Nor are those in the Acts and in the Gospels any better.

If we take free leave to canvass them, it may appear that not one quotation in ten is sensible and appropriate.

And shall we then accept the decision of the New Testament writers as final, concerning the value and credibility of the Old Testament, when it is so manifest that they most imperfectly understood that book?
In fact the appeal to them proved too much.

For Jude quotes the book of Enoch as an inspired prophecy, and yet, since Archbishop Laurence has translated it from the Ethiopian, we know that book to be a fable undeserving of regard, and undoubtedly not written by "Enoch, the seventh from Adam." Besides, it does not appear that any peculiar divine revelation taught them that the Old Testament is perfect truth.

In point of fact, they only reproduce the ideas on that subject current in their age.