THE MEDIATION OF JESUS CHRIST A Contribution to the Study of BY MILTON S. TERRY, D.D., LL.D. Professor in Garrett Biblical Institute There is one God, one Mediator also between God and men, NEW YORK: EATON & MAINS 1903 ΤΟ TIMOTHY DWIGHT WHOSE INSTRUCTIONS IN BIBLICAL EXEGESIS AT THE YALE DIVINITY SCHOOL ABIDE WITH ME AFTER THE LAPSE OF MORE THAN FORTY YEARS AN INSPIRATION AND A DELIGHTFUL MEMORY PREFACE. MANY years of study in Christian doctrine have worked in me the conviction that the best method of conceiving and expounding the great truths of our holy religion is that which most accurately reproduces the ideas and teachings of the biblical writers. A scientific criticism of the books of the Old and New Testaments has prepared the way for a clearer and more thoroughgoing apprehension of their doctrinal contents, and has brought about a reasonable recognition of the progress of doctrine traceable in both Testaments. The conspicuous human element in the Scriptures is no longer so universally ignored as in former years, and students of the Bible are everywhere disposed to recognize the varieties of thought and style among the prophets, evangelists, and apostles. One has only to look into the old catechisms and text-books of dogmatic theology to perceive how much the modern Church has been accustomed to accept without question from mediæval and early Protestant scholasticism. Writers on Christian doctrine were once accustomed to cite their proof-texts at random from poet and chronicler, patriarch and apostle. So long as it was "in the Bible," it mattered not with the polemical dogmatist whether the text adduced were a "Verily, verily" of Jesus Christ, or an utterance of "Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite, of the family of Ram," 5 |