May 14, 2007

Humility and Interpretation

"An humble docility of spirit is one of the first requisites to the discernment of divine truth. Under the divine teaching promised to believing prayer, a babe may comprehend, what a philosopher, who scorns to ask the promised illumination, may misconceive and pervert to his destruction."

Ralph Wardlaw, Two Essays (Glasgow, 1830), p. 294.

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