Most ancient books have been long forgotten but the Bible has proven itself a very memorable and unique book not only because it has been the most widely translated, distributed, and sold book of all time but because it accomplished all this despite unending attempts to destroy it.
19th-century theologian Albert Barnes reminds of these attempts to suppress and destroy it, saying, "No other books has received so much opposition as this, but it has survived every attack which power, talent, and eloquence have ever made on it.
Speaking of the many attacks on it he continues, "But no army every survived so many battles as the Bible....and still stood unmoved."
It has truly proved itself to be a unique book that can not be destroyed although many have tried even as it words were being written, such as the Israelite king, Jehoiakim who was provoked by Jeremiah's warning that Jerusalem would be destroyed because of the evilness the Jewish people at the time.
These attempts to destroy the Bible have continued by such people through the centuries but with no success.
(See Jeremiah 36: 1-23 for more information).
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