Doubtless all facts and all science must confirm the Word of God; but the Word of God does not need them to prove that itself is divine. If it did, what would become of those who understand nothing of science and history? Persons who dabble much in one or the other, for the purpose of confirming the Scriptures, have never reaped anything but the scantiest gleanings, as far as the Scripture harvest is concerned. It is another thing if a person feeds upon the Word, grows in the knowledge of the Scripture, and then is called on, in the course of duty, to take up what men say about it; he will find that there is nothing, even down to the most recent discoveries of science, which does not pay unwitting obeisance to Scripture.
A believer that takes his stand on Scripture, looking up to God, and using whatever means are given through the Word and Spirit of God, has the real vantage ground: his confidence is in God, and not in the discoveries or thoughts of men. The man that is searching here below is subject to all the uncertainty and mists of this lower world. He who derives his light from the Word of God has a sun brighter than at noonday; and, therefore, just as far as he is subject to it, he will not, he cannot, stray. And the Spirit of God is able and willing to produce this subjection in us.
We all do stray, more or less, as a fact; but the reason is not from any defect in the Word of God, or any lack of power to teach on the part of the Holy Ghost. If we err, it is because we have not sufficiently simple faith in the perfectness of Scripture, and in the blessed guidance which the Spirit loves to exercise in leading us into all truth.
Extract From “Notes on Daniel” by William Kelly, p. 107, 108.