Alleged Discrepancies of the Bible

Marriage, approved and disparaged, 289–90; with a brother’s widow enjoined and prohibited, 290. Mercy of Christ, is merciful and unmerciful, 119– 20; spares reed and wields rod, 120. Mercy of God, is unmerciful and merciful, 98– 100; his anger fierce and slow, 100–101; lasting and brief, 100–101; to fall into hands, fearful and not so, 101; laughs at, yet not pleased with sinner’s overthrow, 101–102; just and merciful, 102; hates some, yet kind to all, 102. Meribah, location, 365. Micaiah, ironical words to Ahab, 274. Michal, sons of, 375. Midianites overthrown, 392. Milton, description of hospital, 42. Miracles of Christ, proof and not a proof of divine mission, 124–29. Mission of Christ, peace and war, 122; universal and limited, 122–23; to Samaritans and to Jews only, 123; to fulfil and to redeem from law, 123– 24; to judge and not to judge world, 124.

Modes of representing Christ, despised and honorable, 129–30; uncomely and lovely, 130; a lion and a lamb, 130; high priest and a sacrifice, 130; vine and stone, 130–31; shepherd and sheep, 131; door and bread, 131; light of world, and men are lights, 131–32; foundation and men are foundation, 132. Moabites, punishment, 264. Molten sea, contents, 373; appen​dages, 413. Monarchy sanctioned, yet offensive to Jehovah, 229–30. Moral character tested by discrep​ancies, 46–47. Moral purity of Scripture, purity enjoined, yet impure ideas sug​gested, 146–47. Mosaic law, character, 413. Moses, self-praise, 247–48; name derived, 314; wife’s nationality, 335; family sent back, 345; fast, 345; decrepitude, 348; father-in-law, 348– 49; rank among prophets, 349; veil, 349; book received, 356; outlook, 364; commission given where, 368; fear of Pharaoh, 407.

Motherhood, blessed and to be ex​piated, 230–31. Mount of law, accessibility, 414. Mourning commended and discountenanced, 250. Murder, punishment commuted, 260–61; forbidden and sanctioned, 283–84. Naboth, sons’ fate, 349. Name of Christ, has divine name, and a city also bears it, 140. Names, plurality, 28, 312–13, 364–65; changes, 28; errors in, 34, 313; different forms, 313; derivation, 313. Nature, contradictions in, 41–44. Nature of future punishment, continued misery and end of consciousness, 202; wicked perish and righteous perish, 202–204; sinners annihilated, and annihilated objects still exist, 203; wicked cut off, and Messiah cut off, 203; wicked destroyed; destroyed persons yet living, 204; sinners destroyed; destroyed things exist, 204; sinners consumed; consumed things exist, 204–205; wicked was not, and Enoch was not, 205; wicked

devoured, and pious devoured, 205; God’s adversaries and widows houses devoured, 205; sinners devoured; persons devoured by forest, 206; wicked and righteous torn and broken, 206; wicked broken; things broken remain, 206; wicked blotted out; things blotted out exist, 207; wicked and righteous have an end, 207; wicked and righteous die, 207–208. Nebuchadnezzar, his encampment where, 368; nineteenth year, 389; dream explained when, 389. New, nothing on earth, 414. Obededom, nationality, 335. Obedience due to rulers, yet withheld, 290–91; due to masters, yet to God only, 291; to scribes, yet they must be shunned, 292. Objects, difference of writers, 20–22. Occupants of heaven, Christ only and Elijah also, 215–16; flesh and blood excluded, yet Enoch there, 216; publicans and harlots there, but no impure, 216. Offender rebuked privately and publicly, 292.

Officers, appointed when, 396. Officers, chief, number, 373. Omnipotence of Christ, all powerful and not almighty, 114–15. Omnipotence of God, power absolute and limited, 63–64; unwearied and weary, 64. Omnipresence of Christ, everywhere and not in all places, 117–18. Omnipresence of God, ubiquitous and not everywhere, 66–67. Omniscience of Christ, all-knowing and ignorant, 115–17. Omniscience of God, all-knowing and ignorant, 64–65; attentive and forgetful, 65; sleepless and slum​bering, 66. Omri, reign begun, 389. Ophir mentioned prematurely, 384. Oriental idiom, peculiarities, 26–27, 146–147. Oriental methods of notation, 25. Oriental modes of dress, 147. Other sources of discrepancies, condensation of

narrative, 22, 37; deficient knowledge of circum​stances, 37, 436. Overseers, number, 373. Parable of talents, 414. Paran, wilderness, location, 364–65. Park, Prof. E. A., definition of mir​acle, 126. Paschal offering, kind, 414. Passover, omission, 260; place, 368–69. Patristic view of intermediate state, 191. Paul, moral state; nothing good in him, yet Christ in him, 231; his boasting elucidated, 246–47. Pekah, duration of reign, 389. Penal object of discrepancies, 47. People, number, 372, 379. Perfection of man, saints perfect, and Paul not perfect, 169–70. Perseverance, final, of man, apostacy impossible, yet some fall, 170–72; Christians indestructible and destroyed, 172; called all saved, yet some perish, 172. Personality of Holy Spirit, an intelligence and an

influence, 141–43. Persons, discrepancies concerning, 311–356; slain, number, 373–74; another case, 374; sealed when, 394. Peter, residence, 369; denials, 407. Pharaoh, hardening of heart, 95–97. Piety evinced; profession a proof and not a proof, 231. Pillar of cloud, use, 412. Pillar of temple, length, 373. Pleasing of men practised and condemned, 292– 93. Polygamy tolerated and discour​aged, 293–94. Pomegranates, number, 373. Poor, favored and not favored, 294; present and absent, 349. Position of God, sitting and standing, 108. Potter’s field, purchasers, 342. Prayer, public and in private, 231–32; incessant and brief, 232. Predictions of Scripture, privately and not

privately explained, 147–48; sure, yet not always fulfilled, 149; divine promise absolute yet conditional, 149–50; promise to Judah fulfilled and not so, 150–51. Priests, dues, firstborn and firstlings, and not these, 294–95; designation, 350; number of classes, 379; time of consecration, 394–95. Produce of seventh year, for the poor, and for owner, 295–96. Promises, reception, 356. Property in man recognized and precluded, 296– 97. Prophecy. See Predictions. Proverb, origin, 396. Psalms, imprecatory, explanation, 270–73. Punishment. See Future Punish​ment. Purchaser of sepulchre, 350–51. Purity, 250. See also Moral Purity of Scriptures. Quotations of Scripture, passages and incorrect quotations, 151–52; passage and condensation, 152; passages and expansion, 152–53; passage

and inexact version, 153–54; passage and wrong reference, 154; forms of report, and variations, 154– 59. Rahab, case, 288–89. Ransom, amount, 375. Regeneration of man, he is active and passive, 166–67. Repentance of Esau, unable yet his duty to repent, 233. Repentance of man, his own act and God’s gift, 166. Resistance exemplified and interdicted, 297. Resurrection of man; dead raised and not raised, 198; resurrection universal and partial, 198–99; Jesus raised first; others raised pre​viously, 199. Retaliation, allowed and discour​aged, 297–98. Retribution, earthly; recompense here and hereafter, 183. Righteous, earthly lot, no evil, yet some evil, 172– 73; prosperity and misery, 173–74; prosperity a

reward and a curse, 174–75; poverty a blessing and undesirable, 175–76; riches a blessing, yet not to be desired, 175–76; wisdom cause of happiness and sorrow, 176; a good name a blessing and a curse, 176–77; righteous beg not, yet some beg, 177; possess the earth, yet are sojourners, 177–78; pilgrims and strangers, yet not so, 178; they surely live, yet some die, 178; are persecuted, yet not persecuted, 179; handled roughly, yet not touched, 179; their yoke easy, yet burdensome, 179–80. Righteousness, excess and deficiency perilous, 233. Robbery of Egyptians forbidden and countenanced, 298–300. Rulers’ knowledge of Jesus, 351. Sabbath, sanctioned and repudiated, 233–34; instituted for diverse reasons, 234–35; mentioned prema​turely, 384. Sabbath desecration prohibited and countenanced, 235.

Sacrifice of Christ, died for friends, yet for enemies, 132–33; laid down life and was murdered, 133. Sacrifices, appointed and disavowed, 235–36; expiatory, and not expiatory, 237. Sacrifices, human, sanctioned and stringently prohibited, 237–40. Salah, father of, 346. Salathiel, father of, 341. Salvation, extent, all Israel, yet only a portion saved, 212–13; universal and partial, 213–14; work of God and of man, 251. Samaritans, inhospitality, 352. Samuel, artifice, 104–105; firstborn, 346; visit to Saul, 352; judgeship, 407; meeting with Saul, 408. Sanctification of man through truth and through spirit, 169. Sanctuary, location, 369. Sarah, beauty and charms, 315–16. Satan, imprisonment, 355.

Saul, king, sons, 346; election, 352; death, 352– 53; family’s fate, 353; ignorance of David, 353– 55; journey, 370; reign, 389; anointings, 396. Saul of Tarsus, attendants hearing the voice, 352; position, 352. Schleiermacher, definition of mira​cle, 126. Science, discrepancies in, 43. Scriptures, comparison with classics, 53; inspiration, 145–46; moral purity, 146–47; predictions, 147–51; quotations, 151–59. Seedtime and harvest, 408. Sennacherib, army, survivors, 356. Sepulchre, time of visit to, 408. Service of God, with fear and with gladness, 240. Shakespeare, text, compared with that of Bible, 54. Shekels paid by David, number, 379–80. Shemaiah, sons, number, 375. Shimei, punishment, 255–56. Significations of word, opposite, 29. Sihon, heart hardened, 95, 97.

Simeon, cities and towns, 361, 364. Simeonites, number, 375–376. Similar events, identity, 35–36. Sin, forgiveness, all sin pardonable, yet some not so, 241. Sinai, relation to Horeb, 368. Sinfulness of man, none without sin, yet some sinless, 160–62; made upright and made sinful, 162; born sinful, yet infants sinless, 162–64; children of wrath and keepers of law, 164–65; sinners through Adam, and righteous through Christ, 165–66. Sinners’ feeling, fear yet no fear, 241–42. Sin-offering, of one kind and another, 241. Slavery and oppression, 296–97, 300–302; ordained and forbidden, 300–301; Hebrew slavery allowed and pre​cluded, 301. Slaves, emancipation, in seventh and in fiftieth year, 301–302; female, emancipated, and not so, 302. Solomon, tyranny, 355; destination of fleet, 369–

70; gifts to Hiram, 376; number of wives, 293– 94, 380; an​ointings, 396. Sons sharing estate equally and unequally, 302– 303. Speaker, upon a certain occasion, 356. Spices, time of preparation, 396–97. Spies, sent by whom, 345. Spirit of Bible above its letter, 45. Stalls, number, 374. Standpoint of writers, different, 20–22. Staves of ark, fixed and removable, 242. Stone removed from well, 356. Strange gods, character, 415. Stranger, treatment, loved and not loved, 303; impartially treated, yet not so, 303– 304. Strong drink allowed and forbidden, 251–252. Stuart, Prof. M., on future punish​ment, 212. Substitute for Bible not to be found, 57. Sun and moon ashamed, 415. Swearing and oaths countenanced and prohibited,

242–43. Taanach, conquered when, 391. Tabernacle, location, 370; premature mention, 384. Tabernacles, feast observed, 400. Tables of showbread, number, 374. Talents, number, 374; parable, 414. Temple, length, 374; number of vessels, 374; premature mention, 384; mount, 384–85; furniture removed, 397; erection, 408–409; mak​ing of vessels, 415. Temptation desirable and not to, 252–53. Testimony, premature mention, 385. Text of Scripture, not unsettled, 49–56; of Old Testament, 50–51; of New Testament, 52–53. Thermometer, illustration, 24. Things in ark, number, 380. Thnetopsychism, origin, 186. Thompson, Dr. J. P., on Oriental chronology, 25. Time, errors in, causes, 381–82; methods of computation, 23–26, 385–86.

Times, observance, may be, and may not be observed, 244. Timnah, relationship, 346. Trench, Abp., definition of miracle, 126, 127, 128. Trespass, recompense made to the Lord and to the priest, 244. Tribes, loyal, number, 377. Unclean birds, number, 380. Unity of God, one and a plurality, 68–70. Usury exacted of no poor man and no Hebrew, 304. Various readings, value, 44–45. Veracity of Christ, witness true and untrue, 121; received and received not testimony, 122. Veracity of God, cannot lie, and sends lying spirits, 103–104; denounces and sanctions deception, 104–105. Version of affair, 415. Vessels made for temple, 415. Visitors at sepulchre, number, 380–81; time of their visit, 408.

Voltaire, treatment of the Bible, 36. Wandering of Israelites, duration, 409. Washington, birthday, 23–24. Water of Egypt, changed, 415–16. Water on Mount Camel, abundant, 416–17. Wealth not to be, yet may be re​tained, 253. Wicked, earthly lot, long-lived and die early, 180; prosper and do not prosper, 180–81; see and see not divine glory, 181; sin with impunity, yet punished, 181–82; punishment affirmed and denied, 182. Wicked, treatment, hated and loved, 304; justified properly and im​properly, 304–305. Wisdom, profitless and valuable, 254. Witchcraft, treatment, punished and condemned, 305–306. Wives, foreign, repudiated, 397. Woman, a certain, nationality, 335. Woman, condition and rights, should be subject and bear rule, 306–307; should be silent, and may prophesy, 307–309.

Worship of God, beginning, 409. Xenpphon, Memorabilia, compared with the gospels, 22–23. Year, kinds, 24; beginning, 24, 397; fractions counted for whole, 24–25. Zebedee, wife, request, 341. Zebulon, name derived, 314–15. Zechariah, father of, 346. Zedekiah, relationship, 346; view of Babylon, 355–56. Zerubbabel, father of, 346; feast of tabernacles, 400.