Getting the Juice from Scripture

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Oct 30, 1884

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 10, No. 41.

Getting the Juice from Scripture

RUSKIN says: "Some people read their Bibles just as the old monks thought the hedgehogs ate grapes. They rolled themselves—it was said—over and over where the grapes lay on the ground; what stuck to their spines they carried off and ate. So your hedgehoggy readers roll themselves over and over their Bibles, and declare that whatever sticks to their spine is Scripture, and that nothing else is. But you can only get the skins of the texts in that way; if you want their juice you must press them in cluster."