The Effect

People often confound the effect produced on man, the effect which makes him own the truth and the authority of the word, with a judgment passed by man upon this word, as upon a matter submitted to him. Never could the word be thus presented as subject to human judgment: it would be to deny its own nature; it would be to say that it is not God who speaks. Could God say that he is not God? If this cannot be no more could he speak and admit that his word has not its own authority