimony1 if they speak not accordingly
 to this word1 it is because there is no
 light in them4 ,isaiah viii4 #bj4  ,thy
 law is the truth4 ,psa4 cxix4 #adb4    
,thy testimonies that thou hast         
commanded are righteous and very        
faithful4 ,psa4 cxix4 #ach4  ,lead me in
 thy truth and teach me4 ,psa4 xxv4 #e4 
,the word of our ,god shall stand       
forever4 ,isaiah xl4 #h4  ,heaven and   
earth shall pass away1 but my word shall
 not pass away4 ,mark xiii4 #ca4   ,the 
destructive critics have assaulted the  
most precious prophetic scriptures4 ,it 
has been already stated that the final  
aim of skepticism is against the person 
of ,christ4 ,if the unbelieving world   
can be rid of both the prophecies       
concerning ,christ1 and the history of  
his life1 his sacrificial death and     
resurrection1 they will be rid of that  

stumbling stone which they have been    
pleased to call the much-abused         
supernaturalism4 ,hence1 the strenuous  
effort is made to destroy predictive    
prophecy concerning the person of the   
,son of ,god4 ,the fact that there are  
more than thirty-five prophecies1       
containing one hundred and thirty       
distinct counts1 concerning the birth1  
the life1 the teaching1 the death1 and  
the resurrection of our ,lord1 greatly  
disturbs the critics4  ,the prophecy of 
,isaiah ix4 #f has been troublesome4    
,the prophet foretold1 in distinct and  
unimpeachable language1 the coming of   
the ,messiah3 ,for unto us a ,child is  
born1 unto us a ,son is given3 and the  
government shall be upon his shoulder3  
and his name shall be called ,wonderful1
 ,counsellor1 ,the ,mighty ,god1 ,the   
,everlasting ,father1 ,the ,prince of   
,peace4  ,a critic who claims to be     
loyal to the word of ,god says          
concerning this passage3 ,the prophet   
always paints upon the canvas the events

 of the near future4 ,i can not believe 
that ,isaiah ix4 #f refers to a far-off 
event1 because it would not give comfort
 to his people at that time4 ,as this   
prophecy was given more than seven      
hundred years before the coming of the  
,messiah1 our critic concludes that it  
could be of no practical benefit to     
,israel1 hence1 must have referred to   
some person who must soon appear4  ,to  
affirm that this promise of the ,messiah
 long before his coming would not give  
comfort to his people is mere           
assumption4 ,the time of his coming was 
not announced1 and the people were to   
live in expectation of the event1 which 
expectation was to be their stay and    
comfort4 ,this assumption would vitiate 
the promise of his coming made to our   
first parents4 ,gen4 iii4 #ae1 the      
promises made to ,moses2 ,deut xviii4   
#ae1 the predictions made in ,psa4 xxii4
 #a1 #h1 #af1 #ah1 in which his cry on  
the cross1 the taunt of his enemies1 the
 piercing of his hands and feet1 and the

 parting of his raiment among the       
soldiers1 were all predicted4  ,the     
prediction that ,thou1 ,bethlehem       
,ephratah1 though thou be little among  
the thousands of ,judah1 yet out of thee
 shall he come forth unto me1 he that is
 to be the ,ruler of ,israel2 whose     
goings forth have been of old1 from     
everlasting 7,micah v4 #b7 was made     
seven hundred years before the coming of
 ,christ1 and1 according to critical    
assumption1 could not refer to our      
,savior1 because it would not give      
comfort to his people4  ,indeed1 no     
prophecy preceding the time of ,isaiah  
ix4 #f could be allowed to refer to     
,christ1 on the assumption of the       
critic4 ,more than this1 the prediction 
of ,christ's second advent is vitiated  
by this assumption4 ,it was more than   
eighteen hundred years ago that the     
angels said to the disciples who were   
steadfastly watching his ascension3     
,this same ,jesus who is taken from you 
into heaven shall so come in like manner

 as ye have seen him go into heaven4    
,was there no comfort to the disciples  
in the promise of his return1 though    
they did not live to witness it8 ,paul1 
enlarging on the promises of ,christ's  
return1 said to the ,thessalonians3     
,wherefore comfort one another with     
these words4  ,let us now consider the  
prophecy in its context4 ,the prophecy  
of the seventh and eighth chapters is   
projected on through the ninth4 ,the    
first verse of this chapter predicts    
some relief of the former sufferings of 
the people for their sins4  ,the people 
that walked in darkness 7verse #b7 have 
seen great light4 ,the prophet informs  
us who it was1 to whom this light should
 come4 ,the inhabitants of the land of  
,zabulon and the land of ,nephthalim1   
which embraced the region of ,galilee1  
in which the larger portion of ,christ's
 ministry was exercised4 ,matthew quotes
 this scripture as fulfilled by the     
coming of our ,savior4 7,see ,matt4 iv4 
#ab-af47 ,now when ,jesus had heard that

 ,john was cast into prison he departed 
into ,galilee1 and leaving ,nazareth he 
came and dwelt in ,capernaum1 which is  
upon the sea coast1 in the borders of   
,zabulon and ,nephthalim2 that it might 
be fulfilled which was spoken by ,esaias
 the prophet1 saying1 ,the land of      
,zabulon and the land of ,nephthalim1 by
 way of the sea1 beyond ,jordan1        
,galilee of the ,gentiles2 the people   
which sat in darkness saw a great light1
 and to them which sat in the region and
 shadow of death1 light is sprung up4   
,undoubtedly the prophet looked into the
 future1 when the coming of the ,messiah
 should bring the light of the gospel   
into that region so particularly        
described by him4 ,and the inspired     
writer of the gospel of ,matthew        
positively applies the context of       
,isaiah ix4 #f to our ,lord4 ,then1     
proceeding with the explanation as to   
how the light should break forth in     
,galilee of the ,gentiles1 the prophet  
announces 7verse #f7 that1 for unto us a

 ,child is born1 unto us a ,son is      
given3 and the government shall be upon 
his shoulder3 and his name shall be     
called ,wonderful1 ,counsellor1 ,the    
,mighty ,god1 ,the ,everlasting ,father1
 ,the ,prince of ,peace4  ,the reader   
may well investigate the language of    
this prediction1 for unto us a ,child is
 born4 ,the for is given as an          
explanation1 a reason for the coming    
light to ,galilee of the ,gentiles1 a   
region and a people that had been for   
generations in the shadow of death4 ,the
 light was to break forth because a     
child was to be born and a son given4   
,the announcement was made as if the    
event had taken place1 though so far in 
the future4 ,this is in accordance with 
the form of predictive prophecy1 as in  
the fifty-third chapter of ,isaiah1     
where the atoning work of ,christ is    
spoken of as already accomplished1      
though it remained to be achieved in the
 future4 ,the prophet said of that work3
 ,he hath borne our griefs and carried  

our sorrows4444 ,he was wounded for our 
transgressions4444 ,he was bruised for  
our iniquities4444 ,the ,lord hath laid 
on him the iniquities of us all4 ,so it 
is stated in this prophecy3 ,for unto us
 a ,child is born1 unto us a ,son is    
given1 for the promise of ,god is the   
same to him as the fulfillment4 ,his    
word is equivalent to his deed4 ,it cost
 him as much to purpose and pledge as to
 fulfill his pledge4 ,hence1 the        
prophecy speaks of the thing as done1   
since ,god has promised to do it4 ,seven
 centuries before he came1 the prophet  
said1 unto us a ,child is born1 unto us 
a ,son is given4  ,our critical friends 
can not inform us who was the ,son      
given4 ,they can only say it must refer 
to some near future event4 ,let our     
,book speak for itself4 ,it gives no    
uncertain testimony4  #a4 ,the          
government shall be upon his shoulder4  
,as already stated in the context1 and  
affirmed by ,matthew1 it is he that     
should bring light to the ,gentiles4    

,there is only one who is himself a     
light to lighten the ,gentiles and the  
glory of thy people ,israel4 7,luke ii4 
#cb47 ,he said of himself3 ,i am the    
light of the world4 7,john ix4 #e47     
,the government is his4 ,he is the ,only
 ,potentate1 the ,king of kings and     
,lord of lords4 7#a ,tim4 vi4 #ae47     
,there is only ,one ,potentate1 ,one    
,ruler1 ,one who could say1 ,all power  
is given unto me in heaven and in earth4
 7,matt4 xxviii4 #ah47 ,there is only   
,one who could say1 ,all things are     
delivered unto me of my father4 7,matt4 
xi4 #bg47 ,there is only ,one of whom it
 could be said1 ,of the increase of his 
government and peace there shall be no  
end1 and that is said of the ,child born
 unto us and the ,son given1 and is a   
part of the prophecy concerning him4    
7,isaiah ix4 #g47  ,all earthly thrones 
have crumbled1 all earthly kings and    
potentates have slept in the dust of    
death with the poorest of their         
subjects4 ,but of this ,son given1      

,daniel says3 ,there was given him      
dominion1 and glory1 and a kingdom1 that
 all people1 nations1 and languages     
should serve him2 his dominion is an    
everlasting dominion1 which shall not   
pass away1 and his kingdom that which   
shall not be destroyed4 7,daniel vii4   
#ad47  #b4 ,his name shall be called    
,wonderful4  ,his name means his        
character1 his person4 ,he1 himself1    
shall be called ,wonderful1 in a sense  
in which no other person can be entitled
 to that designation4 ,nicodemus        
accredited him as a wonderful           
instructor4 ,we know that thou art a    
teacher come from ,god1 for no man can  
do these miracles that thou doest1      
except ,god be with him4 7,john iii4    
#b74 ,his enemies that were sent to     
arrest him quailed before him1 and      
returned to the chief priests and       
,pharisees1 saying1 ,never man spake    
like this man4  ,a devout scholar has   
well said3 ,the manner of his birth was 
wonderful2 his humility1 self-denial1   

and sorrows were wonderful2 his mighty  
works were wonderful2 his dying agonies 
were wonderful2 his resurrection and    
ascension were all fitted to excite     
admiration and wonder4  #c4 ,his name   
shall be called 444 ,counsellor4  ,this 
term plainly indicated his exalted      
wisdom and dignity4 ,the wisdom of men  
comes to naught2 their counsel shall    
perish with them4 ,but there is ,one1   
who understands1 who declares the end   
from the beginning4 ,of him it is said3 
,the counsel of the ,lord standeth      
forever2 the thoughts of his heart to   
all generations4 7,psa4 xxxiii4 #aa47   
,he says of himself1 ,counsel is mine   
and sound wisdom 7,prov4 viii4 #ad71 and
 it was by his determinate counsel and  
foreknowledge that the glorious scheme  
of redemption and complete salvation    
from sin was planned and executed4      
,hence1 he takes to himself the title1  
,the ,great and ,mighty ,god1 444 great 
in counsel1 and mighty in work4 7,jer4  
xxxii4 #ai47 ,therefore1 the ,child that

 was to be born1 the ,son that was to be
 given1 was to have a name1 and his name
 shall be called 444 ,counsellor4  #d4  
,his name shall be called 444 ,the      
,mighty ,god4  ,and now we are face to  
face with the ,lord ,jehovah1 and the   
positive statement that this was the    
promised ,son4 ,by what guessing or     
critical legerdemain one who claims     
loyalty to the word of ,god and ordinary
 intelligence can attempt to sweep away 
these definite and determinate          
statements1 and crowd some insignificant
 worm of the dust into the place given  
to him who was in the beginning1 who was
 with ,god and who was ,god1 we can not 
comprehend4  ,and still the prophet     
rises to the climax1 to make sure that  
wayfaring men1 though fools1 shall not  
err1 and adds the prediction concerning 
the coming ,son that1  #e4 ,his name    
shall be called 444 ,the ,everlasting   
,father4  ,the ,revised ,version gives  
the same rendering as the accepted      
version1 and adds the marginal reading1 

,father of ,eternity4 ,the sense of the 
passage is the same4 ,the name          
,everlasting ,father was the name of the
 coming ,son4 ,he would be ,wonderful1  
,counsellor1 ,the ,mighty ,god1 not for 
a short time1 but eternally1 forever and
 ever--the same yesterday1 to-day1 and  
forever4 ,his care of his people would  
never cease4  ,the distinctions between 
the persons of the trinity were not made
 in the ,old ,testament1 as in the ,new4
 ,jehovah was ,god1 the ,lord was ,god1 
and was known as ,jehovah ,god1 the     
,everlasting ,father4 ,the incarnation  
of the second person in the trinity gave
 emphasis to his sonship1 in order to   
put him in brotherly relation to us4    
,wherefore he is not ashamed to call    
them brethren4  ,this prophecy of       
,isaiah1 however1 condescends to        
accommodate our weakness1 and necessity1
 and gives to the promised child the    
name by which he is recognized in the   
,new ,testament1 for  #f4 ,his name     
shall be called 444 ,the ,prince of     

,peace4  ,at the birth of the ,child the
 angel choir sang ,glory to ,god in the 
highest1 and on earth peace1 good will  
toward men4 7,luke ii4 #ad47 ,him hath  
,god exalted with his right hand to be a
 ,prince and a ,savior1 to give         
repentance to ,israel and forgiveness of
 sins4 7,acts v4 #ca47  ,isaiah spoke as
 he was moved by the ,holy ,spirit4 ,he 
gave to ,israel this assuring promise   
for their comfort1 that the ,seed of the
 woman1 the ,messiah1 was coming not as 
a fallible1 impotent ruler1 but as a    
,prince and ,savior4 ,israel failed to  
comprehend the glorious things          
predicted1 and even yet they are not    
fully unfolded4 ,but the ,messiah did   
not fail to come1 and1 as predicted1 he 
came at ,bethlehem4 ,every phase of his 
life1 and the mighty work of redemption1
 all that was predicted of his earthly  
career1 has been accomplished4 ,and now1
 at the right hand of the ,father1 he is
 moving to the final consummation of his
 purposes of redeeming grace4  ,he will 

not be moved from his purposes by the   
uncritical attempts of rationalism to   
destroy the confidence of ,god's people 
in his revealed truth4 ,we can move     
forward confidently in our work1 knowing
 that nothing shall pass from his ,word 
until all is fulfilled4  ,in this very  
brief study1 in which ,god has spoken   
through the testimony of his word1 we   
have only touched a few points in which 
the truth of ,scripture has been        
assailed4 ,but the testimony of the     
,book settles all questions4 ,we can    
well rest on the assurance1 ,forever ,o 
,lord1 thy word is settled in heaven1   
and can not be unsettled on the earth4  
,our ,sunday-school teachers and        
,christian young people can not fail to 
comprehend1 and will rejoice in the     
fullness and power of ,god's testimony  
through prophet1 apostle1 and ,christ   
the incarnate ,word4 ,to him be honor1  
glory1 and dominion forever4 ,amen4