Famous quotes containing the words ancient, hebrew and/or texts:
“You are our surety to immortal life,
God’s hatred of the universal stain—
The heritage, O Fear, of ancient strife
Compounded with the tissue of the vein.”
—Allen Tate (1899–1979)
“It is naught, it is naught, saith the buyer: but when he is gone his way, then he boasteth.”
—Bible: Hebrew Proverbs 20:14.
“The party of God and the party of Literature have more in common than either will admit; their texts may conflict, but their bigotries coincide. Both insist on being the sole custodians of the true word and its only interpreters.”
—Frederic Raphael (b. 1931)