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This book is the result of half a century of Bible study, and was published to commemorate the 50th anniversary of A. T. Pierson’s entrance upon the ministry. It presents some 50 rules and methods of study which he has tried and found helpful, illustrated by examples to make the principles easy to follow. This volume will be found instructive in all three departments: homiletics, hermeneutics,...

No student of Holy Scripture should forget that, to see the highest truth man needs the verifying faculty. “The light of the body is the eye,” because the condition on which depend the perception and reception of all light is a healthy organ of vision, without which there is in effect no light. This is a thought of profound outreach. Objective testimony, or external evidence of truth, is never enough; there must be also subjective capacity, internal receptivity to its witness. We must not be so absorbed
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