If [the Bible] is, as we devoutly believe, the very source and measure of our religious faith, it seems impossible to insist too earnestly on the supreme importance of patience, candour and truthfulness in investigating every problem which it involves. The first steps towards the solution of a difficulty are the recognition of its existence and the determination of its extent. And, unless all past experience is worthless, the difficulties of the Bible are the most fruitful guides to its divine depths. It was said long since that 'God was pleased to leave the difficulties upon the surface of scripture, that men might be forced to look below the surface.'
Brooke Foss Westcott (1825-1901, Professor of Divinity at Cambridge, Bishop of Durham), The Bible in the Church (1864), p. x.
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