The Failure to Interpret Scripture
By Editor
THE Old Testament Student, speaking of different schools of Biblical interpretation, notices the fact that there is very little exposition of the Bible given from the modern pulpit, and plainly intimates its belief that in less than one-twenty-fifth of the preaching is the proper interpretation of the text given. It then says: "Nor can this failure to make the correct use of Scripture be attributed to any other cause than to a failure to employ common sense. For the men who make this fatal mistake are the educated as well as the uneducated. They have within their reach all needed helps for ascertaining the true meaning. They doubtless often make use of these helps. And still they fail. These men have the judgment needed, the common sense required, but they, somehow or other, neglect to employ it. Why? It is for them to answer." We would suggest that if they cannot tell, the Bible may throw some light on the matter. Perhaps Isa. 29:13, 14 gives the correct answer.