“Throw away the Old Testament! What part of it will you throw away? That which I do not understand? Take down then yonder blood-stained cross; for there is a love there "which passeth knowledge," and a Divine hatred of sin which shook the solid earth.”

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 32.

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