ABSTRACT
If the Bible is the word of God, communicated directly to humanity by divine inspiration, it is reasonable to expect that the men through and by whom it was thus communicated would have been aware of its divine origin, and that the writings thus produced would be distinguished or distinguishable from purely human and uninspired literature, and preserved and transmitted in their original purity and integrity. The Rev. Samuel Davidson, D. D., in the preface of his book The Canon of the Bible, says: “The substance of the present work was written toward the close of the year 1875 for the new edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica. The late Joseph Parker, D. D., in None Like It, P. 39, says: “The Christian church should welcome all the light and aid of the best scholarship in the elucidation of the Bible. The Bible as we have it was never seen either by the prophets or the apostles.
