NOT IN THE BIBLE.
‘•There are a number of sentences not in the Bible which everybody thinks aie there/ - ’ said a clergyman. “The chief one of these sentences is: ‘lie tempers the wind to ihe shorn lamb/ Vou would search the Bible pretty thoroughly before you would find that sentence in it. Where you would find it would be in Sterne’s ‘Sentimental Journey/ “Sterne gets a good deal of praise for the originality of this sentence, but it was originated, as a matter oP fact, before he was born. In a collection of French proverbs, published in 1594, we find ‘Dieu mesure le vent a la brebis tondue/ That convicts Sterne of plagiarism. “‘ln the midst of life we are in death’ —everybody thinks that is in the Bible. It isn’t, though; it is in the ‘Burial Service/ ”
“‘That he who runs may read.’ This is another sentence supposed, wrongly, to be biblical. It is not biblical, though the Bible has something very like it. namely, ‘That he may run that readeth/ ” “ ‘Ppone to sin as the sparks fly upwards/ The Bible nowhere contains those words/’ “A. nation shall be born in a day/ The nearest thing to (.hat in the good book is, ‘Shall a nation be born at once ?’ ”
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New Zealand Mail, Issue 1651, 21 October 1903, Page 27
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