SACRED PHILOLOGY. PART II. CHAP. V the lapse of two centuries, crept into our common Bibles, consider-tary, brief but solid refutations of alleged contradictions, which ne able pains have been taken, by the collation of different editions, could find in no other similar work extant in the English language to exhibit an accurate copy of the sacred text according to the The edition in imperial 8vo. was superintended by the Rev. Messrs authorized version.-2. Not only have the marginal references Josiah Pratt (sen. and jun.), upon the following plan the Practi throughout been revised with the utmost care, but it will be found cal Observations, as found in the stereotyped quario editions, are that the author has inserted, in the notes, and practical observa- divided according to the portions of the text to which they belong; tions, frequent references to other parts of his Commentary. To and are printed, not as in those editions, at the foot of the page, this improvement he attached considerable importance: and its but immediately after their respective portions of the text. Head. value will no doubt, be felt by those readers who may bestow suf- lines of Contents are prefixed to the respective columns. The ficient pains upon the subject to enter into his design. The student Marginal References and Renderings are omitted; such excepied may be advantageously referred to the book of Proverbs for a spe- as appear to be of considerable importance, and these are inter cimen of this addition to the work.-3. But the most important improvement which it has received, consists in the copious critical and involving Hebrew or Greek criticism, are likewise omitted. woven with the notes; various passages more strictly philological, remarks which have been introduced. Many of these occur in Some remarks in the notes, of a more practical nature, have been the Old Testament, in all which the original words in Hebrew removed, and introduced, in their proper places, into the Practical characters, pointed, have been substituted for the English letters, Observations. The high estimation in which this commentary is by which they had been before expressed, wherever any thing of held in France, caused it to be translated into French. Three por the kind occurred. In the New Testament these remarks are numerous. Here also new authorities are adduced in support of the Acts of the Apostles, and the Epistle of St. Paul to the Romans. tions have appeared, comprising the Gospel of St. Matthew, the criticisms which had been previously made, particularly from Schleusner, to whose valuable Lexicon of the Greek Testament the Sacred Scriptures, after the Eastern manner, from concur the author was indebted for much assistance. The critical re21. MACRAE.-A revised Translation and Interpretation of marks, it is also to be observed, are now uniformly carried to the rent authorities of critics, interpreters, and commentators, copies, end of the note, instead of being intersp、 sed in the body of it.— 4. Mr. Scott had finished the actual rev.sion of this great work seeds of the valuable sciences, being the source whence the annearly to the end of the Second Epistle to Timothy. The last pas-cient philosophers derived them, also the most ancient histories and versions; showing that the inspired writings contain the sage to which he put his hand was that striking declaration of St. Paul (2 Tim. iii. 1, 2.) so applicable to the present times. Although and greatest antiquities, and are the most entertaining as well several alterations (and some of them of considerable importance) as instructing to both the curious and serious. [By David Ma have been made in the fifth edition, subsequent to the verse just CRAE.] named; yet these have not been introduced without authority, but in 3 vols. 8vo. are taken, according to the author's directions, from a copy of the Glasgow, 1799, 8vo. Second edition, 1815, 4to.; also fourth edition, which he read over soon after its publication, making such corrections as occurred. The critical remarks also, contained in the former edition, have been, to the close, arranged, as nearly as possible, according to the plan adopted in the preceding parts of the work. "The capital excellency of this valuable and immense undertaking, perhaps, consists in following, more closely than any other, the fair and adequate meaning of every part of Scripture, without regard to the niceties of human systems: it is, in every sense of the expression, a scriptural comment. strong recommendation in its originality. Every part of it is It has likewise a further and a thought out by the author for himself, not borrowed from others. The later editions, indeed, are enriched with brief and valuable quotations from several writers of credit-but the substance of the work is entirely his own. production, in which you have the deliberate judgment of a masIt is not a compilation, it is an original culine and independent mind on all the parts of Holy Scripture. Every student will understand the value of such a work. Further, it is the comment of our age, presenting many of the last lights which history casts on the interpretation of prophecy, giving seve-strong ones (the limbs) be feeble, and (the teeth) the grinders shall ral of the remarks which sound criticism has accumulated from the different branches of sacred literature, obviating the chief objections which modern annotators have advanced against some of the distinguishing doctrines of the Gospel, and adapting the instructions of Scripture to the peculiar circumstances of the times in which we live. I may observe, also, that the faults of method and style, which considerably detract from the merit of some of his other writings, are less apparent here, where he had only to follow the order of thought in the sacred book itself; whilst all his powers and attainments had their full scope. It was the very undertaking which required, less than any other, the qualifications which he did not possess, and demanded, more than any other, those in which he excelled. It required matured knowledge of Scripture, skill as a textuary, sterling honesty, a firm grasp of truth, unfeigned submission of mind to every part of the inspired records, a holy temper of heart, unparalleled diligence and perseverance: and these were the very characteristics of the man. particulars it is added that he lived to superintend four editions, When to these each enriched with much new and important matter, and had been engaged above three years in a new one, in which for the fifth time he had nearly completed a most laborious revision of the whole work, we must at least allow the extent and importance of the author's exertions. Accordingly the success of the work has Deen rapidly and steadily increasing from the first, not only in our own country, but wherever the English language is known. It will soon be in the hands of most careful students of the holy volume, whether, in the first instance, they agree with the author's chief sentiments or not. Nor is the time distant when, the passing controversies of the day having been forgotten, this prodigious work will generally be confessed, in the Protestant Churches, to be one of the most sound and instructive commentaries produced in our own or any other age."-(The Bishop of Calcutta's Sermons, occasioned by the death of the Rev. Thomas Scott, pp. 33-35. 98. 3d edition.) To the preceding just character of this elaborate commentary, the writer of these pages (who does not view all topics precisely in the same point of view with its late learned author) deems it an act of bare justice to state that he has never consulted it in vain on difficult passages of the Scriptures. While occupied in considering the various objections of modern infidels, he for his own satisfaction thought out every answer if he may be allowed the expression) for himself. referring only to commentaries in questions of more than ordinary difficulty. And in every instanceespecially on the Pentateuch-he fou id, in Mr. Scott's Commen author has certainly succeeded in introducing very many approved say, I have no pleasure in them. 2. Before the sun, and the light, BULKLEY, published from the author's manuscript by Joshua tory nature. They are filled with what the author considers paral the use of the Pulpit and of Private Families, by Joseph PRIEST 8vo. biblical student; for, though the author "keeps his own creed These notes are well worthy of being consulted by the advanced modern socinianism] “continually in view, especially when considering those texts which other religious people adduce in favour of theirs, yet his work contains many invaluable notes and observations, particularly on the philosophy, natural history, geography. and chronology of the Scriptures: and to these subjects few men in Europe were better qualified to do justice." (Dr. A. Clarke, Commentary on the Bible, vol. i. p. xi.) 24. TRIMMER (Mrs.)—A Help to the Unlearned in the Study of the Holy Scriptures; being an attempt to explain the Bible in a familiar way, adapted to common apprehensions, and according to the opinions of approved Commentators. By Mrs. TRIMMER. London, 1805, 8vo. Also in 2 vols. 12mo. The benevolent authoress of this work was well known by her unwearied assiduity in promoting the welfare of the rising generation. Novelty of information she did not pretend to offer; but with out approving of every sentiment asserted in her work, it is but just to say, that it is a most useful help to the unlearned, and that the object announced in her preface has been fully accomplished; viz. To render "the study of the Bible easy and profitable to those who have but little leisure, or who may not be able to understand expositions of Scripture, in which more learning is displayed. The endeavour of the compiler has been to explain what is difficult, as far as is necessary for Christians in general to understand it; and to direct the attention of the Bible student to such passages and texts as require particular consideration, in order to produce a rational faith, and a right practice, founded immediately upon the word of God." 25. BURDER.-The Scripture Expositor; a new Commentary, Critical and Practical, on the Holy Bible. By the Rev. Samuel BURDER, A.M. London, 1809, 2 vols. in 4 parts, 4to. One prominent object of this work, which is both critical and practical, is, to illustrate the Scriptures by the assistance of Eastern customs. The author is advantageously known by his Oriental Customs and Oriental Literature, which publications are noticed in the subsequent part of this Appendix. 26. FAWCETT.-The Devotional Family Bible; containing the Old and New Testaments, with copious notes and illustrations, partly original, and partly selected from the most approved Commentators, both ancient and modern. With a devotional exercise or aspiration at the close of every chapter, by way of improvement. By John FAWCETT, D. London, 1811, 2 vols. royal 4to. This work is wholly designed for amily use; but the marginal renderings and parallel texts have been entirely omitted. The absence of these is inexcusable in any edition of the Bible above the size of a duodecimo volume. 27. HEWLETT.-The Holy Bible, containing the Old and New Testament, with the Apocrypha, with critical, philological, and Explanatory Notes. By the Rev. John HEWLETT, B.D. London, 1812, 3 vols. 4to. The typographical execution of this variorum edition of the Scriptures is singularly correct and beautiful; the parallel texts and marginal renderings are put at the foot of the text, and above the notes, which are selected with great industry. To the first volume are prefixed very copious prolegomena, containing every requisite nformation relative to the authenticity and inspiration of the Scripures; the formation of the sacred Canon, MSS. and editions of the Bible, sects, &c., with a variety of useful tables; and to the third volume is prefixed a compendious history of the Jews, from their estoration to Judæa, to the destruction of Jerusalem by the Romans; the whole forming a connection between the history of the Old and New Testament; and the work is terminated by three useful indexes. There are, however, some discrepancies in the notes, which are stated and animadverted upon in an ably conducted critical journal. (See British Critic, New Series, vol. ii. pp. 339. et seq.) Several of Mr. Hewlett's notes are elaborate critical disquisitions on important topics. Copies of this work may be purchased with maps, and numerous well executed engravings, after pictures by the most celebrated painters. In 1816, an edition of the notes, &c. was published without the text, entitled "Commenaries and Disquisitions on the Holy Scriptures," in 5 vols. 8vo., which may frequently be obtained at a very low price. 28. D'OrLY and MANT.-The Holy Bible according to the Authorized Version, with Notes explanatory and practical; taken principally from the most eminent writers of the United Church of England and Ireland; together with appropriate introductions, tables, indexes, maps, and plans, prepared and arranged by the Rev. G. D'OYLY, B.D. (now D.D.), and the Rev. Richard MANT, D.D. (now Bishop of Down and Connor). Oxford and London, 1814, 3 vols. 4to., and various subsequent editions printed at Cambridge and Oxford. New York, 1818-20, 2 vols. 4to. This work, which is published under the sanction of the venerable Society for promoting Christian Knowledge, professes to communicate only the result of the critical inquiries of learned men, without giving a detailed exposition of the inquiries themselves. These results, however, are selected with great judgment, so that the reader who may consult them on difficult passages will rarely be disappointed. Of the labour attending this publication some idea may be formed, when it is stated that the works of upwards of one hundred and sixty authors have been consulted for it, amounting to several hundred volumes. On the fundamental articles of Christian verity, the Deity and atonement of Jesus Christ, and the personality and offices of the Holy Spirit,—this work may be pronounced to be a library of divinity. The maps and engravings, though only outlines, are executed with much spirit. An index of matters is subjoined. There is a useful con cordance in 4to., edited by the Rev. T. W. Bellamy, B.D., which is usually bound up with this commentary and in the year 1818, the Rev. Dr. Wilson published another index, which is much more complete than that annexed to the work; and the student who can meet with it will do well to purchase it. The reprint at New York, which is very neatly executed in two large quarto volumes, was edited by the Rt. Rev. John Henry Hobart, D.D., Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the State of New York; who has greatly enhanced the value of this work by numerous additional notes, selected from the writings of upwards of thirty of the most eminent divines (not noticed by the Drs. Mant and D'Oyly), whose names are a sufficient pledge for the orthodoxy of the annotations Bishops Brown, Law, Leng, Mant, Middleton, and Van Mildert, of taken from their writings. Among the authors thus consulted are the Anglican Church: Bp. Gleig, of the Scottish Episcopal Church; and Bps. Seabury and White, of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America; Archdeacons Pott and Daubeny Rev. Drs. Nott, Rennel, William Sherlock, Spry, Wordsworth, A. Clarke, Scott, Allestree and Bisse, &c. &c. Many other no es are likewise selected from several of the authors cited by Bp. Mant and Dr. D'Oyly. Bp. Hobart's additional notes are twofold; 1. Critical and Explanatory; and, 2. Practical. The latter are most numerous, and are calculated greatly to increase the value of this Commentary as a FAMILY BIBLE. 28*. The Plain Reader's Help in the Study of the Holy Scriptures; consisting of Notes, explanatory and illustrative, chiefly selected or abridged from the Family Bible published by the Society for promoting Christian Knowledge. By the Rev. William Thomas BREE, M.A. Coventry, 1821-22. In two parts, forming one volume in small quarto. Although the greater part of the present volume is extracted or abridged from the preceding work, the editor has not confined himself exclusively to it. He has given some notes, which, though they do not occur in the Family Bible, are yet extracted from the same authors to whom Bp. Mant and Dr. D'Oyly had recourse in their compilation. Besides these, the editor has occasionally added a few notes of his own; and he has further availed himself of such notes in Sir John Bailey's edition of the book of Common Prayer. as suited his purpose. The editor's aim has been, to comprise within the space of a cheap and moderately sized volume a collection of notes on the Holy Scriptures, adapted to the capacity of ordinary readers, and designed for the benefit of such as have it not in their power to procure or consult larger works. This cheap and unpretending work, which is very little known, is neatly printed on two sorts of paper, in order to accommodate every class of purchasers. and New Testaments: the Text carefully printed from the most 29. CLARKE (Dr. A.)—The Holy Bible, containing the Old correct copies of the present authorized translation, including the marginal readings and parallel texts; with a Commentary and Critical Notes, designed as a help to a better understanding of the Sacred Writings. By Adam CLARKE, LL.D. F.A.S. London, 1810-1826, 8 vols. 4to. A new edition, revised and improved, 1833–34, in five volumes, royal 8vo. also in quarto. The commentary on the New Testament fills three volumes of this elaborate work: the remainder is devoted to the elucidation of the Old Testament. In this commentary, Dr. Clarke states, that the whole of the text has been collated with the Hebrew and Greek originals, and all the ancient versions: "the most difficult words are analyzed and explained; the most important readings in the col lections of Kennicott and De Rossi on the Old Testament, and in those of Mill, Wetstein, and Griesbach, on the New, are noticed; the date of every transaction, as far as it has been ascertained by the best chronologers, is marked; the peculiar customs of the Jews and neighbouring nations, so frequently alluded to by the prophets, thorities; the great doctrines of the Law and Gospel of God are evangelists, and apostles, are explained from the best Asiatic au defined, illustrated, and defended; and the whole is applied to the important purposes of practical Christianity." The work concludes with a copious index, and a selection of important various Readings of the New Testament, from ten ancient MSS. The literary world to Dr. Clarke for the light he has thrown on many very difficul in general, and biblical students in particular, are greatly indebted passages. The royal 8vo. edition was revised throughout, and prepared by the learned author for the press, before his decease. It is a cheap and very beautifully printed work. 30. THOMSON.-The Old Covenant, commonly called the Old Testament, translated from the Septuagint.-The New Covenant, commonly called the New Testament, translated from the Greek. By Charles THOMSON, late Secretary to the Congress of the United States. Philadelphia, 1808, 4 vols. 8vo This translation is, upon the whole, faithfully executed, though | 34. Devotional Comments: being a Series of Scriptural Ex that of the Old Testament, being a version of a version, can hardly positions, with a Prayer annexed to each subject. By Mrs. STE VENS. Knaresborough and London, 1823-31, 20 vols. 8vo. afford much assistance to the biblical student. The translation of the New Testament is much improved in the punctuation, and also m the arrangement of the objections and replies that occasion such frequent transitions in St. Paul's Epistles. The notes which accomany this work are very brief, but satisfactory as far as they go. Very few copies of Mr. Thomson's work have reached England; and even in America it has become very scarce and dear. 31. BELLAMY.-The Holy Bible, newly translated from the original Hebrew, with Notes, critical and explanatory. By John BELLAMY. London, 1818-21, 4to. Three parts only of this new translation have been published. The arrogant claims of the author and is extravagancies of interpretation have been exposed in the Quarterly Review, vols. xix. pp. 250-280. and xxiii. pp. 290-325.; in the Eclectic Review, vol. x. N. S. pp. 1-20. 130-150. 280-299.; in the Anti-jacobin Review, vol. liv. pp. 97-103. 193-207. 305-316.; in Mr. Whittaker's Historical and Critical Inquiry into the Interpretation of the Hebrew Scriptures, and Supplement to it, 8vo., Cambridge, 1819, 1820; in Professor Lee's Letter to Mr. Bellamy, Cambridge, 1821; and last, though not least in value, in Mr. Hyman Hurwitz's "Vindicia Hebraice," London, 1821, 8vo. 35. The Comprehensive Bible; containing the Old and New Testaments, according to the authorized Version, with the various readings and marginal notes usually printed therewith: a gene ral introduction, containing disquisitions on the genuineness, authenticity, and inspiration of the Ho.y Scriptures,-various divisions and marks of distinction in the sacred writings,ancient versions, coins, weights, and measures,-various sects among the Jews: introductions and concluding rem. `ks to each book: the parallel passages contained in the Rev. . Scott's Commentary, Canne's Bible, Rev. J. Brown's Self-Interpreting Bible, Dr. A. Clarke's Commentary, and the English Version of the Polyglott Bible [noticed in p. 21. of this Appendix, systematically arranged; philological and explanatory notes. With chronological and other indexes. [By William GREENFIELD.] London, 1827, crown 4to. demy 4to. and royal 4to. 36. A Commentary on the Holy Bible, from Henry and Scott. With occasional observations and notes from other writers. Vols. 32. BOOTHROYD.-A new Family Bible, and improved Ver-I-III.-V. [comprising Genesis to Solomon's Songs, and the sion, from corrected Texts of the Originals, with Notes, critical Gospel of Matthew to the Acts of the Apostles. By George and explanatory; and short Practical Reflections on each Chap- STOKES.] 1831-34, royal 12mo. or crown 8vo. ter. By the Rev. B. BOOтuROYD, LL.D. Pontefract and London, 1818, 1821, 1823, 3 vols. 4to. The Rev. Dr. Boothroyd has long been advantageously known as the editor of the critical edition of the Hebrew Bible with philological notes, of which we have given an account in rage 8. of this Appendix. His improved English Version of the Bible will be found a valuable help to the critical understanding of the Sacred Scriptures. Where any reading in the original is supported by the authority of ancient MSS. and Versions, Dr. B. has availed himself of it, and has inserted it in the text; always apprizing his readers of such changes, which (as we have had occasion to remark in our chapter on various readings) are not unfrequently real improvements. The Historical Books are printed in continuous paragraphs, the Poetical Books being printed in single lines. The first two volumes contain the Old Testament; the third, the New Testament. The numbers of the different verses are judiciously thrown into the margin; and the notes, which are placed at the foot of each page, possess the rare merit of condensing much important critical and explanatory matter in comparatively a small compass. To the whole, Dr. B. has prefixed a well-executed abridgment of Michae lis's Commentaries on the Law of Moses. 33. WILLIAMS.-The Cottage Bible and Family Expositor; containing the Authorized Translation of the Old and New Testaments, with Practical Reflections and short Explanatory Notes, calculated to elucidate difficult and obscure Passages. By Thomas WILLIAMS. London, 1825-27, 3 vols. 8vo. The object of this work is, to provide a commentary on the Holy Scriptures, compact in size and moderate in price, which may be useful to those whose opportunities for reading, or whose means of purchasing, render such a publication desirable; while the contents are suited for Christians of every station, rank, and denomina. tion. The valuable Commentaries of Henry and Scott have principally supplied the materials for the present publication. Theit most important observations are condensed and blended together, so as to form a continuous exposition. The editions used, are Henry's Exposition, edited by the Rev. Messrs. Burder and Hughes; and the first edition of Scott's Commentary. Numerous extracts from other authors (one hundred in number) have been inserted, where they appeared needful, and explanatory notes upon some passages have been added, most of which are designed to meet the misrepresentations of infidels. Due acknowledgment is made to the authors from whom the additional paragraphs are taken. This commentary, which is published at the expense of the Religious Tract Society, is beautifully and correctly printed with a new type. As the text is not inserted, it may be used with any edition of the authorized English version of the Bible: but, in size, it is principally adapted to the beautifully printed Oxford ruby Bible in small 8vo. published in 1827. 37. The Christian Expositor; or, Practical Guide to the Study of the Holy Scriptures, intended for the use of General Readers, By the Rev. George HOLDEN, A.M. London, 1824–30, 3 vols 12mo. Although many expositions of the Bible, of great and deserve celebrity, are happily extant in our language, a commentary suffi. ciently short to be read by those who have not leisure to consult learned and extensive works, yet sufficiently comprehensive to serve as a guide to the study of the Holy Scriptures, for general readers, is a desideratua. To supply this deficiency is the object of the present beautifully printed, cheap, and truly valuable work; which, though intended for the use of general readers,' comprises so much and such various information in a condensed form, expressed in neat and perspicuous language, that not only general readers, but also critical students, may gladly, profitably, and safely avail themselves of Mr. Holden's labours, without any apprehension of having imposed upon them the neologian interpretations of modern German critics and commentators. Every page indicates Mr. Holden's intimate acquaintance with all the best exegetical works on the Holy Scriptures, both British and Foreign. Vols. I. and II. appeared in 1834, Vol. III., containing the New Testament, was published as a separate work in 1830. See a notice of it in § 6. No. 46. p. 130. infra. This unassuming but cheap and useful commentary on the Holy Scriptures, though professedly designed for persons and families in the humbler walks of life, is not unworthy the attention of students of a higher class, who may not be able to purchase more bulky or more expensive commentaries; and on this account it is here noticed. The work is dedicated by permission to the learned and venerable Bishop of Salisbury. The first volume contains the whole of the Historical Books, and also the Book of Job: the second volume comprises the rest of the Old Testament. The New Testament forms the third volume. The following is the plan of publication: The authorized Version is neatly and clearly printed. Long chapters are broken into paragraphs of a suitable length, regulated by the subject-matter of them; and the Genealogies, Enumerations of the Tribes, and certain Ceremonial Laws of the Jews, which are not suitable for reading in families or schools, are printed in a smaller type, and are so distinguished that they may be omitted in reading, without difficulty or confusion. A few words, which are not in strict accordance with modern European | ideas of propriety, are exchanged for others; and to each chapter is given a concise practical exposition, compiled from various sources, together with brief critical notes (in which are interwoven the principal marginal readings and references) on difficult and obscure passages, especially such as have been alleged to be con- § 4. PRINCIPAL COMMENTATORS ON THE OLD TESTAMENT AND tradictory. The editor has carefully indicated the sources whence he has drawn his annotations;-a practice which, it were to be wished, had been followed by the anonymous compilers of some commentaries now circulating in numbers, as also in volumes, who have contrived to comprehend the most valuable remarks of others without any acknowledgment of the authors to whose labours they are indebted. Mr. Williams has also paid a laudable attention to those passages against which objections have been taken by modern keptics; for which portion of his work he was well qualified by nis former very useful publications in reply to the cavils and objections of Paine and other infidels of the last century. A concise Introduction is prefixed, vindicating the divine authority of the Holy Scriptures, and the learning and fidelity of the translators of our authorized English Version, and also pointing out the sources of Scripture difficulties, together with the means of their removal. The fine paper copies are handsome library books. ON DETACHED BOOKS THEREOF. [i.] Commentators on the Old Testament. 1. RICHARDSON (Bishop).-Choice Observations and Expla nations upon the Old Testament, containing in them many remarkable matters, either not taken notice of, or mistaken by most: which are additionals to the large annotations made by further and larger Observations on the whole book of Genesis. some of the Assembly of Divines: to which are added some By John RICHARDSON, Bishop of Ardagh. London, 1665, folio Bishop Richardson has been characterized by his contemporaries as a man of profound learning, well versed in the Scriptures, and of exact knowledge in sacred chronology. His Harmony of the Four Gospels, in which he led the way to a more exact arrangement of the narratives of the four evangelists, is printed in Archbishop and a general argument to each of them. By Richard KIDDER, Usher's Annals. Bishop Richardson's Annotations were published Bishop of Bath and Wells. London, 1694, 2 vols. 8vo. after his death: as they sell at a low price, they are not unworthy of the student's attention. 2. PYLE. A Paraphrase with short and Useful Notes on the Books of the Old Testament. By the Rev. Thomas PYLE, M.A. London, 1717-1725, 4 vols. 8vc. A learned and valuable work, though now not often to be me with. 5. Johannis MARCKII in præcipuas quasdam partes Pentateuchi Commentarius: seu ultimorum Jacobi, reliquorum Bilhami, et novissimorum Mozis, quæ leguntur Genes. xlvii. 9. Numer. These volumes extend to all the historical books of the Old Tes-xxii.-xxiv. et Deut. xxix.-xxxiii. Analysis Exegetica. Lugd. tament. Dr. Doddridge calls it "an elegant and judicious contraction" of Bishop Patrick's work, noticed in p 110 supra; and adds, that it is" vastly to be preferred to his Paraphrase on the Epistles," which is mentioned in p. 131. infra. Bat. 1713, 4to. 6. A Critical and Practical Exposition of the Pentateuch; with Notes, theological, moral, critical, philosophical and histo3. MARCHANT.-An Exposition of the Books of the Old Tes-rical. To which are subjoined two Dissertations:-1. On the tament, extracted from the Writings of the best Authors, ancient and modern. By John MARCHANT. London, 1745, folio. 4. ORTON.-A short and plain Exposition of the Old Testament, with devotional and practical Reflections for the use of families, subjoined to each chapter, somewhat in the manner of Dr. Doddridge's Family Expositor. By the late Rev. Job ORTON. 6 vols. 8vo. 1788-1791; second edition. London, 1822, 6 vols. 8vo. The work was published after the author's death by Mr. Gentleman of Kidderminster: it contains notes chiefly collected from modern expositors, of which "it cannot be said that they are eminently critical; but they often convey valuable instruction, and the reflections are admirably adapted to promote the purposes of serious religion." (Biographia Britannica, 2d edit. vol. v. p. 311. See also Month. Rev. O. S. vol. Ixxix. p. 329.) To form a complete comment on the Scriptures. Mr. Orton's paraphrase may be joined with Mr. Palmer's abridgment of Dr. Doddridge, noticed in page 129. infra. Mosaic history of the creation, and 2. On the destruction of the seven nations of Canaan. London, 1748, folio. This Exposition is compiled with considerable industry from the labours of the best interpreters ancient and modern. It was origi nally published in numbers, and was designed to have been a complete commentary on the entire Bible: but not meeting with sufficient encouragement, the author (a Mr. JAMESON) proceeded no further than the Pentateuch. It is not of common occurrence. 7. A New and Literal Translation, from the original Hebrew, of the Pentateuch of Moses, and of the Historical Books of the Old Testament to the end of the second book of Kings; with Notes, critical and explanatory. By the late Rev. Julius BATE. London, 1773, 4to. "It is most certainly a new translation, and so very literal as to be really unintelligible to a plain English reader." (Monthly Review, O. S. vol. 1. p. 106.) 8. The Pentateuch, or the Five Books of Moses illustrated being an Explication of the Phraseology incorporated with the text, for the use of Families and Schools. By the Rev. S. CLAPHAM. London, 1818, 12mo. 5. GEDDES.-The Holy Bible, or the Books accounted sacred, otherwise called the Books of the Old and New Covenants, faithfully translated from the corrected Texts of the Originals, "As a substitute for expensive commentaries on the Bible, and with various readings, explanatory notes, and critical remarks. as the means of providing in many interesting respects for the inBy Alexander GEDDES, LL.D. 4to. London, vol. i. 1792, vol. ii.struction and edification of those persons who may not have leisure 1797. Critical Remarks on the Hebrew Scriptures, 4to. London, to procure more copious volumes, the present work will be accepta1800, vol. i. on the Pentateuch. blo The plan of it is judicious, and the execution is on the whole respectable, and must have cost the editor no inconsiderable expense of labour." (Eclectic Review, N. S. vol. xiii. p. 74.) The two volumes of Dr. Geddes's version include the historical books from Genesis to Chronicles, and the book of Ruth. Of the doctor's heterodox commentaries and versions, the reader may see an ample examination and refutation in the 4th, 14th, 19th, and 20th volumes of the British Critic, old series. The learned doctor's work is here noticed, lest the author should be charged with designedly omitting it. [ii.] Commentators on detached Books of the Old Testament. ON THE PENTATEUCH. 9. An Analytical Exposition of the whole First Book of Moses, called Genesis, and of xxiii. chapters of his Second Book, called Exodus. Wherein the various readings are observed; the original text explained; doubts resolved; Scriptures paralleled; the Scripture Chronology from the Creation of the World to the giving of the Law at Mount Sinai cleared; and the whole illustrated by doctrines collected from the text. Delivered in a Morning Exercise on the Lord's Day. By George HUGHES, B.D., late Minister of the Gospel in Plymouth. (Plymouth), 1672, folio. 1. Hora Mosaice; or a Dissertation on the Credibility and Theology of the Pentateuch. By George Stanley FABER, B.D.rence. Second Edition. London, 1818, 2 vols. 8vo. 4to. A very elaborate and curious work; it is not of common occur. 10. The Hebrew Text of the Parallel Prophecies of Jacob This elaborate Treatise contains the substance of the eight Bamp- and Moses, relative to the Twelve Tribes, with a translation and ton Lectures delivered by Mr. Faber before the University of Ox-notes, and the various lections of near forty MSS., &c. &c. By ford, and published in 1801. "Those who have not the means or D. DURELL, D.D., Principal of Hertford College. Oxford, 1764, leisure to consult the very valuable works of Mr. Bryant, Mr. Maurice, and Sir W. Jones, in this line, will find in these volumes many of the most striking facts brought together, and so arranged as jointly to corroborate and confirm the events recorded in the Pentateuch. The references to other authors are numerous; nor are these confined solely to the ancients. Additional notes and illustrations are to be found at the end of each volume." (Brit. Crit. vol. xix. O. S. pp. 382. 388.) The second edition, published in 1818, is very materially enlarged and greatly improved by its learned author. 1. Principles for the Proper Understanding of the Mosaic Writings stated and applied. By the Rev. J. J. BLUNT, B.D. London, 1833, 8vo. 2. The Character of Moses established for Veracity as an Historian, recording Events from the Creation to the Deluge. By the Rev. Joseph TOWNSEND, M.A. Vol. I. London, 1813; Vol. II. Bath, 1815, 4to. For an analysis of this work, see the Quarterly Review, vol. xiv. pp. 96-112 and the Eclectic Review, O. S. vol. x. pp. 32-49. 3. Annotations upon the Five Books of Moses, the Book of Psalms, and the Song of Songs or Canticles. By Henry AINSWORTH. London. 1639, folio. This work is a good book, full of very valuable Jewish learnng; and his translation is in many places to be preferred to our own, especially on the Psalms." (Dr. Doddridge.) It was translated into Dutch in 1699, and is highly esteemed on the continent. 4. A Commentary on the Five Books of Moses, with a Dissertation concerning the Author or Writer of the said Books, 4 H VOL. II. GENESIS. 11. Joannis MERCERI Commentarius in Genesin. Geneva, 1598, folio. 12. Hexapla in Genesin: that is, a Sixfold Commentary upon Genesis, wherein six several translations are compared, where they differ, with the Original! Hebrew, and Pagnine and Montanus' Interlinearie Interpretation. Together with a sixfold use of every chapter, showing 1. The Method or Argument; .2. The Divers Readings; 3. The Explanation of Difficult Questions, and Doubtfull Places; 4. The Places of Doctrine; 5. Places of Confutation; 6. Morall Observations. By Andrew WILLET. 13. A Few and New Observations upon the Book of Genesis, also a Handful of Gleanings out of the Book of Exodus. By John LIGHTFOOT, D.D. Works, vol. i. p. 698. London, 1684, folio. 14. A Specimen of an Universal View of all the Eminent Writers on the Holy Scriptures: being a Collection of the Dissertations, Explications, and Opinions of the learned Men, in all ages, concerning the Difficult Passages and Obscure Texts of the Bible; and of whatever is to be met with in profane authors which may contribute to the better understanding of them. By the Rev. Jonathan SMEDLEY, Dean of Clogher. 1728, folio. This Specimen contains only the first chapter of Genesis; the work which it announces never having been published. The author proposed, 1. To exhibit at length the words of the inspired authors; 2. To quote the chief commentators in Pool's Synopsis, on every subject, as they are ranged by him; 3. To set down the judg ment of ancient historians, philosophers, poets, &c.; and to reserve the last place for moderns, especially English and French Divines. A copy of this specimen is in the library of the British Museum. 28. Brief Observations upon some of the first Chapters of the Book of Genesis. London, 1827, 8vo. 29. Libri Geneseos secundum Fontes rite dignoscendos Adum bratio nova. In usum Prælectionum scripsit Dr. C. P. W GRAMBERG, Lipsiæ, 1828, 8vo. This writer adopts the hypothesis of some modern German critics, 15. A New English Translation, from the original Hebrew, of the First Three Chapters of Genesis, with marginal illustra- that the book of Genesis is a compilation by a third person from twɔ tions, and notes, critical and explanatory. By Abraham Daw-primary documents, which he designates by the terms "Jehovista and "Elohista," from the appellation of Jehovah and Elohim given to the Almighty. He adopts the untenable notion that the history of the creation and Fall of Man is a philosophical and poetical mythos, or fable. SON, M.A. London, 1763, 4to. 16. A Fourth and Fifth Chapter of Genesis, translated from the original Hebrew. By Abraham DAWSON, M.A. London, 1772. 4to. This is a compilation from various authors, "which, if not a brilliant, may in some degree be considered as a useful performance. (Month. Rev. New Series, vol. iv. p. 106.) 19. Sacred Literature, or Remarks on the Book of Genesis, corrected and arranged to promote the knowledge and evince the excellency of the Scriptures. By James FRANKS, A.M. London, 1802, 8vo. 30. T. P. C. KAISER Commentarius in priora Geneseos CaNorimbergæ, 1829, 8vo. pita, quatenus universæ populorum mythologia claves exhibent. 31. An Essay on the Book of Genesis; being an attempt to reconcile the Incongruities in the Mosaical Account of the Creation of the World. Dublin, 1830, 12mo. 31*. The Worship of the Serpent traced throughout the world and its Traditions referred to the Events in Paradise; proving the Temptation and Fall of Man by the Instrumentality of a Serpent Tempter. By the Rev. John Bathurst DEANE, M.A London, 1830, 8vo. Second Edition, 1833, 8vo. Though not a commentary on the book of Genesis, "The Mosaic History of the Creation of the World, illustrated by Discoveries and Experiments derived from the present State of Science, by Thomas WooD" (8vo. London, 1818), deserves a notice in this place, as a very elaborate illustration of the first chapter of Genesis. Science is here rendered the handmaid of Revelation. To the work is prefixed a view of the cosmogony of the ancients, which pre-exhibits very considerable research. The religious improvements are both natural and scriptural: the doctrine of the Trinity is here scripturally defended, and its authorities are clearly adduced. A philosophical exposition of the first chapter of Genesis is attempted in "The Ancient Principles of the True and Sacred Philosophy, as lately explained by John Hutchinson, Esq. Originally published in Latin by A. S. Catcott. Translated with Notes, and a Prelimi nary Dissertation on the Character and Writings of Moses. By Alexander MAXWELL. London, 1822, 8vo. This work is nearly similar in design and execution to the ceding; it consists principally of extracts from other books. The author has contented himself with forming the arrangement, which is clear and good, and inserting short passages to serve for connection and elucidation. The volume begins with general remarks on the Scriptures, and then proceeds through the book of Genesis in the order of the chapters; containing in the whole three hundred and fifteen remarks upon that book, illustrative of the matter contained in it, and collected from the best authors of all descriptions." (Brit. Crit. O. S. vol. xxi. pp. 680, 681.) 20. Hermanni VENEMA Dissertationes Selectæ ad Sacram Scripturam Veteris et Novi Testamenti: quarum Tom. I. Pars I. continet Dissertationes quinque ad Librum Geneseos: Pars II. continet Commentarium ad Gen. xlix. 1-27. Leovardia, 174750, 4to. 21. Critical and Explanatory Notes on Genesis, Exodus, Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, Daniel, and the Minor Prophets; together with some Dissertations on several difficult Passages of Scripture, &c. &c. By the Rev. Henry DIMOCK. Gloucester, 1804, 4to. EXODUS. 32. Hexapla in Exodum: that is, a sixfold Commentary upon the Book of Exodus, according to the Method propounded in Hexapla upon Genesis. By Andrew WILLET. London, 1608. folio. 33. Exodus; a corrected Translation, with notes, critical and explanatory. By William HOPKINS, B.A. London, 1784, 4to. The translator has, in general, executed his task with fidelity; and, where it could be done with propriety (or where the read22. A Dissertation on the Fall of Man; in which the Literalings of the Samaritan copy would permit it) he has adopted." he says, the English vulgar translation, in order to prevent any Sense of the Mosaic Account of that Event is asserted and prejudices that might be infused into the minds of the common vindicated. By the Rev. George HOLDEN, M.A. London, 1823, people by uncharitable bigots.' In the notes we meet with little that can gratify the taste of curious and critical readers; and his England might well have been spared in a work of this nature severe reflections on the articles and liturgy of the Church of (Monthly Rev. O. S. vol. lxxii. p. 412.) 8vo. The Scripture History of the Fall of Man has met with many strenuous adversaries, who have endeavoured to explain it away in various ways; while it is utterly rejected by many of those who have rejected the doctrine of the atonement. In the second volume of this work (Chap. I. Sec. II. pp. 205, 206.), the literal sense of the first three chapters of Genesis is briefly vindicated; but it has been reserved for Mr. Holden to consider the subject most fully and distinctly. All the efforts of perverted criticism to reduce the Mosaic History of the Fall of Man to allegory, fable, or mythos, are here examined in detail; and the objections of its adversaries to the literal sense of that history are minutely and satisfactorily refuted. 23. Two Dissertations:-1. On the Tree of Life in Paradise, with some Observations on the Fall of Man. 2. On the Oblations of Cain and Abel. By Benjamin KENNICOTT, M.A. Oxford, 1747, 8vo. JOSHUA AND THE OTHER HISTORICAL BOOKS. 34. Josu Imperatoris Historia, illustrata atque explicata at Andrea MasIo. Antwerp, 1574, folio; and also in the Critici Sacri. A work of very considerable value, on account of its containing the readings of the Syriac Hexaplar version, the manuscript of which Masius possessed. This manuscript is said to have been written in the year 606, and is the only one that preserves the readings of Joshua, as given by Origen. 35. C. H. van HERWERDEN Disputatio de Libro Josuæ, sive de diversis ex quibus constat Josua Liber monumentis, deque ætate quâ eorum vixerunt auctores. Groninga, 1828, 8vo. 36. Historia RUTH, ex Ebræo Latinè conversa et Commentario explicata. Ejusdem Historia Translatio Græca ad Exemplar Complutense, et Notæ in eandem. Opera ac Studio Joannis DRUSII. Amsterdami, 1632, 4to. 37. A Comment on Ruth by Thomas] F[ULLER], B. D. London, 1654, 8vo. 38. John Henr. MICHAELIS, Chr. Ben. MICHAELIS, et Joh. Jac. RAMBACHII, Note Uberiores in HAGIOGRAPHA. Hale, 1735-1751, 3 vols. 4to. Of this work, the elder Michaelis wrote the annotations on the first book of Chronicles, the Psalms, book of Job, and Song of Solomon: C. B. Michaelis was the author of those on Proverbe |