Nor could I gather that he had read any other book than the Bible.

Even that he appeared to have read villainously, for he seemed ignorant of much of its contents, and he told us many things that are not in it.

He placed a _pen_ in the fingers of the man's hand which disturbed Belshazzar's feast, and gave us many similar additions to holy writ.

Yet he was singularly devoid of imagination.

He took everything in the Bible literally, even the story of the descent of the Holy Ghost upon the apostles in the shape of cloven tongues of fire.