Figures of Speech Used in The Bible, Explained And Illustrated (1898)
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- Figures of Speech Used in The Bible, Explained And Illustrated (1898)
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Figures of Speech Used in The Bible, Explained And Illustrated (1898)
Year: 1898
“In this huge volume Dr. Bullinger offers us a grouping and an explanation of all the figures of speech that are used in the Bible. Few things are more necessary; in the study of the Bible there is perhaps nothing that is more necessary. We do not understand figures of speech, while the Oriental lives and moves and has his being in them. We read with a literality that makes a Hebrew shudder. We go astray greatly as we read. But it demands great gifts on the part of an Englishman to explain the figures of speech in the Bible. It demands much more than Hebrew and Greek scholarship, which Dr. Bullinger has. It demands more than a feeling for Oriental ways of thinking, which also he has acquired by much study. …The book will be to many careless readers a great surprise. It will be nothing short of a revelation to many. A Review from the Literary Table, Books of the Month, The Expository Times, Vol. 11, 1899, p223 Figures of Speech Used in The Bible, Explained and Illustrated (1898), Ethelbert W. Bullinger, D.D. “How is it that ye do not understand? …Then understood they.” Mat. 6:11, 12 “It may be asked, “How are we to know, then, when words are to be taken in their simple, original for