The Prophetic Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 1

4. MATCHES FINDINGS OF ARCHAEOLOGIST’S SPADE

The archaeologist’s spade has restored the long—lost—or at least long—unknown—supporting evidence of secular historical testimony in vindication of the Biblical record. In like manner, in the field of prophetic interpretation this systematic quest has brought to light these interpretations of the past. We believe that their issuance in this documented form will make a definite contribution to Christian evidences and apologetics. PFF1 12.2

And as the revealing clay tablets and papyrus rolls of old, and the priceless carvings in stone, had to be deciphered by the archaeologists in order to read their treasured messages, so have many of these rare expositional treatises been locked away in old medieval Latin, in unvoweled Hebrew, or in the early forms of German, French, and English. Some medieval manuscripts were written with almost unseparated words, and many of these in the difficult abbreviated forms of the Middle Ages. Many of these treatises had, therefore, to be translated by experts. PFF1 12.3