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the ark, and the Flood came and destroyed them all. 1 If He 

 would put His finger on a fact in past Jewish history which, by 

 its admitted reality, would warrant belief in His own coming 

 Resurrection, He points to Jonah's being three days and three 

 nights in the whale's belly (p. 23 ). 2 



The preacher proceeds to brush aside the 

 coin iiion I had almost said vulgar apologetic 

 pretext that Jesus was using ad hominem 

 arguments, or "accommodating" his better 

 knowledge to popular ignorance, as well as to 

 point out the inadmissibility of the other 

 alternative, that he shared the popular ignorance. 

 And to those who hold the latter view sarcasm is 

 dealt out with no niggard hand. 



But they will rind it difficult to persuade mankind that, if He 

 could be mistaken on a matter of such strictly religious import- 

 ance as the value of the sacred literature of His countrymen, 

 He can be safely trusted about anything else. The trust- 

 worthiness of the Old Testament is, in fact, inseparable from 

 the trustworthiness of our Lord Jesus Christ ; and if we believe 

 that He is the true Light of the world, we shall close our ears 

 against suggestions impairing the credit of those Jewish Scrip- 

 tures which have received the stamp of His Divine authority 

 (p. 25). 



Moreover, I learn from the public journals that 

 a brilliant and sharply-cut view of orthodoxy, of 

 like hue and pattern, was only the other day 

 exhibited in that great theological kaleidoscope, 

 the pulpit of St. Mary's, recalling the time so 

 long passed by, when a Bampton lecturer, in the 



1 St. Luke xvii. 27. 3 St. Matt. xii. 40. 



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