" From this
source had logically grown the idea that the intellectual rejection
of this or that dogma which dominant theology had happened at any
given time to pronounce essential, since such rejection must bring
punishment infinite in agony and duration, is a crime to be
prevented at any cost of finite cruelty. Still another service
rendered to humanity by the revisers was in substituting a new and
correct rendering for the old reading of the famous text regarding
the inspiration of Scripture, which had for ages done so much to
make our sacred books a fetich. By this more correct reading the
revisers gave a new charter to liberty in biblical research.[[388]]
Most valuable, too, have been studies during the latter part of the
nineteenth century upon the formation of the canon of Scripture.
The result of these has been to substitute something far better for
that conception of our biblical literature, as forming one book
handed out of the clouds by the Almighty, which had been so long
practically the accepted view among probably the majority of
Christians.
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