The Authoritative Inscription of Holy Scripture. By the Rev. C.
H. Weller, M.A. (Blackie.)—This is a thorough-going assertion of the doctrine of plenary inspiration. "The inspiration of every word" is what the author contends for,—every word, be it understood, that the original author wrote in Hebrew and Greek. Mr. Waller is Principal of a Theological College, and Examining Chaplain to a Bishop. Does he impose these views upon the students whom he teaches, and the candidates whom he examines ? Hardly, we should suppose, the latter. The former is bad enough. If he sets them such a position to defend, he must arm them with a polemic stronger than we have yet seen on the side of Biblical infallibility. Are there not some passages which it is impossible to reconcile with each other without a special pleading more damaging to truth than a frank admission of error ? And even if the reconciliation could always, by hook or by crook, be effected, how would Mr. Waller account for the deliberate preparation and prearrangement, by infallible wisdom, of superficial difficulties so grave as to be positively provocative of doubt ?
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