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Excerpt from Encyclopædia Biblica, Vol. 1: A Critical Dictionary of the Literary, Political and Religious History, the Archaeology, Geography and Natural History of the Bible; A to D
In September, 1892, however, it became only too clear to Prof. Smith that he was suffering from a malady which might terminate fatally after no very dis tant term. The last hope of active participation in his long-cherished scheme of a Bible Dictionary had well-nigh disappeared, when one of the present editors, who had no definite knowledge of Prof. Smith's plan, communicated to this friend of many years' standing his ideas of what a critical Bible Dictionary ought to be, and inquired whether he thought that such a project could be realised. Prof. Smith was still intellectually able to consider and pronounce upon these ideas, and gladly recognised their close a?inity to his own. Unwilling that all the labour already bestowed by him on planning and drafting articles should be lost, he requested Prof. Cheyne to take up the work which he himself was compelled to drop, in conjunction with the older and more intimate friend already mentioned. Hence the combination of names on the title - page. The work is undertaken by the editors as a charge from one whose parting message had the force Of a command.
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