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DR. GREGORY SMITH, ON PSYCHOLOGY. 



without the other. It is not necessary for us to enter on any 

 discussion of the principles of biblical psychology. We may at 

 once admit that as far as the constitution of man falls within the 

 range of his own observation, we have no more reason to expect to 

 find in the Bible a revealed system of psychology than to expect to 

 find there a revealed system of physics. But Scripture distinctly 

 recognizes different elements in man corresponding with his difierent 

 relations to being, and leads us to look for the preservation of all 

 in future. It lends no support to the famous utterance of Plotinus, 

 who thanked God that ' he was not tied to an immortal body.' It 

 lends no support to the view that the body as such is the mark of 

 the soul's fall. ' May the God of peace himself ' (St. Paul writes 

 in his earliest epistle), ' sanctify you wholly ; and may your spirit, 

 soul and body, be preserved entire, without blame at the coming of 

 our Lord Jesus Christ. Faithful is He that calleth you, who will 

 also do it.' I Thess. v, 23." [Editor.] 



