The New Psychic Studies in Their Relation to Christian Thought. E-book. Formato PDF Franklin Johnson   -  Forgotten Books, 2017  - 

The prophecy was true the defenders Of our re ligion were celebrating their victory over the seep tical studentslof mind; but their joy was prema ture they had yet to meet the sceptical students Of matter. This second battle has been fought and won, and its dying echoes still sound in our ears. The seer who foretold it sought to arouse the lead ers Of the Christian hosts and prepare them for the coming conflict yet it may be said that they were taken by surprise, and that, had they heeded his warning in time, surveyed the field carefully, and made a wise disposition of their forces, they might have avoided many mistakes and much labor and loss.

The Quotations of the New Testament From the Old: Considered in the Light of General Literature. E-book. Formato PDF Franklin Johnson   -  Forgotten Books, 2017  - 

The principal difficulties which have been found with the quotations of the New Testament from the Old may be stated as follows:1. The writers of the New Testament, instead of translating their quotations directly from the Hebrew, and thus presenting us with exact transcriptions of the original text, have taken them generally from the Septuagint version, which is not free from faults.2. Their quotations from the Septuagint are often verbally inexact, and their variations from this version are seldom of the nature of corrections, since they seem usually to have quoted from memory.3. They sometimes employ quotations so brief and fragmentary that the reader cannot readily determine the degree of support, if any, which the quotation gives to the argument.4. They sometimes alter the language of the Old Testament with the obvious design of aiding their argument.5. They sometimes present in the form of a single quotation an assemblage of phrases or sentences drawn from different sources.6. In a few instances they give us, apparently as quotations from the Old Testament, sentences which it does not contain.