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Excerpt from Jewish Affirmations; III. The Holy Bible: A Sunday Lecture Before the Congregation Rodeph Shalom, Pittsburgh, Pa;, February 18th, 1903
It may be well to remember these facts in considering the case of the Bible and the people who gave it to the world. If it be true that Shakespeare has been the source of inspiration to thousands of volumes, it is equally true that the Bible has inspired tens of thou sands. I believe that I am thoroughly conservative when I say that hundreds of thousands of books are either inspired by it, directly or in directly, or are, in someway or other, indebted to it for some one theme or more. A vast number of commentaries, dictionaries, gram mars, encyclopedias, treatises, lectures, sermons, criticisms, essays of every kind, have appeared from time to time, the Bible being their in spiration. The Work itself has passed through edition after edition, until, as you have before heard, in the last century, conservatively, estimated, five hundred million copies of it were circulated through out the world. Such has been mankind's spontaneous recognition of the value of this product of the genius of the descendants of Abraham. Were the Bible a nothing, and were the claims made by the people of the Bible also nothing, both would have escaped detection. I take it that the controversies, the commentaries, the attacks on, as well as the friendship shown to the Scriptures and the people who wrote them, are the world's tribute to the high value placed upon the Book itself and upon the people of the Book. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
