The poor man’s Bible

“The poor man’s Bible is the word of God, in which he has no suspicion that there is anything but perfection. The Bible of the profoundly erudite scholar is often a book that is not so necessary to instruct him, as one that needs his hand for alteration, or amendment, or confirmation. Learning may be usefully employed; but if learning ever forgets that it must sit at the feet of Jesus, it will be a curse instead of a blessing. It will raise clouds and darkness, instead of communicating light to the world.”

Robert Haldane, Exposition of the Epistle to the Romans (Volume I, New Edition Much Enlarged, Edinburgh: William Whyte & Co., 1842), pp. 11-12