Hodge’s
remarks on the perspicuity of the Scriptures is appropriate at this point:
The Bible is a plain book. It is intelligible by the people.
And they have the right, and are bound to read and interpret it for themselves;
so that their faith may rest upon the testimony of the Scriptures, and not on
that of the Church. Such is the doctrine of Protestants on this subject. It is
not denied that the Scriptures contain many things hard to be understood; that
they require diligent study; that all men need the guidance of the Holy Spirit
in order to right knowledge and true faith. But it is maintained that in all
things necessary to salvation they are sufficiently plain to be understood even
by the unlearned.4
4 Hodge, op. cit., Vol. I, pp. 183, 184.
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