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Words Said and Indited When a Perusal of a Scriptural Tome Loses Its Momentum

The poetical books are nearly, by me, complete; Next follows those once-furled, parchmentlike Scribal tablets on which were calligraphically Indited the books classified as Naught but "prophetical"- After the major and minor scribes, The authors of which, and those of the first grouping of the Newer set of scriptural books: Those of the evangelical order; The momentum engendered by the narrative flow: The alacritous, celeritous, positively propulsive flow: Of the Bible then stalls out, Mired in and run aground Amid the impenetrably deep Bedrock of the various epistolary, predominantly Pauline books (Paul, being Mosaic in his inditing of just as many and more books than Those writ by Moses' own hand, for one has the tally of a mere five or six to his Luminous credit, whereas the other has something on the order of ten, at least, to his). Not that those, the Pauline books, are of a very poor quality, But to segue from the narrative and story, poetry, law, Prophecy and history and the narrative flow thereof: To turn from these to abstruse missives Of a yet abstruser philosophical Bent, then one finds that one yearns anew for the levitical, mosaical books, When their perusal of books biblical desists before the gates of the Sadly boring New Testament-save naturally for the gospels, Which are themselves poetic and narrative and fast-moving. Such, at least, is my appraisal of the matter.

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