Excerpt from Light on the Gospel: From an Ancient Poet More important still is a third question Has this pseudonymous poet anything of his own' to say Is he reallya poet, or only a quoter of poetry Justin Martyr; for example, rquotespoetry by the yard, but is no poet; Clement of Rome and Ignatius quotecomparatively little, but have something of the. Passion of, poetry; Barnabas'quotes almostas abundantly as inaccurately, and has some original fancies and conceits, but no poetry. Is this poet like any of these, or altogether. Unlike? Even if 'he does not quote, he must {mpg}. T-few poets Spin poetry entirely out'of their own consciousness, without a particle of indebtedness to some predecessors, What does this poet imply? The Old Testament, or: the N ew? If the Old, then what books most of all? If the N ew, what gospels? Or what epistles, if any? If neither Old nor N ew, then what writers, Greek, or Jewish, or both P. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.