Quotation from withdrawn religious publication? (7)
I believe the answer is:
extract
'quotation' is the definition.
(an extract is quotation or selection from a text)
'from withdrawn religious publication?' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite see how this works, but
'from' could be 'ex' ('from' in Latin) and 'ex' is located in the answer.
'publication?' could be 'tract' (I've seen this before) and 'tract' is located in the answer.
No letters remain.
This may be the basis of the clue (or it may be nonsense).
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for extract that I've seen before include "Separate, in a mining sense" , "Remove - piece" , "Short piece" , "Part" , "Passage taken from book etc" .)