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Excerpt from An Answer to the Essays and Reviews
What, then, is the argument assigned for not interpreting Scripture literally? It is this - that there are several facts and doctrines therein stated which, when so interpreted, are Stumbling-blocks to a large proportion of educated men, i.e., facts which, with our previous belief and assumptions, appear to us to be, each of them, a contradiction in terms, and doctrines which are contrary to what our reason and experience would have led us to anticipate.
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