Companion to the Bible

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Title: Companion to the Bible

Author: E. P. Barrows

Release Date: December 9, 2005 [EBook #17265]

Language: English

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COMPANION

THE BIBLE.

BY REV. E.P. BARROWS, D.D.,

PROFESSOR OF BIBLICAL LITERATURE.

GENERAL PREFACE.

The design of the present work, as its title indicates, is to assist in the study of God's word. The author has had special reference to teachers of Bible classes and Sabbath-schools; ministers of the gospel who wish to have ready at hand the results of biblical investigation in a convenient and condensed form; and, in general, the large body of intelligent laymen and women in our land who desire to pursue the study of Scripture in a thorough and systematic way.

The First Part contains a concise view of the Evidences of Revealed Religion. Here, since Christianity rests on a basis of historic facts, special prominence has been given to the historic side of these evidences; those, nam

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