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included in the space of two or three. Who is

sufficient for these things ? As for the industry of the editor, it is beyond all com- prehension. He is, if we mistake not, joint conductor of one, if not two other huge works ; and he is solely responsible for this vast undertaking of bringing together "anecdotes, similes, em- blems, illustrations, expository, scientific, geographical, historical, and homilectic, collected from a wide range of home and foreign literature, on the verses of the Bible."