p. 75 | MISQUOTATIONS FROM SCRIPTURE

Publishing Committee · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jul 24, 1860

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 16, No. 10.

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MISQUOTATIONS FROM SCRIPTURE.

“GOD tempers the wind to the shorn lamb.” From Sterne’s Sentimental Journey to Italy. Compare Isaiah xxvii, 8.

“In the midst of life we are in death.” From the Burial Service; and this originally from a hymn of Luther.

“Bread and wine which the Lord hath commanded to be received.” From the English Catechism.

“Not to be wise above what is written.” Not in Scripture.

“That the Spirit would go from heart to heart as oil from vessel to vessel.” Not in Scripture.

“The merciful man is merciful to his beast.” The Scripture form is, “A righteous man regardeth the life of his beast.” Prov. xii, 10.

“A nation shall be born in a day.” In Isaiah it reads, “Shall a nation be born at once?” Isa. lxvi, 8.

“As iron sharpeneth iron, so doth a man the countenance of his friend.” “Iron sharpeneth iron; so a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend.” Prov. xxvii, 17.

“That he who runs may read.” “That he may run that readeth.” Hab. ii, 2.

“Owe no man anything, but love.” “Owe no man anything, but to love one another.” Rom. xiii, 8.

“Prone to sin as the sparks fly upward.” “Born to trouble as the sparks fly upward.” Job v, 7.

“Exalted to heaven in point of privilege.” Not in the Bible.

Eve was not Adam’s helpmate, but merely a help meet for him; nor was Absalom’s long hair, of which he was so proud, the instrument of his destruction; his head, and not the hair upon it, having been caught in the boughs of the tree. 2 Samuel xviii, 9.