The publication by the Trechsels in 1538 of the two Holbein books, the Dance of Death and illustrations to the Old Testament, must have given an impetus to picture-making at Lyon, but this was at first chiefly visible in illustrated Bibles and New testaments.
"Fine Books"
Alfred W. Pollard
In spite of the poor opinion of pigs in both the Old and New testaments, where, Herr Dremmel found on searching for a text, they were hardly mentioned except as convenient receptacles for devils, in his parishioners' lives they provided the nearest, indeed the only, approach to the finer emotions, to gratitude, love, wonder.
"The Pastor's Wife"
Elizabeth von Arnim
Unless Old and New testaments are accepted as God's revelation to man, Christianity has no higher claim than any other of the world's many religions, if no such claim can be made out for it apart from the Bible.
"Theological Essays"
Charles Bradlaugh