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Title: The Bible hand-book: an introduction to the study of Sacred Scripture
Year: 1883 (1880s)
Authors: Angus, Joseph, 1816-1902 Hoyt, F. S. (Francis Southack), 1822-1912 Madden, Frederic W. (Frederic William)
Subjects: Bible
Publisher: Philadelphia, J. Fagan
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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Lord; and hence (adds Eusebius,) the hymns and psalms written fromthe beginning by the faithful, celebrate the praises of Christ, and attri-bute Divinity to him, Eccl. Hist. v. c. 27, 28. Matt, xxviii. 17. The duty of all classes to search the Scriptures, is clearly implied invarious passages of the Bible:* and it is interesting to know that theearly writers of the church enforce this duty in the strongest terms;Chrysostom and Jerome, and Origen and Agustine, all agree on thisquestion. They even affirm, that the cause of the evils of their times,is to be found in the fact that the Scriptures are not known. (See\ 144.) 349. These opinions are not authority, but they are evidence.These They prove that the interpretation now attachednot authori- to the passages of Scripture, which speak of theseienceevi truths, is such as commended itself to the judgment a 2 Tim. iii. 15: John v. 39: Acts xvii. 11, 12. Luke xvi. 29: Mattxxii. 29: Jchn xx. 30, 31: 2 Pet. i. 19; 1 Thess. v. 27 Kev. i. 3. i
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EXTERNAL HELPS—CHRONOLOGY. 243 of good men, who had peculiar facilities for ascertaining themeaning of the inspired volume. 350. Nor less important is the history of erroneous opinionson questions of truth. We first read, for example, of the title of universal Bishop (at Rome,)A.D. 606; of the canonical authority of the Apocrypha, and Vulgate, andtraditions as articles of faith, at the Council of Trent, in the 16th century;of the use of the Latin tongue in worship, to the exclusion of the ver-nacular in the 7th century (66G). Transubstantiation was first taughtin the 8th century. In the 11th, the Lords Supper was mutilated bythe establishment of communion of one kind. In the 12th, the doctrineof Seven Sacraments was first taught. The doctrines of the meritoriousvirtue of penance, of purgatory, and prayers for the dead, date noearlier than the 7th century, and were not positively affirmed tillthe year 1140. The power of granting indulgences was not claimedby the Popes till the 12th c

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