i An Epigram ("Rob not the poor")... ii An Epigram (“Make no friendship”). iii An Epigram (“Be thou not one of them "). iv, v Unit Proverbs...... vi Epigram: Awe before Appetite.. vii Epigram: Transitoriness of Riches 105 viii Epigram: Hospitality of the Evil Eye.. 109 109 x An Epigram (" Remove not"). xi Unit Proverb xii An Epigram (“ Withhold not correction"). xv Epigram: Gluttony.. III xvi, xvii Unit Proverbs III xviii An Epigram (“The father of the righteous"). III xix Epigram: The Pit of Whoredom 112 xx Riddle Sonnet: Wine and Woe... 112 113 xxi An Epigram ("Be not thou envious"). 114 114 Page xxiv-vii Unit Proverbs xxviii Epigram: The Duty of Rescue xxxii An Epigram ("Fret not thyself") xxxiii An Epigram ("My son, fear thou"). xxxiv Epigram: Respect of Persons.. 114 115 115 116 116 116 117 119 121 121 xxxvii An Epigram ("Be not a witness") 121 122 Title page i Proverb Cluster: The King.. ii Unit Proverb iii An Epigram ("Debate thy cause")... BOOK IV Hezekiah's Collection 123 xiv An Epigram ("If thine enemy"). xxiii Proverb Cluster: Fools.. xxiv Proverb Cluster: The Sluggard.. xxvi-xxxvi Unit Proverbs.... xxxvii An Epigram ("Thine own friend"). Unit Proverbs... xlii An Epigram ("A continual dropping"). i Sonnet: The Unsearchableness of God ii An Epigram (“Every word of God") iii iv V Sonnet: An Evil Generation vi Number Sonnet: Things never satisfied x Number Sonnet: Things not to be borne. 153 xi Number Sonnet: Little and Wise 154 xii. Number Sonnet: Things Stately in their Going. 154 155 xiv. The Oracle of Lemuel's Mother 156 XV Acrostic: The Virtuous Woman 157 194 Small 18mo. Cloth extra, 50 cents each; Leather, 60 cents. The Modern Reader's Bible. A Series of Books from the Sacred Scriptures, BY RICHARD G. MOULTON, M.A. (Camb.), Ph.D. (Penn.), Professor of Literature in English in the University of Chicago. PRESS COMMENTS. "The effect of these changes back to the original forms under which the sacred writings first appeared will be, for the vast ma The Outlook, jority of readers, a surprise and delight; they will feel as if they had come upon new spiritual and intellectual treasures, and they will appreciate for the first time how much the Bible has suffered from the hands of those who have treated it without reference to its literary quality. In view of the significance and possible results of Professor Moulton's undertaking, it is not too much to pronounce it one of the most important spiritual and literary events of the times. It is part of the renaissance of Biblical study; but it may mean, and in our judgment it does mean, the renewal of a fresh and deep impression of the beauty and power of the supreme spiritual writing of the world." 'Unquestionably here is a task worth_carrying out: and it is to be said at once that Dr. Moulton has carried it out with great skill and helpfulness. Both the introduction and the notes are distinct contributions to the better understanding and higher appreciation of the literary character, feature! Presbyterian and Reformed Review. and beauties of the Biblical books treated." THE MACMILLAN COMPANY 66 FIFTH Avenue, NEW YORK THE PROVERBS IN FOUR VOLUMES A Miscellany of Sayings and Poems embodying Isolated Observations of Life. ECCLESIASTICUS A Miscellany including longer compositions, still embodying only Isolated Observations of Life. ECCLESIASTES-WISDOM OF SOLOMON Each is a Series of Connected Writings embodying, from different standpoints, a Solution of the Whole Mystery of Life. THE BOOK OF JOB A Dramatic Poem in which are embodied Varying Solutions of the Mystery of Life. DEUTERONOMY The Orations and Songs of Moses, constituting his Farewell to the People of Israel. BIBLICAL IDYLS The Lyric Idyl of Solomon's Song, and the Epic Idyls of Ruth, THE PSALMS (Two Volumes) Containing the whole of The Psalms and also the Book of SELECT MASTERPIECES OF BIBLICAL LITERATURE |