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iii. Apparent interpolations, glosses, etc., showing editorial 



manipulations of the writings, and destroying the 

 claims to antiquity and unity of authorship made by 

 the writings themselves, or made for them by the 

 older school of expositors. 



iv. High ideals of personal and national life alleged to be 



impossible to the Hebrew nation in the early stages 

 of its history, calling for a rearrangement and 

 redating of the records in order to a reconstruction of 

 that history. 



V. Advanced conceptions of the nature and attributes of 

 the Deity which require to be accounted for, as the 

 result of a long process of development and training, 

 and which it is alleged cannot be reasonably assigned 

 to the dawn of Hebrew national life. 



vi. The claim to an extraordinary supernatural insight into 

 the past, present and future, and into both the invisible 

 and material worlds made by, or on behalf of, the sacred 

 writers of both Testaments, which do not fall within the 

 limits of the ordinary operations of human reason, and 

 which by the adoption of new modes of critical ex- 

 position, need no longer be retained as an integral part 

 of the Christian faith. 



vii. The alleged incredibility of the present exact adjust- 



ment of character to life, miracle to doctrine, etc., 

 presented by the IN'ew Testament records of the 

 person and work of our Lord Jesus Christ, and the 

 alleged unreasonableness of attributing the description 

 of such a transcendent personality to writers in 

 immediate and sympathetic contact with the effete and 

 corrupt Judaism of His day. 



viii. The miraculous and supernatural events and predictions 



recorded in both Testaments, and the miraculous and 

 supernatural assistance claimed by and for the writers, 

 in the production of the records, 

 ix. The exercise of supernatural spiritual power attributed 

 to the Apostles and other early Christians in the 

 practice and promulgation of the Christian life and 

 faith, and the claim made by many proiessed Christians 

 of the present day to an experience similar in many 

 respects in kind, if not in degree. 



These are some of the difficulties, or groups of difficulties, 

 with which modern Biblical exegesis is required to deal, and 



