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A New Commentary on Holy Scripture Including the Apocrypha was written by a variety of respected Anglican scholars and edited by Charles Gore, H. L. Goudge, and Alfred Guillaume. Created in the spirit of progressive criticism, this commentary posits conclusions that differ widely from the accepted views of the day. The scholars dedicated to this work believed that the Apocrypha was extremely...

By E. J. BICKNELL All over the world there emerges a philosophy of life that expresses itself in proverbs and riddles and fables. These embody popular reflection upon the meaning and problems of the world. They are devices for handing on the accumulated experience of the past in a form that can be easily remembered and understood. A proverb has been defined as ‘the wisdom of many and the wit of one.’ The definition includes the two necessary conditions. There