On the present Translation PART II. SYNOPSIS OF THE APOSTOLIC EPISTLES. General Division of the Syriac Testament. The Gospels, Acts, PROLEGOMENA. PART I ANCIENT TRANSLATIONS OF THE HOLY SCRIPTURES. PART II. SYNOPSIS OF THE APOSTOLICAL EPISTLES. PROLEGOMENA. PART I. ANCIENT TRANSLATIONS OF THE HOLY SCRIPTURES. WHAT light is in the natural world, that the revelation of truth existing in the Bible is in the world of the human mind. Revelation does more indeed for the mind than light can do for the eye, since it brings to us an inward realization of God. He who believeth hath the witness in himself. To him the presence of the Bible is a demonstration of the divine goodness, as literal as that which the eye discerns in the sunbeams. He who at the beginning said, "Let there be light," has, by his Spirit's work in the scriptures, provided for the inner universe the perennial radiance of truth, and "hath shined into our hearts, to give us the knowledge of his glory in the face of Jesus Christ." For the mind, then, to be without this revelation, is a privation infinitely worse than physical blindness. The blind cannot participate in the advantages of a thousand forms of enterprise, or the pleasure afforded by the magnificent scenes which the sun bathes with splendour, nor peruse the innumerable objects of interest presented by the transient spectacle of life; but the soul, without the illumination of religion, suffers a gloom innate, desolate, and hopeless, because atheistic. If there be no light within, how great is the darkness! The very faculty of B |