Brewer's: Runs may Read

(He that). The Bible quotation in Habakkuk ii. 2 is, “Write the vision, and make it plain, that he may run that readeth it.” Cowper says -

But truths, on which depends our main concern... Shine by the side of every path we tread With such a lustre, he that runs may read.

Tirocinium.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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