Excerpt from Bishop Colenso and the Pentateuch, or the Bible in the Gospels: A Vindication of the Historical Character of the Old TestamentBut the worst phase of the subject is not presented even by such men as these pretenders, it is reserved for men who have sworn that they hold certain truths, to see how far they can perjure themselves, by overthrowing those truths they made oath they would defend, and to shew the marvellous elasticity of the thing called conscience.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.