How horrified the apostles, Peter and Paul, would have been to witness the deadly undermining of the Bible which, begun by freethinking men more than [two] hundred years ago, has become a naturalized epidemic, not only in Germany, France and Holland, but now in the English-speaking regions of the earth, growing self-confident, impudent and arrogant beyond measure, not knowing that God has forewarned of this turning away their ears from the truth and readiness of mind for fables.
Take their treatment of the Pentateuch in particular and of such prophets as Isaiah and Daniel. The infinite fact of a divine Person become flesh as truly as He is God is (with very few exceptions, to whom God may give deliverance) as nothing in their eyes, though of infinite value to those who believe and love as they know His love, God's love, to them. [22]