ABSTRACT
The Bible is the great source of knowledge of Religion, as Israel has conceived it. It is the great treasury of religious truth. It is on that account revered by many millions of men outside the pale of Judaism. The Jews have been called "the people of the Book," because the Bible, the Book par excellence, is their special inheritance. The Bible is not a book about science or any other branch of profane knowledge. In regard to scientific matters it reflects only the knowledge of the age in which each writer lived. The Bible can well dispense with external supports for its authority, seeing that reverence for its truth and sublimity is deeply rooted in the consciousness of the civilised world. The Bible, being the work of godly men, necessarily contains both a Divine and a human element.
