The Bible and Error

Error is often plausible, and the most ensnaring errors are those which have an obvious resemblance to truth. Even though the outside coating is not brass, but real gold, the leaden coin is none the less counterfeit; and, like the devil's temptation, wrapped up in a Scripture saying, many false doctrines come nowadays with a sacred or spiritual glamor around them, quoting texts and uttering Bible phrases. But the question is not, who has a text on his side? but, who has the Bible? Not, who can produce certain sentences torn from their connection, and reft of the purport which that connection gives them; but, looking at Scripture in its integrity—having regard to its general drift, as well as the bearing of these special passages— who is it that makes the fairest appeal to the statute-book of heaven?