One hundred years ago
THE correspondence about the infalli- bility of the Bible which the Times has inserted, has seemed to us unusually unprofitable. Hardly any of the corre- spondents go to the root of the matter. The thirty-eight clergymen say that the Church has taught from the first that the Bible is inspired. No doubt it has; but not that everything in the Bible is inspired. And how could the Church have taught with effect what the Bible itself on examination is found to invali- date? Who can read the preface to St. Luke's Gospel, and not see that St. Luke claims inspiration of the highest kind for the Gospel of which he explains the origin, but not at all for the accurate narrative of facts, of which he speaks like any other editor, as having taken great pains to get as accurate an account as he could.
The Spectator 9 January 1892
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