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Do
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B
IBLE readers
may be divided into three classes:
Those who do not read the Bible at all. Those who read the Bible only in church or on Sundays, under stress of emotion, or as a daily devo
If it had been couched in the langu= age of our park by-laws, Here ends
Heinemann's 'have pu-my quarrel. blished the Bible, with- out chapters or verses, to be read just as an
tion. Those who read the lifble os ordinary book. It is
they would any other book."
Let me dent with the second Is fere not a con- category first. fusion of thought in treating the Bible as though it were a part of what used to be considered Sunday clothes?
This Book, which is the principal reading in church, must, there is unything in religion, be at least as good as any other book for reading out of church. "Noi necessarily," you way; "other books might be belter literature."
not. They might. But they are The Bible, particularly the English version of it, is the greatest piece of Literature in the world.
It is better than Aeschylus, Homer, Dante. It is better than anything else in the English langunge.
whole of Milton's IN the
“Paradise Lost" there is nothing which can stund up ngainst the sublimity of:
Cunst thou bind the sweet In- Auences of Pleiades, or loose the bands of Orlon?
There is nothing in Wordsworth's
roviewed here by
JAMES
AGATE
edged it, round-cornered 1, limp- covered it, annotated and cross- referenced it, and so set it apart from all other reading matter that when one cusis one's eye along one's shelves in search of something to read, one instinctively passes over the Bible.
This is accounted for partly by the appearance of the Bible, and partly by some old inherited notion of this not being a book for secular reading, Charles Launb
ones wrote of "books which are no
no books," 1 which he Included Court Calendars. Directories, Fuckēt Books, Draught Boards, bound and lettered on the
Tus edition treats the "Bible for whn it is a collection |of lyric poetry, dramatic and elegiac poetry, history, tales, philosophic trentists, collections of proverby and letters.
The prrangement is by time and subject-matter, prose is printed as 'prose, verse as verny, and so on, and the tiresome genealogies are omitted. The type is benutitul and the whole. make-up dignified. There are some extraordinarily useful explanations, and this edition gets over the diffleul- ty concerning Ecclesiastes.
With all my heart and soul I have always rejected such teaching ost→→→
The dead low not any thing. nelther have they any more a
for reward: the memory of them is forgotten. As well their love, as their haired and their envy, is now perished; neither have they any more a portion for ever In any thing that is done under the sun.
With what vellef, and what joy, then, does one read that because of the general tone of Ecclesiastes this has always been the favourite book of the Bible among unbelievers. 10 All honour Mr. Bules for tell- ing us that without this book's erron- cous
ascription to King Solomon 11 would hardly have found a place among the Jewish Sacred Serptures
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It is a sober fact that ninety-nine people out of every hundred, when century A.D. It was excluded from they run their eyes over a bookshelf, the Jewish canon of Scripture. us little think of reading the Bible as they do those draught boards,
The new edlilon is Intended to re- move this reprouchi.
For I know that my redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth:
And though after iny skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God. There is nothing in Shakespeare to quarrel with him when, in his intro- stand up against the drama of:
duction, he writes:
While he was yet speaking, there came also another, and suld.
Thy sons and thy daughters were eating and drinking wine lu their eldest brother's house:
And, behold, there came grent wind from the wilderness, und smote the four corners of the house, and it fell upon the young men, and they are dead; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee,
Then Job arose, and rent his mantle, and shaved his head, and fell down upon the ground, and worshipped,
And said, Naked came I out of my mother's womb and naked shall return thither: the Lord gave, and the Lord hath taken nway; blessed be the name of the Lord.
The reader realises, of course, that these three passages are taken from one book only the Book of Job.
So much for the second category. Our first, let me recall, was made up of the people who do not read the Bible, which includes those who have never read it,
I remember making a bet that I would ask six young men under twenty how Charles I. came by his death, and that I should not receive the correct reply.
ND yet.
Though in reading the Bible proper I am always conscious of great litera- ture, I am not quite sure that in read-
I HAVE only one quarreling this compilation of great litera-
with Kir.
Binyon.
There, may be some still to whom it savours of a kind of derogation to treat of the Sacred Scriptures as "literature." It is the inward mess- age, they will say, which matters,
not the outward form,
can
A
ture I am reading the Bible.
Perhaps it is a matter of use. man may pray da an open field, and perhaps nowhen: better.
But, rightly or wrongly, I feel that a place where thousands of people have prayed before me-In other words, a church-best disposes to prayer.
And
appreciate all that this new edition of the Bible sets out to do. But it la ns great an error to imp-hope it will do it. I belleve that it gine that the substance
be will bring many new readers. abstracted from the form as that the r
rejoice. form can be abstracted from the sub-
But for myself I shall wontinue to stance. Thess
Bre one and I read the Bible. In the form in which divisible,
millions have read it before me. Can it be supposed that the words 1iched at 10s. 6d., and has 1,238 pages. "The Bible as Literature" is pub- which have carried hope and awe,It is edited and arranged by Ernest fortitude and consolation, into the Sutherland Bules, and has an intro- minds of English people for so many duction by Laurence Binyon. generatons would have had anything like the samé virtue and powers if they had not been shaped into a noble and unforgettable form?
It
I quarrel with this, is ቅዱ though Mr. Binyon should tell me ta believe the doctrines of a particular religion because of the colour of the robes worn by lis ministers of the music played in its cathedrals.
One knows how translations im-
remember a
French poverish. I Ophelia who, instead of the words, "Where is the beauteous majesty of to the stage. Desmark?' come vi nudged a courth.r, and said, Reine de Denmark, hein?"
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4 A good thing to start dinner
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9 Point about a well-broken nag.
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10 There's poetry in this refreshing
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1-1 Equal, but has to go up finally
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10 A very select circle (4).
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13 A disordered lament (8). 14 Foolish (6).
16 The Spaniard who ripped up the already broken road (8).
16 An aromatic herb (0).
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25 A now idea. (7).
27 A clerle from 37 ncross (6).
30 Something not reckoned on (5). 31 Hardly appropriate (5)
32 A kind of poem (5).
34 A French beast appears to be-
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4-Tree like writer-(6)i-"
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