Jonah's being three days and three nights in the whale's belly
(p. 23)."<5>


The preacher proceeds to brush aside the common--I had almost
said vulgar--apologetic pretext that Jesus was using ad
hominem arguments, or "accommodating" his better knowledge
to popular ignorance, as well as to point out the
inadmissibility of the other alternative, that he shared the
popular ignorance. And to those who hold the latter view sarcasm
is dealt out with no niggard hand.


But they will find it difficult to persuade mankind that, if He
could be mistaken on a matter of such strictly religious
importance as the value of the sacred literature of His
countrymen, He can be safely trusted about anything else. The
trustworthiness of the Old Testament is, in fact, inseparable
from the trustworthiness of our Lord Jesus Christ; and if we
believe that He is the true Light of the world, we shall close
our ears against suggestions impairing the credit of those
Jewish Scriptures which have received the stamp of His Divine
authority" (p. 25).


Moreover, I learn from the public journals that a brilliant and
sharply-cut view of orthodoxy, of like hue and pattern, was only
the other day exhibited in that great theological kaleidoscope,
the pulpit of St. Mary's, recalling the time so long passed by,
when a Bampton lecturer, in the same place, performed the