Quote#Beauty
The Apocrypha... ought to be bound up with all your Bibles; it…
Quote byJohn Tyndall · 1820–1893
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: New Fragments (1892).
English (original)
The Apocrypha... ought to be bound up with all your Bibles; it contains much that is beautiful and wise, and there is in history nothing finer than the description of Eleazar's end.
— John Tyndall
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