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| Of the Depth of the Sacred Scripture, and Its Enemies.
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Chapter XIV.—Of the Depth of the
Sacred Scripture, and Its Enemies.
17. Wonderful is the depth of Thy oracles,
whose surface is before us, inviting the little ones; and yet
wonderful is the depth, O my God, wonderful is the depth.1103
| 1103 See p. 112, note 2, and p. 178, note 2, above. See
also Trench, Hulsean Lectures (1845), lect. 6, “The
Inexhaustibility of Scripture.” | It is awe
to look into it; and awe of honour, and a tremor of love. The
enemies thereof I hate vehemently.1104
Oh, if Thou wouldest slay them
with Thy two-edged sword,1105
| 1105 Ps. cxlix. 6. He refers to the Manichæans
(see p. 71, note l). In his comment on this place, he interprets
the “two-edged sword” to mean the Old and New Testament, called
two-edged, he says, because it speaks of things temporal and
eternal. | that they be not its enemies! For
thus do I love, that they should be slain unto themselves that they
may live unto Thee. But behold others not reprovers, but praisers
of the book of Genesis,—“The Spirit of God,” say they, “Who
by His servant Moses wrote these things, willed not that these
words should be thus understood. He willed not that it should be
understood as Thou sayest, but as we say.” Unto whom, O God of us
all, Thyself being Judge, do I thus answer.
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