IN an age like our own, when tolerance is reckoned supreme among the virtues of a theologian, and dogma is at a discount, some of the sayings of the Apostles are apt to appear over-emphatic, finding little or no response in the modern conscience. But if the reason be in part because there is no “deep” in the average present-day convictions to “answer to” the deep of the inspired writers, something also must be conceded to the strangeness of an ancient
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