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He thought that commentators, and historians, not alone Christian, but also Hebrew and Pagan, should be studied to illustrate it, and then the commentaries of the Latin fathers, so that a thoroughly rounded knowledge of it should be obtained. He thus began an "Encyclopedia Biblica," and set a host of workers at its accomplishment.
KING. "'Did you study BIBLICA diligently? KING. "'That is he who had such quarrelling with Wolf? LINSENBARTH. "'Yea, your Majesty! He was Danz; Homiletics with Dr. Hoom-m-m! Harness not to be had on those terms. "'Were things as wild then at Jena, in your time, as of old, when the Students were forever scuffling and ruffling, and the Couplet went:
Tiele's Egyptische en Mesopotamische Godsdiensten. The Histories of Israel, especially Kuenen, The Religion of Israel. F. Jeremias, in De la Saussaye, vol. i. pp. 348-383. E. Meyer, "Phenicia," in Encyclopædia Biblica. It is a circumstance of the greatest value for the science of religion that the Old Testament is so well known.
There is a valuable article on ancient trade in Encyclopaedia Biblica, IV., 48, etc. H. H. Helmolt, General History, VII., pt. i., pp. 1- 139, has a long and valuable chapter on "The Economic Development of Western Europe Since the Time of the Crusades," by Dr. Richard Mayr.
Deuteronomy, the earliest law-book, is simply tacked on to it as if it were a part of the same code, though in reality it is often inconsistent with the latter law. This was thenceforward the law of the Jews. See "Ezra" in Encyclopædia Biblica.
"How strangely times alter," said I, the second day subsequent to the opening of my establishment, as I stood on the opposite side of the street, leaning against the wall with folded arms, surveying my shop, on the windows of which were painted in large yellow characters, Despacho de la Sociedad Biblica y Estrangera; "how strangely times alter; here have I been during the last eight months running about old Popish Spain, distributing Testaments, as agent of what the Papists call an heretical society, and have neither been stoned nor burnt; and here am I now in the capital, doing that which one would think were enough to cause all the dead inquisitors and officials buried within the circuit of the walls to rise from their graves and cry abomination; and yet no one interferes with me.
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