Wallington Aug. 11. 1851.
_Erroneous Scripture Quotations._--Some of your correspondents have done
good service by drawing attention to these things. Has it ever occurred
to you that the _apple_ is a fruit never connected in Scripture with the
fall of man;--that Eve was not Adam's helpmate, but merely a help _meet_
for him;--and that Absalom's long hair, of which he was so proud, and
which as consequently so often served "to point a moral and adorn a
tale," had nothing to do with his death, his head itself, and not the
hair upon it, having been caught in the boughs of the tree?