He stood up to read...
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"He stood up to read the Scriptures and was handed the book of the prophet Isaiah (Luke 4:17, TEV)." A teacher asked a college student to write a one-page paper. The teacher assigned this topic: "What books have most influenced your life?" The student wrote: "The two books that have most influenced my life are my mother's cookbook and my father's checkbook."
Celtic priests in the old days of Great Britain created books. They used the inside of the bark from a beech tree to write down their ideas. They called the beech tree by the word "boc." They began to use the word "boc" for any early writing material. They began to bind these sheets together and used the word "boc" for the collection. They gave us our word "book."
"They do not die who leave their thought
Imprinted on some deathless page.
Themselves may pass; the spell they wrought
Endures on earth from age to age." (Thomas Carlyle)
--Chinn
Celtic priests in the old days of Great Britain created books. They used the inside of the bark from a beech tree to write down their ideas. They called the beech tree by the word "boc." They began to use the word "boc" for any early writing material. They began to bind these sheets together and used the word "boc" for the collection. They gave us our word "book."
"They do not die who leave their thought
Imprinted on some deathless page.
Themselves may pass; the spell they wrought
Endures on earth from age to age." (Thomas Carlyle)
--Chinn
