Themselves uncultivated in the time that the Bible was first made known to them, they found in it almost everything that they thought and felt, expressed in a much better way than they could have expressed it.

Accordingly the Northern races of Europe found their inspiration in the Bible; and the enthusiasm for it has not yet quite faded away.
But the value of the original, be it observed, did not make the value of the English Bible.

Certainly it was an inspiring force; but it was nothing more.

The English Bible is perhaps a much greater piece of fine literature, altogether considered, than the Hebrew Bible.

It was so for a particular reason which it is very necessary for the student to understand.