This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1888 edition. Excerpt: ... and depth. They believe in the evil, which attributes to itself a power belonging only to God. They hold it to be inevitable, a view which maims the moral impulse, as it obscures the consciousness of guilt . On the other hand, in the 0. T. and far more decisively in Christianity, the consciousness of the victorious power of goodness shows that the hollowness and folly of evil have been seen through. It is recognized as springing from falsehood, maintaining itself through falsehood, and also as ending, through the manifestation of its falsehood, in judgment. Satan is already judged.1 5. The superficial conception of evil stops at the evil acts, and does not recognize the evil state in which it culminates, and from which the evil act again issues. On this view it appears as consisting in mere isolated acts2 of momentary significance. But the N. T. recognizes also inherent sin." According to the apostle, alienation from God is accompanied by an evil state. He speaks of deadness to the divine, of insensibility, of a hard heart and conscience, of an old man.4 Christ speaks in the same way.5 III. SIN AS A POWF.E IN THE HUMAN RACE, OR AS GENERIC SIN. 73i. According to Biblical teaching, the actual, like the inherent, sin of the individual does not stand as something isolated, but is in most intimate connection with the entire race. Literature.--Oehler, Tltcol of 0. T. I. 235 ff. [Clark]. Weiss, v.t supra, 67, 153. Ohsercation.-- As tbe generic character of evil is of the highest importance, both for a correct idea of evil and for redemption, it is worth while first of all to review the 1John xvi. 11; Luke X. 18. * [Blouse JCmzel/teil, mere individuality.] 3 inafTi* nxfi, Rom. vii. 8, is sin not yit active. Eph. ii....