Hosea 8:12 I have written to him the great things of my law, but they were counted as a strange thing. Young man, if some one laughs at you, because you read the Bible, laugh him to scorn. Let him laugh at you because you read Plato, or Homer, or Dante, or Shakespeare, or Browning; but laugh at him if he laugh at you because you read the Bible. More than we have gained from all other literatures we have gained from this. More of our law from Moses than from Justinian; more of our poetry from David than from Homer; more of our inspiration from Isaiah than from Dante, Demosthenes, or Cicero; more of our philosophy from Paul than from Plato; more of our life from this one Book than from all other books combined. And yet it is not the book; it is the message in the book that has to give the life. (Lyman Abbott.) Parallel Verses KJV: I have written to him the great things of my law, but they were counted as a strange thing.WEB: I wrote for him the many things of my law; but they were regarded as a strange thing. |
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