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How to Master the English Bible - James M. Gray
James M. Gray
How to Master the English Bible
An Experience, a Method, a Result, an Illustration
Published by Good Press, 2022
goodpress@okpublishing.info
EAN 4057664622037
Table of Contents
EXPLANATION OF THE METHOD
PART II
THE PLAN AT WORK
PART III
RESULTS IN THE PULPIT
PART IV
EXPOSITORY OUTLINES
PART V
BY THE SAME AUTHOR.
PART I
THE STORY OF THE CASE
[Sidenote: The Bible like a Farm]
How to master the English Bible! High-sounding title that, but does it mean what it says? It is not how to study it, but how to master it; for there is a sense in which the Bible must be mastered before it can be studied, and it is the failure to see this which accounts for other failures on the part of many earnest would-be Bible students. I suppose it is something like a farm; for although never a farmer myself, I have always imagined a farmer should know his farm before he attempted to work it. How much upland and how much lowland? How much wood and how much pasture? Where should the orchard be laid out? Where plant my corn, oats, and potatoes? What plot is to be seeded down to grass? When he has mastered his farm he begins to get ready for results from it.
Now there are many ways of studying the Bible, any one of which may be good enough in itself, but there is only one way to master it, as we shall see. And it is the Bible itself we are to master, not books about the Bible, nor yet charts.
I once listened to an earnest and cultivated young man delivering a lecture on Bible study, illustrated by a chart so long that when he unrolled and held one end of it above his head, as high as his arms could reach, the other curled up on the floor below the platform. As the auditor gazed upon its labyrinthian lines, circles, crosses and other things intended to illuminate it, and gathered up the loins of his mind
to listen to the explanation following, it was with an inward sigh of gratitude that God had never put such a yoke upon us, which neither we nor our fathers were able to bear.
[Sidenote: The Vernacular and Bible Tongues]
And it is the English Bible we are thinking about, the Bible in the vernacular, the tongue most of us best understand. One is grateful to have studied Hebrew and Greek, just to be able to tell others who have not that they do not require either to hearken to our Heavenly Father's voice. He has an advantage as a scholar who can utilise the original tongues; but the Bible was not given to scholars, but to the people, and hear we every man in our own tongue wherein we were born
(Acts 2:8). It is not at all inconsistent to add that he who masters the English Bible is possessed of the strongest inducement to study it in Hebrew and Greek.
That which follows grows largely out of the writer's personal experience. For the first eight or ten years of my ministry I did not know my English Bible as I should have known it, a fact to which my own spiritual life and the character of my pulpit ministrations bore depressing witness. [Sidenote: The Bible in the Seminary] Nor was I so fortunate as to meet with more than one or two brethren in the ministry who knew their English Bible very