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Tuesday January 5th, 2010

Anti-Blurb 7

Lord Shaftesbury on Sir John Seeley’s Ecce Homo (1865), which examined the evidence for the truth of the Gospels:

. . . the most pestilential book ever vomited, I think, from the jaws of hell.

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    Wednesday January 6, 2010 at 7:13 am

    [...] Book blurb of the week: “…the most pestilential book ever vomited, I think, from the jaws of hell.” [...]

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