Gaussen, Divine Inspiration of the Bible, 1841, p. 168. Of 19th c. text critical work he notes that “this immense toil has ended in a result wonderful by its insignificance, and (shall I say?) imposing by its nullity.”
And this “wonderful” insignificance and “imposing” nothingness or absence of efficacy is perpetually raised by critics of the KJB as if such insignificant and worthless labor should be considered necessary to read and understand the Holy Scriptures, and even worse, to usurp the authority of the Bible.
Gaussen writes,
“In truth,” says a learned man of our day, “ but for those precious negative conclusions that people have come to, the direct result obtained from the consumption of so many men’s lives and in these immense researches may seem to amount to nothing; and one may say that in order to come to it, time, talent, and learning have all been foolishly thrown away.” Wiseman’s Discourse on the Relations, etc., I. Disc. 10.
Such is the futility of those who have given their lives to reducing the Scripture to a common, corrupted book. Scholarly, gifted minds foolishly wasted in the pursuit of insignificance and nothingness.
How is it possible that modern Evangelicalism places any credibility in this “wonderful” scholarly void.
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