The Bible Under the Microscope
One author contrasts the Bible and other men's literary works by
saying: "There is this great difference between the works of men and the works of God—that the same minute
and searching investigation which displays the defects and imperfections
of the one, brings out also the beauties of the other.
"If the most finely polished needle [made by man] ... be subjected
to a microscope, many inequalities, much roughness and clumsiness, will
be seen. But if the microscope be brought to bear on the flowers of the
field [made by God], no such result appears. Instead of their beauty diminishing,
new beauties ... are discovered ...
"The same law appears also in comparing the Word of God and the
most finished productions of men. There are spots and blemishes in the
most admired productions of human genius. But the more the Scriptures
are searched ... the more their perfection appears; new beauties are brought
into light every day; and the discoveries of science, the researches of
the learned ... all alike conspire to illustrate the wonderful harmony
of all the parts" (Alexander Hislop, The Two Babylons,
1959, p. 1). GN
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