EDITED BY E. HERSHEY SNEATH, PH.D., LL.D.

A BOOK ABOUT THE ENGLISH BIBLE

ENGLISH BIBLE

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BY

JOSIAH H. PENNIMAN, PH.D., LL.D.

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VICE-PROVOST AND PROFESSOR OF English literATURE IN THE
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA

New York

THE MACMILLAN COMPANY

1919

All rights reserved

The Bible text used in this volume, except where otherwise marked, is
taken from the American Standard Edition of the Revised Bible, (in several
passages referred to as the American Revised Version) copyright 1901 by
Thomas Nelson & Sons, and is used by permission.