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“My desire,” says F. W. Farrar in the preface, is “to point out the general form, the peculiar characteristics, the special message of the Sacred Books one by one, because I had found by experience, both as a teacher and as a clergyman, that this method of studying each part of Scripture as a complete whole was much less common than could be desired.” In The Messages of the Books, Farrar sets out...

Let us pause for a moment to notice the perfectness of the “evangelic preparation” by which God marked “the fulness of the times.” The Gospel could never have spread with a rapidity so amazing but for the concurrence of three vast and world-wide events, whereby God had so ordered the world of history as to prepare the way for the revelation of His Son. Those three events were the career of Alexander the Great, the rise of the Roman empire, and the dispersion of the Jews. The conquests of Alexander
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