Excerpt from Men Who Dared: Studies in Old Testament ManhoodIt is hard for us to think of the leading men of Old Testament times as ¿esh and blood folks who were very much like ourselves. They were heroes, and heroes are different from ordinary people. But we Shall never get the real message Of these men's lives. Until we learn to know them in their likeness to ourselves. Strip them of the unreality that they have to most of us, and we find that their heroism consisted in doing commonplace things in a way out Of the ordinary, but a way open to all of us if we will pay the price that they paid.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.