...Scripture," it is this sacred Canon of books, which has remained in the Church from the beginning, ' profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, for instruction which is in righteousness.' To the question, then, What is Inspiration ? we have to answer, Precisely that which the Bible is....

...inspiration was familiar to the minds of the apostles, and of the people of that time. 2 Tim. iii. 16, " Every scripture inspired of God is also profitable...correction, for instruction which is in righteousness." This Scripture was, of course, the Old Testament. 2 Peter i. 21, "For the prophecy came not in old...

...to make thee wise unto salvation through faith in Jesus Christ. Every writing breathing the Spirit of God is also profitable for teaching, for reproof,...correction, for instruction which is in righteousness." Instead of having here the single dogmatic statement concerning an inspiration that superintends, we...

...Sacred Writings of the Old Testament in the verse following my text, he uses this striking language, " Every Scripture inspired of God is also profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, for discipline, which is in righteousness, that the man of God may be complete, thoroughly furnished unto...

...it is or was, would * Comp. 2 Tim. iii. 16. This verse is thus rendered in the Revised Version : " Every Scripture inspired of God is also profitable for teaching, for reproof, for corseem, like the genius of Shakspeare, to be unconsciously possessed. The phrase, " Thus saith the...

...though it could not be trusted to interpret itself. Its proper agency as a mirror and educator — as "profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, for instruction, which is in righteousness" — was displaced; and it was made an oracle, whose utterances could only be grasped through external...

...exempt them from the conditions to which other works would be exposed at the same place and time." "for teaching, for reproof, for correction, for instruction, which is in righteousness : " but under this presiding influence scope is left for the exercise, in different modes and ways,...

...inspiration of God." We do not quite believe that. In the new or revised version this passage reads, "Every scripture inspired of God is also profitable...for instruction which is in righteousness." .That is, if a scripture is inspired of God, then it is profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction,...

...passages ; but when we consider the position of the song in the sacred book ; when we remember that " every Scripture inspired of God is also profitable...correction, for instruction which is in righteousness; "when we remember the great value which many of God's saints have set upon this book, the great spiritual...

...the great proof passage (2 Tim. iii. 16) the context clearly shows that when the apostle affirms that "every scripture inspired of God is also profitable...correction, for instruction which is in righteousness," he is speaking of the Old Testament as a whole. It may be admitted that the New Testament does not...