“The Bible needs no defence. The Bible defends itself; the Bible explains itself. I do not dread the pagans, I do not dread the infidels, I do not dread sceptics. I dread the false, compromising and conciliatory modern teaching in our Churches. That is the only thing that is to be dreaded. Let the Bible only be kept separate. As it is, it needs no defence… The Word of God is the sword of the Spirit, and who ever heard of defending a sword? It is the enemy who will advise you to put the sword into the sheath, a beautiful sheath with all kinds of metaphysical and artistic ornamentations. The sword must be unsheathed, for the sword is aggressive.”
– Adolph Saphir, The Divine Unity of Scripture