The Scripture is to be its own interpreter, or rather the S… - Richard Watson Gilder

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The Scripture is to be its own interpreter, or rather the Spirit speaking in it; nothing can cut the diamond but the diamond; nothing can interpret Scripture but Scripture.

Richard Watson Gilder

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Richard Watson Gilder (February 8, 1844 – November 19, 1909) was an American poet and editor.

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Alternative Names: R. W. Gilder

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Heaven from the hopeless doubter
The true believer makes:
Against the darkness outer
The light God's likeness takes.

I love her doubting and anguish;
I love the love she withholds;
I love my love that loveth her
And anew her being moulds.

From all the misty morning air, there comes a summer sound,—
A murmur as of waters from skies, and trees and ground.
The birds they sing upon the wing, the pigeons bill and coo.

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