It is fascinating in itself; it throws light on every portion of the Bible; it clears up obscurities, explaining what is else inexplicable; it distinguishes the minor detours from the major highways of Biblical thought; it gives their true value to primitive concepts, the early, blazed trails leading out to
great issues; and, in the end, it makes of the Bible a
coherent whole, understood, as everything has to be understood, in terms of its origins and growth.