Questions on Chapter 6.

intelligent beings swarming upon its surface, would resemble some lost vessel drifting wildly upon the broad ocean, having lost her rudder and compass, her log-book and reckoning; so that no one aboard could tell from what port he set sail, to what point of the compass he was drifting, or to what haven he was bound. Even so, deny the authenticity of that time-honored record; demolish, by a puff of sarcasm, that Heaven-attested and Heaven-preserved scroll laid up by the side of the ark; extinguish, by a blast of infidel sneer, that luminary lifted up in the wilderness by the hand of Moses, and as the anxious inquirer ascends the stream of time, passing through centuries, in search for the birth of creation and the origin of our race, a darkness, thick as that of Egypt, settles upon his vision, and he is lost amid the Cimmerian clouds. “As Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness” — a type of the Saviour of the world elevated upon the cross for the salvation of all who will look to him by faith — even so did he receive from the hand and from the mouth of God the “tables of stone” and “the book of the law,” whose principles of eternal and immutable truth are destined to triumph over the ravages of time, and enlighten and warm with their effulgent beams the most benighted regions and the latest generations of earth. The Pentateuch of Moses, like “the burning bush” on Mount Horeb, though ever enveloped in the flames of persecution, remains, and shall forever remain, “unconsumed.”

QUESTIONS ON CHAPTER 6.

QUESTION 1. What four things are claimed for the Scriptures, as to their authority?

2. What does each of these terms imply?

3. Have authors been harmonious in the use of these terms?

4. Do genuineness and authenticity imply inspiration?

5. To what then do they amount?

6. By what mode of argument are the genuineness and authenticity of the Scriptures established?

7. Have the writings of Moses ever been attributed to any other author?

8. What sources of evidence are appealed to, as proving that Moses wrote the Pentateuch?

9. What Egyptian authors testified that Moses was the author of these writings? What Greeks? What Romans?

10. How may the genuineness and authenticity of these books be proved internally?

11. What is Mr. Leslie’s argument?

12. How is it proved that our Old Testament is the same originally given the Jews?

13. What testimony is given on the subject by Christ and his apostles?