“Jehová, él es nuestro Dios; Sus juicios están en toda la tierra. 15 Él hace memoria de su pacto perpetuamente, Y de la palabra que él mandó para mil generaciones; 16 Del pacto que concertó con Abraham, Y de su juramento a Isaac; 17 El cual confirmó a Jacob por estatuto, Y a Israel por pacto sempiterno, 18 Diciendo: A ti daré la tierra de Canaán, Porción de tu heredad. 19 Cuando ellos eran pocos en número, Pocos y forasteros en ella, 20 Y andaban de nación en nación, Y de un reino a otro pueblo, 21 No permitió que nadie los oprimiese; Antes por amor de ellos castigó a los reyes. 22 No toquéis, dijo, a mis ungidos, Ni hagáis mal a mis profetas. 23 Cantad a Jehová toda la tierra, Proclamad de día en día su salvación. 24 Cantad entre las gentes su gloria, Y en todos los pueblos sus maravillas. 25 Porque grande es Jehová, y digno de suprema alabanza, Y de ser temido sobre todos los dioses. 26 Porque todos los dioses de los pueblos son ídolos; Mas Jehová hizo los cielos. 27 Alabanza y magnificencia delante de él; Poder y alegría en su morada. 28 Tributad a Jehová, oh familias de los pueblos, Dad a Jehová gloria y poder. 29 Dad a Jehová la honra debida a su nombre; Traed ofrenda, y venid delante de él; Postraos delante de Jehová en la hermosura de la santidad. 30 Temed en su presencia, toda la tierra; El mundo será aún establecido, para que no se conmueva. 31 Alégrense los cielos, y gócese la tierra, Y digan en las naciones: Jehová reina. 32 Resuene el mar, y su plenitud; Alégrese el campo, y todo lo que contiene. 33 Entonces cantarán los árboles de los bosques delante de Jehová, Porque viene a juzgar la tierra. 34 Aclamad a Jehová, porque él es bueno; Porque su misericordia es eterna. 35 Y decid: Sálvanos, oh Dios, salvación nuestra; Recógenos, y líbranos de las naciones, Para que confesemos tu santo nombre, Y nos gloriemos en tus alabanzas. 36 Bendito sea Jehová Dios de Israel, De eternidad a eternidad.”
Cyrus Ingerson Scofield was an American theologian, minister and writer. During the early twentieth century, his best-selling annotated Bible popularized dispensationalism among fundamentalist Christians.
President Grant appointed him United States Attorney for Kansas in 1873. He worked as a lawyer in Kansas and Missouri from 1869 to 1882. He was converted at 36, he was ordained to the Congregational ministry in 1882, and served as pastor of the First Church, Dallas, Texas (1882-1895), and again (1902-1907); and of the Moody Church, Northfield, Massachusetts (1895-1902).
Through the influence of private talks with Hudson Taylor of the China Inland Mission and also a book by a brilliant journalist traveler, William Eleroy, Scofield established the Central American Mission in 1890. Later years were spent lecturing on biblical subjects on both sides of the Atlantic. Hundreds of thousands have appreciated and use his famous Scofield Reference Bible, the work for which he is best remembered.
Cyrus Ingerson Scofield was an American theologian, minister and writer. He was born in Lenawee County, Michigan, but during the American Civil War he served for a year as a private in the 7th Tennessee Infantry, C.S.A.. By 1866 he was in St. Louis, Missouri working in his brother-in-law's law office. Admitted to the Kansas bar in 1869, he was elected to the Kansas legislature as a Republican in 1871 and 1872 and was appointed U.S. attorney for the district of Kansas.
After his conversion to evangelical Christianity in 1879, Scofield assisted in the St. Louis campaign conducted by Dwight L. Moody and served as the secretary of the St. Louis YMCA. Significantly, Scofield came under the mentorship of James H. Brookes, pastor of Walnut Street Presbyterian Church, St. Louis, a prominent dispensationalist premillennialist.
Scofield's correspondence Bible study course was the basis for his Reference Bible, an annotated, and widely circulated, study Bible first published in 1909 by Oxford University Press. Scofield's notes teach dispensationalism, a theology that was in part conceived in the early nineteenth century by the Anglo-Irish John Nelson Darby, who like Scofield had also been trained as a lawyer.
Scofield died at his home in Douglaston, Long Island, in 1921.