Just as Cardinal Bellarmine had insisted that the doctrine of the
incarnation depends upon the retention of the Ptolemaic astronomy;
just as Danzius had insisted that the very continuance of religion
depends on the divine origin of the Hebrew punctuation; just as
Peter Martyr had made everything sacred depend on the literal
acceptance of Genesis; just as Bishop Warburton had insisted that
Christianity absolutely depends upon a right interpretation of the
prophecies regarding Antichrist; just as John Wesley had insisted
that the truth of the Bible depends on the reality of witchcraft;
just as, at a later period, Bishop Wilberforce insisted that the
doctrine of the Incarnation depends on the "Mosaic" statements
regarding the origin of man; and just as Canon Liddon insisted that
Christianity itself depends on a literal belief in Noah's flood, in
the transformation of Lot's wife, and in the sojourn of Jonah in
the whale: so did Pusey then virtually insist that Christianity
must stand or fall with the early date of the book of Daniel.
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