“Prone to sin as the sparks fly upward.” “Born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward.”—Job v. 7.
“Exalted to heaven in point of privilege.” Not in the Bible.
Eve was not Adam’s helpmate, but merely a help meet for him; nor was Absalom’s long hair, of which he was so proud, the instrument of his destruction;[[8]] his head, and not the hair upon it, having been caught in the boughs of the tree. (2 Samuel xviii. 9.)
“Money is the root of evil.” Paul said, I. Timothy, vi. 10, “The love of money is the root of all evil.”
“In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread,” Gen. iii. 19. Commonly quoted “brow.”
“Cleanliness akin to godliness.” Not in the Bible.
Our Lord’s hearing the doctors in the Temple, and asking them questions, is frequently called his disputing with the doctors.
A SCRIPTURAL BULL.
In the book of Isaiah, chapter xxxvii. verse 36, is the following confusion of ideas:—
Then the angel of the Lord went forth, and smote in the camp of the Assyrians a hundred and fourscore and five thousand: and when they arose early in the morning, behold, they were all dead corpses.