Psalm 119 : 89
It is to some a startling fact that there is not in the known possession of any library, church, or individual a single original manuscript of the Bible. The autographs of the writers of the Sacred Book seem to have been lost. Perhaps the reason for the disappearance of the original sacred writing is not difficult to see to prevent them from becoming objects, first, of veneration and then of worship.
Yet the truly marvelous thing is that anypart of the Scripture remained at all, when it is borne in mind that subtle and severe attacks were made against the church of Christ by Satan and his hosts throughout the centuries. The first centuries of our era, particularly, were marked by many bloody persecutions of the Christians, but the one which was directed by Diocletian, the Roman emperor, in 303 A.D., against the sacred books was the hardest to bear. The edicts ordered that all these books should be search out and burned nevertheless, the Lord saw to it that, although many valuabke manuscripts were destroyed at this time and at others, copies were made and preserved. Carlyle tight said, "No lie can live forever'', but the precious Bible is still with us, and a ross its pages falls no shadow of decline or decay. Its very vitality proves its veracity.
Our Lord declared, "Heaven and earth shall pass away: but my words shall not pass away'' (Luke 21:33). It would seems as if men today are doing their level best to see to the fulfillment of the first part of the prophecy, with the terrible weapons that are being designed and manufacturec. In this atomic age the Bible shines all the more brightly and speaks all the more authoitatively.
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