. God, the Bible, truth and Christian theology . GOD, THE BIBLE, TRUTH, periods, as Murray confessed, just as thebulk of the writings which now constitutethe Old Testament are at length proved tobe. This fact did not escape the notice ofthe bishops; but wedded to a system of thePraetorian guard, it did not occur to themthat it was expedient to separate the truefrom the false, the old from the new; andthey accordingly translated the whole ofwhat they had, treating it, however, as afigment by some ingenious Jew supposedto have lived before the advent of certain books were classed by s
. God, the Bible, truth and Christian theology . GOD, THE BIBLE, TRUTH, periods, as Murray confessed, just as thebulk of the writings which now constitutethe Old Testament are at length proved tobe. This fact did not escape the notice ofthe bishops; but wedded to a system of thePraetorian guard, it did not occur to themthat it was expedient to separate the truefrom the false, the old from the new; andthey accordingly translated the whole ofwhat they had, treating it, however, as afigment by some ingenious Jew supposedto have lived before the advent of certain books were classed by someof the fathers, as they are called (in manyinstances, indeed, fathers of superstition)among the apocryphal tracts, demonstratesnothing. Apocryphal does not mean spuri-ous, as the multitude is taught to believe:it means ^^hidden, that is, a book, orsomething else, concealed from the generallaity, because it contained truths about thetrue God within the soul of man which itwas not deemed advisable that the generallaity should know. As stated a
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