A FAMOUS CONCORDANCE
The case of Alexander Cruden, whose ‘ Concordance ’ to the Bible was published just 200 years ago, was a very curious one He brought to the task a great gift of perseverance, but his piety was chequered by an. eccentricity which occasionally led to his being _ put under restraint. It was hi* habit to go about with a sponge “ with which he effaced all inscription* thought contrary to public morals.” As he included Wilkes’s “ No. 45 ” (of the ‘ North Briton ’) in that category, he obliterated that number wherever he found it, classing it apparently, with the 666 of the ‘Revelations.’ As a censor-general he took the title of “ Alexander the Corrector,” and be so assimilated practice to precept that only two omissions were to be found in the ‘ Concordance,’ one of these being the name of Huz, the brother of Buz (Gen. xxii., 21). From a tralv serious reader of the Scriptures it almost invited the sponge.— * Observer,’
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Evening Star, Issue 22817, 27 November 1937, Page 3
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160A FAMOUS CONCORDANCE Evening Star, Issue 22817, 27 November 1937, Page 3
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