Our Resource

IT is a remarkable fact that all the replies by which Lord overcame Satan are drawn from the book which is singled out by these men to be denied and refuted, that is Deuteronomy, with “for it is written” and “it is written again”; with the solemn expression “Man shall live by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God.” Satan must turn to Scripture too but not to make the Lord leave it. It was sufficient for the Lord as absolute authority, and for Satan to put him to silence and ever will be, though not for these modern doctors. It is sufficient for the faith of God’s people, and more than that, leads them into the depths of God’s own wisdom and grace. For human wisdom it is—fraud and poetry! We must remember that when the church and its doctors were in such a state that it is said by divine authority “from such turn away,” (2 Tim. 3) the Scriptures are given as our resource, able to make wise unto Salvation.
Zurich, June 8th, 1878.