The Wise Men of Ancient Israel: Their Proverbs (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Kent, Charles Foster

9781330753002: The Wise Men of Ancient Israel: Their Proverbs (Classic Reprint)

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ISBN 10: 1330753003 ISBN 13: 9781330753002

Verlag: Forgotten Books, 2018

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Excerpt from The Wise Men of Ancient Israel: Their Proverbs

In view of these facts, I have become convinced that if this volume of the old library is to fulfil its mission to the present age, order must be evolved out of chaos. It is evident that here the principles of systematic, scientific classification are the only and sufficient guides.

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Excerpt from The Wise Men of Ancient Israel: Their Proverbs

Of the books of the Old Testament perhaps none is less read or studied than the book of Proverbs. Ministers sometimes search through it for a text, and the International Sunday School Committee has been wont, every seven years, to select a chapter or two from it for study. Old people ordinarily find great pleasure in reading it, since its epigrammatic verses so truly and pointedly express their own life experiences. But to the great majority of Bible students, and especially to the young, for whom it has the most valuable message, it is a terra incognita.

The reason for this general neglect is patent. The book of Proverbs is the supreme example of the sententious type of literature so dear to the Semitic mind. Like many another product of the East, it is also in its external form signally deficient in scientific arrangement, and consequently in logical connection. To the Oriental this seems most natural, but to the Occidental it is simply confusing. No sooner has the latter grasped the meaning of one maxim than he is plunged into an entirely different realm of thought. Having made the conquest of the truth contained in the second proverb, he is obliged to repeat the same experience in each succeeding verse. The result is most discouraging. All that was gained from the earlier verses is lost, because association of ideas is impossible.

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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.

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