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Walter John de la Mare
Stories from the Bible
Published by Good Press, 2021
EAN 4066338065353
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INTRODUCTION
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The stories contained in this volume are versions of but a few of the narratives related in the first nine books of the Old Testament of the Bible, 'that inestimable treasure which excelleth all the riches of the earth'.
The Bible, it is said, is not being read nowadays so much as it used to be: while there was a time when, it is recorded, a load of hay would be paid gladly for the loan of a manuscript Testament for an hour a day. Wholly apart from the profound truth that 'simple men of wit may be edified much to heavenly living by reading and knowing of the Old Testament', this statement, if true, implies a loss beyond measure to mind and heart, and particularly to the young—its wisdom and divination, truth and candour, simplicity and directness. All that man is or feels or (in what concerns him closely) thinks; all that he loves or fears or delights in, grieves for, desires and aspires to is to be found in it, either expressed or implied. As for beauty, though this was not its aim, and the word is not often used in it—it is 'excellent in beauty'; and poetry dwells in it as light dwells upon a mountain and on the moss in the crevices of its rocks. In what other book—by mere mention of them—are even natural objects made in the imagination so whole and fair; its stars, its wellsprings, its war-horse, its almond-tree?