Category: Classics of Literature
That which we call 'The Bible' has the outward appearance of a book: in reality it is--what the word 'bible' implies in the original Greek--a whole library. More than fifty books, the production of a large number of different authors, representing periods of time extending ove...
That which we call 'The Bible' has the outward appearance of a book: in reality it is--what the word 'bible' implies in the original Greek--a whole library. More than fifty book...
2. Chapter 2And his brethren went to feed their father's flock in Shechem. And Israel said unto Joseph, Do not thy brethren feed the flock in Shechem? come, and I will send thee unto them....
3. Chapter 3And the men took that present, and they took double money in their hand, and Benjamin; and rose up, and went down to Egypt, and stood before Joseph. And when Joseph saw Benjamin...
4. Chapter 4Rise up, Balak, and hear; Hearken unto me, thou son of Zippor: God is not a man, that he should lie; Neither the son of man, that he should repent: Hath he said, and shall he no...
5. Chapter 5'Thus were the visions of my head upon my bed: I saw, and behold a tree in the midst of the earth, and the height thereof was great. The tree grew, and was strong, and the heigh...
6. Chapter 6For they said within themselves, reasoning not aright: "Short and sorrowful is our life; and there is no healing when a man cometh to his end, and none was ever known that gave...
7. Chapter 7Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened, and the ears of the deaf shall be unstopped. Then shall the lame man leap as an hart, and the tongue of the dumb shall sing: for in t...
8. Chapter 8A man's friend will not be fully tried in prosperity; and his enemy will not be hidden in adversity. In a man's prosperity his enemies are grieved; and in his adversity even his...
9. Chapter 9Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? ----Declare, if thou hast understanding---- Who determined the measures thereof, if thou knowest? Or who stretched the...
10. Chapter 10Terror is on every side, saith the LORD, Let not the swift flee away, nor the mighty man escape: In the north by the river Euphrates have they stumbled and fallen.
11. Chapter 11Though Moses and Samuel stood before me, yet my mind could not be toward this people: cast them out of my sight, and let them go forth. And it shall come to pass, when they say...
12. Chapter 12Thus saith the LORD: Shall men fall, and not rise up again? shall one turn away, and not return? Why then is this people of Jerusalem slidden back by a perpetual backsliding? th...
13. Chapter 13/ii. The Witness of Balaam./ The place of this story in the main history is indicated by its title: the 'Exodus' is the period of development for Israel from a family to a natio...
14. Chapter 14/vii. Wisdom and the Strange Woman./ This is at once the foremost of wisdom poems in its thought, and the most elaborate in sonnet structure: here, as always, the structure is a...
15. Chapter 15Job 15 I An Elegy of a Broken Heart Job III 3 Job 107 II The Creator's Joy in his Creation Job XXXVIII 4 The Exodus 43 III The Song of Moses and Miriam Exodus XV 1 The Judges 88...