The difficulties found in connection with this subject arise from our thinking and speaking only of the human agent as the writer, instead of having regard to the fact that the word of God is the record of the words which He Himself employed when He spoke at "sundry times and in divers manners" (Heb. 1:1); and from not remembering (or believing) that "holy men of God" spoke as they were moved by the Holy Spirit (II Peter 1:21, Matt. 15:4,Mark 12:36, Acts 1:16, 3:18, 28:25, Heb. 3:7, 9:8, 10:15.
If we believe that throughout the scriptures we have the words of God, and not of man, all difficulties vanish. The difficulties are created by first assuming that we are dealing with merely human documents, and then denying the Divine Speaker and Author the right that is claimed by every human writer for himself.
It thus seems that man may take any liberty he chooses in quoting, adapting, or repeating in a varied form for his own previously written words; but that he denies the Divine Author of Holy Scripture the right to deal in the same manner with His own words. This is the cause of all the so-called "discrepancies" and "difficulties" arising from man's ignorance.
The Holy Spirit, in referring to words which He has before caused to be written in connection with the special circumstances of each particular case, frequently refers to them again in relation to different circumstances and other cases. He could have employed other words had He chosen to do so ; but it has pleased Him to repeat His own words, introducing them in different connections, with other applications, and in new senses.
All these things are done, and words are even sometimes changed, in order to bring out some new truth for our learning. This is lost upon us when we charge upon God our own ignorance, and the supposed infirmities of human agencies.
GOD BLESS
SOURCE: DR. BULLINGER, BIBLE SCHOLAR, TRANSLATOR OF THE MASSORAH, HISTORIAN.
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