423 A Test Fairly Applied
Suppose we knew that after “inspired” men had finished the Bible, the devil had got possession of it and wrote a few passages, what part of the sacred Scriptures would Christians now pick out as being probably his work? Which of the following passages would naturally be selected as having been written by the devil—“Love thy neighbor as thyself,” or “Kill all the males among the little ones, and kill every woman; but all the women children keep alive for yourselves?”