Christ in All the Scriptures by A.M. Hodgkin

• Title Page
• Introduction
• Christ in the Pentateuch
  • Genesis
  • Exodus
  • Leviticus
  • Numbers
  • Deuteronomy
• Christ in the Historical Books
• Christ in the Poetical Books
• Christ in the Prophets
• Christ in His Life on Earth
• Christ in Resurrection Power
• Christ in Future Glory

created it. It denies fatalism—God, here as everywhere, acts in the freedom of His Eternal Being (Murphy).

“‘In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.’ In that simple statement we have the Bible declaration of the origin of the material universe; and it is one in which faith finds reasonable foundation. Interpretation of method may vary, but the essential truth abides. In its dignified and sublime statement reason may rest as it cannot possibly do in any theory which leaves God out of the question and then finally declares that the, first cause was more or less the result of accident, or the existence of laws without mind, or of order without thought.”*

“As time goes on and thoughtful men come to know more about the truth of this marvellous universe in which we dwell, they approach closer and closer to Moses’ record. Never perhaps in the history of scientific investigation did Genesis 1 stand out so solidly and triumphantly as now.”**

If the harmony is not yet seen to be complete it is because we have still so much to learn. The theories of Science are continually changing and may clash with Scripture, the ascertained facts never do. In the same way our interpretations of the Bible may clash with Science because we may not interpret it aright, but the Divine record in Scripture will one day be seen to agree absolutely with the Divine record in nature. Meanwhile it is remarkable how one scientific discovery after another is proving the accuracy of the Scripture statements, clothed as they are in exquisitely simple language.

For instance, Herbert Spencer speaks of five factors as “the most general forms into which the manifestations of the Unknowable are re-divisible.” These five forms are Space, Time, Matter, Motion, and Force. The Holy Spirit has given us these five manifestations of God’s creative power in the first two verses of the Bible:—

“Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God; so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear” (Hebrews 11:3).

*The Analysed Bible, G. Campbell Morgan, D.D.

**Outline Studies in the Books of the Old Testament, W.G. Moorehead, D.D.

***The Conflict of Truth, p. 136. F. Hugh Capron, F.R.G.S.