1. _By being stereotyped into Dead Languages._—A living language is
ever changing the meaning of its words; and truth written in it is in
danger of being misunderstood by another generation. But the words of
a dead language, like the Hebrew and the Greek, are fixed in their
meaning, and once understood are not likely to be perverted. Soon after
the Bible was completed, both its languages ceased to be spoken, and
have been kept since as the shrine for the great truths contained in
the Word.
2. _By being translated into Living Languages._—The Bible has been
translated into all the tongues of earth, and thus its perpetuation
to the end of time has been assured. No other work has been read by
so many races, and no other is so capable of being understood by the
masses of mankind.
3. _By being incorporated into Literature._—If every copy of the
Scriptures in the whole world were destroyed every sentence of it could
be reproduced from the writings of men, since it has become an integral
part of the thought of the world.
4. _By being perpetuated in Institutions._—The Jewish church
perpetuates the Old Testament; the Christian church the New; and while
either endures, the Bible containing the divine revelation must endure.