Citat ur brev från Hort till Westcott: I entirely agree – correcting one word – with what you there say on the atonement, having for many years believed that ”the absolute union of the christian (or rather, of man) with Christ himself” is the spiritual truth of which the popular doctrine of substitution is an immoral and material counterfiet, certainly nothing can be more unscriptural than the modern limiting of Christ’s bearing our sins and sufferings to His death; but indeed that is only one aspect of an almost universal heresy.”
I 1 Joh. 5:7 står det i KJV och Reformationsbibeln (Textus Receptus): “Ty tre är de som vittnar I himlen: Fadern, Ordet och den Helige Ande, och dessa tre är ett.” Här ser vi vad Hort skriver om detta bibelställe:
Hort skriver i ett brev: “1 Joh. 5:7 might be got rid of in a month; and if that were done, I should prefer to wait a few years.” (Life, Vol. II, p.128)
Hort till Westcott: ”I have been persuaded for many years that Mary-worship and ”Jesus”-worship have very much in common in their causes and their results…”
Westcott skriver tillbaka: “I wish I could see to what forgotten truth Mariolatry bears whitness; and how we can practically set forth the teaching of the miracles.”
Hort skriver: “I am inclined to think that no such state as “Eden” (I mean the popular notion) ever existed, and that Adam’s fall in no degree differed from the fall of each of his descendants.”
Hort skriver: “The pure Romish view seems to me nearer, and more likely to lead to, the truth than the evangelical..”
Hort till Westcott: “I remember shocking you and Lightfoot not so long ago by expressing a belief that “protestantism” is only parenthetical and temporary.” “Perfect catholicity has been nowhere since the Reformation.”
Hort till Westcott: “It is of course true that we can only know God through human forms, but then I think the whole Bible echoes the language of Genesis 1:27, and so assures us that human forms are divine forms.”