THE EXPOSITOR'S DICTIONARY

OF

POETICAL QUOTATIONS

EXPOSITOR'S DICTIONARY

OF

POETICAL QUOTATIONS

BY

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JAMES MOFFATT, D.D., D.Litt.

Yates Professor of New Testament Greek and Exegesis, Mansfield College, Oxford

HODDER AND STOUGHTON

ST. PAUL'S HOUSE

WARWICK SQUARE, LONDON, E.C. MCMXIII

THE Contents of this volume are of two kinds. Some are more or less direct quotations from the Bible, others illustrate suggestively and aptly the thought of the verse which is prefixed. I hope that both classes of quotations will help to enrich the significance and interest of the Bible for those who read it.

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"A verse,
as George Herbert put it, 'may finde him who a sermon flies,'
and many fly from sermons in these latter days. Even those who do not,
whether they have to make them or to listen to them, may perhaps be "found"
by some of the verses printed in these pages.

I have omitted the longer and familiar poems on subjects like Rizpah, Samson, and Pilate's wife. Even so, considerations of space have prevented me from treating some books of the Bible with the same fulness as others. Besides, if one had attempted to do this, the result would have been not a single volume but several.

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