who profess to explain it to others, who have the divine knowledge of the Scriptures.
There are learned men who have a college education, but these shepherds do not feed
the flock of God. They do not consider that the excellencies of the Scriptures will
be continually unfolding their hidden treasures as precious jewels are discovered by
digging for them.
There are men who strive to be original, who are wise above what is written;
therefore, their wisdom is foolishness. They discover wonderful things in advance,
ideas which reveal that they are far behind in the comprehension of the divine will
and purposes of God. In seeking to make plain or to unravel mysteries hid from ages
from mortal man, they are like a man floundering about in the mud, unable to extricate
himself and yet telling others how to get out of the muddy sea they themselves are in.
This is a fit representation of the men who set themselves to correct the errors of the
Bible. No man can improve the Bible by suggesting what the Lord meant to say or
ought to have said.
Some look to us gravely and say, “Don’t you think there might have been some
mistake in the copyist or in the translators?” This is all probable, and the mind that is
so narrow that it will hesitate and stumble over this possibility or probability would
be just as ready to stumble over the mysteries of the Inspired Word, because their
feeble minds cannot see through the purposes of God. Yes, they would just as easily
stumble over plain facts that the common mind will accept, and discern the Divine,
and to which God’s utterance is plain and beautiful, full of marrow and fatness. All
the mistakes will not cause trouble to one soul, or cause any feet to stumble, that
would not manufacture difficulties from the plainest revealed truth.
God committed the preparation of His divinely inspired Word to finite man. This
Word, arranged into books, the Old and New Testaments, is the guidebook to the
inhabitants of a fallen world, bequeathed to them that, by studying a
