Excerpt from Biblical Inspiration and Christ For it is evident that if we confine ourselves to the words inspiration, fieomeuaria, we still have no standard by which to distinguish the Bible from scores of other books. According to its primary meaning, in Spiration is not confined to the Bible. It exists and works wherever God breathes life and power into men. A work of genius is inspired. A good life is inspired. A deed of heroism is an inspiration. St. John's gos pel is inspired, but so are the Iliad, and Hamlet and the Divina Commedia. And yet it is entirely consist ent with this to say that the peculiar quality of Biblical inspiration is higher than the inspiration of these works. And imparts to the Bible a character which belongs to none of them. What this peculiar element is, is the thing we want to know. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.