GOD'S WORD | AdventAI

Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Apr 14, 1881

GOD'S WORD.

It is a singular mistake to suppose that the sin of the Pharisees and scribes was in clinging to the law without “progress” in its interpretation. Their condemnation by our Lord was on the ground that they “made void the law by their traditions.” That is to say, they had discerned so much “new light breaking forth out of God’s word,” and had piled it up in such Talmudic heaps on the pure and simple Old Testament as to hide and quench it. It is precisely what so many “free” and “liberal” souls who have outgrown the gospel, are doing to-day. They are substituting commentary for Scripture, superseding the commandments of God by the traditions of men. The Pharisee was accused, because he thought he could improve upon the Bible. And the very last warning of the New Testament is, “If any man shall add unto these things, God shall add unto him the plagues that are written in this book.”—Christian Intelligencer.