| Show DR BRIGGS overthrown the action of the Presbyter lao laa gen eral assembly last night la in on sustaining staining the appeal from the decision of the new york presbytery in the heresy trial of dr briggs puts that body on record as intending to maintain the inerrancy of the text of et the sacred scriptures dr briggs made the that this thin could not be proven for which he has been pronounced a he heretic retie the fhe NEWS would respectfully sug gest geet that the while controversy is not one of doctrine but of fact if dr briggs brigga be misinformed as to the merits merita ot of the received hebrew hi brew and greek texts of the scriptures his hie mistake can hardly be called callea heresy inasmuch as an he maintains that his hii doctrines doctrin ea ee are in conformity with tle the creed of his judge who having to deal with the tangible question of letters letten and words in an ancient record guht to find no difficulty in proving their point scientifically if they be right As the caw case now stands it almost gives the impression of an attempt by med leeval bigotry to silence by main force the voice of reason it is such actions that breed infidels in this century Is then the text of the scriptures an a we now have it free from errors erron the question is if as has been said one of plain fact A few instances instance may be given well known to every scholar holar Bc in 2 chron zi 18 mot most hebrew manuscripts read Beho Rebo boam took the son aon ot of Jeri Jert moth to wife Is ig this correct or should it be daughter both bath for ben in psalms 18 we read he received gitto gifts for mons men s which in eab iv 8 la is quoted ile he gave gifts unto men which is ia right the fhe present hebrew word Is ia la kaUa which some think an error fur fi chatak ta in ex axi 6 there is r an evident repetition of a while to those coee with which any modern proof reader is ie familiar the passage reade and thou balt ahalt put it before the vail that la is by the ark of the testimony before the mercy seat beat that is over the ow testimony aed jap f bishop lowth notices BB as many as fifty omissions omia aiona in isaiah all owing to the carelessness care lewner of the transcriber A singular instance of omission is found in 2 sam axi 19 ehtle the hebrew says behanan Bl hanan the son of caare aregim a slow lew goliath cohath the gittlee IP in this a comparison with I 1 fabron fC bron 6 5 shows the error for here we read sots son of baslaw labul lab mi the brother of goliath the 11 and then there are a few passages pasa ageg which no scholar of our time amine will deny are plain interpolations wilfully inserted ineer ted at first brat probably in the margin of the manuscript and then in the itself I 1 john Johnv v 78 isalin la an instance of this for there are three that bear record in heaven the Fht father herthe the word and holy ghost and these three are one and there are three that bear witness in earth the spirit and the water and the blood and these three agree in one onea 1 all the words in parenthesis are an evident interpolation in favor of the th Athan athanasian aslan doctrine of tri unity these are only a few instances cut of many how any scholar or anybody any body of men ou supposed p to be wath the bible in view of such facts can pronounce a brother a for stating that the text of the scriptures Is ia not dot free from errors is a mystery |
