Northrop Frye Quotes

So long as the New Testament served to decipher the Old, it was taken as an absolute norm.

The early Church had nothing but the Old Testament. The New Testament lies hidden in the Old; the Old Testament lies open in the New.

The Bible is a history book.

I've read the Bible before, a couple of times cover to cover.

The Bible is not interested in precisionism unless the context indicates that precision is particularly important.

The New Testament is a commentary on the Old Testament, in the light of the new revelation given by Christ and the Holy Spirit.

My book centers in on the New Testament, the goal being to help a person who wants to understand the Bible to see how what God did as revealed in the New Testament will reveal to them their own personal story.

Someone recommended that I read the Bible, and it was then I discovered that I knew nothing about it.

The Bible is the great family chronicle of the Jews.

The style of the Bible in general is singularly adapted to men of every class and grade of culture, affording the child the simple nourishment for its religious wants, and the profoundest thinker inexhaustible matter of study.

I take my Bible with me, sometimes two of them, when I travel.

I think there's some pretty amazing language in the Bible.

The New Testament is not a historical document.

The words contained in it were inspired by the Holy Spirit into the minds of faithful men, called Prophets and Seers in the Old Testament; and Evangelists and Apostles in the New.

Once we truly grasp the message of the 'New Testament', it is impossible to read the 'Old Testament' again without seeing Christ on every page, in every story, foreshadowed or anticipated in every event and narrative.

The Bible for me is holy writ. It's a very straightforward thing, although I am not a literalist.

The Bible, for all its riches, is not a document of social history.

Many of the characters who appear in the pages of the Fourth Gospel are literary creations of its author and were never intended to be understood as real people, who actually lived in history.

There's no better book with which to defend the Bible than the Bible itself.

It is of immense importance for the understanding of the word of God, to read it in course, so that we may read every day a portion of the Old and a portion of the New Testament, going on where we previously left off.

The Scriptures of the Old and New Testament, said an eminent scholar, have God for their Author, the Salvation of mankind for their end, and Truth without any mixture of error for their matter.

The Bible is not only laws, it's also stories. It begins, 'In the beginning God created Heaven.' If I had written these words, I wouldn't have written anything else; it's just enough.

The Bible is not a history book.

Scrutamini scripturas [Latin for “Let us look at the scriptures.”). These two words have undone the world.

The best description of the Old Testament that I heard was that it starts out as mythology, then it becomes legend, then it becomes history. In the mythological period - there is a distinct mythological period in the Old Testament, where the time spans are impossible and really just imagined.