[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.]
Sia,—The view expressed by "Janus" appears to be strongly supported by Bishop GOre, from whose Jesus of Nazareth
J extract what follows : " Probably our grandfathers if not our fathers were able to approach the Gospels with the conviction that their writers, like all the writers of the Bible were supernaturally inspired, in the sense that the Holy Spirit directed and controlled their minds and even their pens so as to ensure infallible accuracy in what was written. The effort of the reader was therefore limited to finding out precisely what the words meant . . . most of us have been obliged to abandon this doctrine because it seems to be disproved by the facts."
The Bishop expands and further illustrates this view, but the above seems sufficient. I am of course aware that the Bishop would probably have opposed the Divorce Bill.— Sutton.
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