Dr. Harnack’s Misconceptions and the Cause of Them

At this point, therefore, the ways divide, and

we part company with the sceptics altogether.

For we recei ldTestament,-not — by the

grace of the critics, but upon the authority of our Divine Lord speaking with all the fulness

of divine wi ge. And this being so, we study His ministry and mission in the light of the Hebrew Scriptures. From Him we have learned to read them as “testify-. ing of Him,” as containing “the things concerning Him.” This is their esoteric teaching, deep down beneath the level at which the critics ply their tools. He came not to destroy “the law,” but to fulfil it; not, as Dr. Har-Cbristianized Rationalism

nack supposes, to deliver men from belief in the Jehovah of the Old Testament, but to confirm all that God had therein declared and promised in the past.

Years ago we were amused by a book about England and the English from the pen of a distinguished Oriental who had lately visited this country. The writer was a shrewd observer, full of good nature, and ready to take a kindly view of us and of our ways. But as, of course, he looked at everything from outside, his misapprehensions and mistakes were many. So it is with Dr. Harnack’s book. He has studied Christianity from the outside. His “Jesus? i sort o

tama, whose great and no j heart led toward the heht in the midst of prevailize ignorance and error, begotten of Old

Testament teach in “a narrow provincial

environment.