God Hath Spoken

By HARRIS DARK
Published by GEORGE W. DEHOFF PUBLISHING COMPANY MURFREESBORO, TENNESSEE
Copyright, 1947, by Harris Dark. PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Each author has his own individual literary style and critics of literature can identify the work of an author by the construction and diction of his writing. The Holy Spirit is the author of the Bible and he has a literary style peculiar to himself, which distinguishes his work from that of all human authors. There are certain literary characteristics in the Bible that are not found in any book written by man. It would be profitable to list a great number of them and show how they distinguish the Bible from every other book in the world.
One of the characteristics of the Holy Spirit’s literary style is the use of very long sentences, one of which I shall read for our text this morning. It is the opening sentence of the book of Hebrews: “God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets, hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds; who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high; being made so much better than the angels, as he hath by inheritance obtained a more excellent name than they.”
That is the reading of four verses but just one sentence. It is not easy to write such a long sentence that is easily understood, but this one is perfectly clear. If some high-school student were called upon to analyze this sentence and to underscore its principal clause, he would underscore these words, “ God hath spoken .” These three words, “ God hath spoken ,” are the principal clause in this long sentence, and they express a very wonderful and a very profound truth. If you will just remember these three words and let them dwell in your heart, meditating upon them both day and night, the fullness of their meaning will unfold to you more and more as the days go by.