In a circular email received today, a friend – and fellow book-lover – quoted these lines from a sermon by C.H. Spurgeon on 2 Timothy 4:13 (‘When you come, bring the cloak that I left with Carpus at Troas, also the books...’):
‘He was inspired, and yet he wants books!
He had been preaching for thirty years, and yet he wants books!
He had seen the Lord, and yet he wants books!
He had a wider experience than most men do, and yet he wants books!
He had been caught up into the third heaven, and had heard things that it was not lawful for a man to utter, and yet he wants books!
He had written a major part of the New Testament, and yet he wants books!’
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