Doctor Robert Wilson, the great Hebrew scholar and linguist, was perfectly at home in over forty ancient Semitic languages. After forty-five years of study and research in these fields he wrote:
"For forty-five years continuously, since I left college, I have devoted myself to the one great study of the Old Testament in all its languages, in all its archeology, in all its translations, and in everything bearing upon its text and history...
"The result of my forty-five years of study of the Bible has led me all the time to a firmer faith that in the Old Testament we have a true historical account of the history of the Israelite people, and I have a right to commend it to some of those bright men and women who think that they can laugh at the old time Christian and believer in the Word of God...
"In my student days I used to read my New Testament in nine different languages. I learned my Hebrew by heart, so that I could recite it without intermission of a syllable...
"As soon as I graduated I became a teacher of Hebrew for a year and then I went to Germany. When I got to Heidelburg I made a decision― and I did it with prayer― to consecrate my life to the study of the Old Testament...
"The first fifteen years I devoted to the study of the languages necessary. The second fifteen I devoted myself to the study of the text of the Old Testament. And I reserved the last fifteen years for the writing of the results of my previous studies and investigations."
On one occasion when addressing a class in Princeton University, the renowned old scholar said with tears, "Young men, there are many mysteries in this life I do not pretend to understand, many things hard to explain. But I can tell you this morning with the fullest assurance that―
“Jesus loves me this I know
For the Bible tells me so."