The  four  English  verbs  have  only  three  equivalents  in
Hebrew,  viz.,  tdl,  teach  and  say.  It  is  not  sufficiently
observed  that  this  defines  the  relation  between  ihe
Church  and  the  Bible  from  the  time  the  Law  (which
was  the  germ  of  the  Bible)  was  delivered  to  the  Cnurch,
and  that  the  relation  between  the  Church  and  the  Bible
is  the  same  to  this  day.  The  only  authority  wherewith
the  Church  (of  Israel,  or  of  Christ)  can  "bind"  or
**  loose,"  is  the  written  Law  of  God.  The  binding  (or
forbidding)  and  loosing  (or  permitting)  of  the  Rabbis
— the  authority  which  our  Lord  committod  to  His
Church — was  only  the  application  of  His  written  word.
The  Babbis   acknowledge  this  from  one  end  of    the


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Talmud  to  the  other  by  the  appeal  to  Scripture  which
is  made  in  every  page,  sometimes  in  almost  every  line.
