The Bible’s Peculiar Position
In relation to other books, the Bible occupies a peculiar and solitary position. It is independent of all others; it imitates no other book; it copies none; it hardly alludes to any other, whether in praise or blame; and this is nearly as true of its later portions, when books were common, as in its earlier, when books were scarce. . . . Other books may be forgotten in a universe where suns go down and disappear like bubbles in the stream; the memory of this Book shall shine as the brightness of that eternal firmament, and as those higher stars, which are forever and ever.—“The Bards of the Bible,” by George Gilfillan.