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Books and Bodies
"It makes your hair stand on end when you reflect on how much time and effort has been expended on the elucidation of the Bible... And what, after centuries or millennia, will in the end have been gained through these exertions? Certainly nothing more than the knowledge that, like all books, the Bible is a book written by men. By men who, because they lived in somewhat different times, were somewhat different from us; who were somewhat simpler than we are, but on the other hand also very much more ignorant; that the Bible is thus a book containing much that is true and much that is false, much that is good and much that is bad. The more an elucidation of the Bible shows it to be a quite ordinary book, the better that elucidation is..."
from Georg Christoph Lichtenberg's "The Waste Books", published in 2000 by The New York Review of Books (p.127; Book J, 1789-1793).
Merry Christmas to One and All!
Books and Bodies
"It makes your hair stand on end when you reflect on how much time and effort has been expended on the elucidation of the Bible... And what, after centuries or millennia, will in the end have been gained through these exertions? Certainly nothing more than the knowledge that, like all books, the Bible is a book written by men. By men who, because they lived in somewhat different times, were somewhat different from us; who were somewhat simpler than we are, but on the other hand also very much more ignorant; that the Bible is thus a book containing much that is true and much that is false, much that is good and much that is bad. The more an elucidation of the Bible shows it to be a quite ordinary book, the better that elucidation is..."
from Georg Christoph Lichtenberg's "The Waste Books", published in 2000 by The New York Review of Books (p.127; Book J, 1789-1793).
Merry Christmas to One and All!