Biblical Commentary on the New Testament
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ISBN13: 9780217444590
Paperback|9780217444590
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: AUTHOR'S PREFACE, The plan and arrangement of this work, notwithstanding many alterations and additions in the details, remain essentially the same in this new edition of the Commentary, since I think I may take it for granted that, in these points, I have met the wants of our times. I regard it as my chief object to bring out the inward unity of the whole New Testament, and of the Scriptures generally, and, by the interpretation, to introduce the reader to the unity of life and spirit in the Sacred Books. To have been continually noticing interpretations which originate in entirely remote views, as well as to have been constantly opposing unchristian tendencies, would have rendered it impossible to enter into the spirit of the Bible, since in that way the flow of the spirit would necessarily have been interrupted. Excgctical lectures have to supply what is necessary in reference to the enumeration of different interpretations, to the refutation of errors, to grammar, archaeology, and history. Hence it naturally follows, that, in this third edition, such lately published works as Strauss' Life of Jesus, and De Wette's Commentary (who professes to agree with Strauss in the principles, but would prefer a less extensive application of them, which is, indeed, evidently inconsistent, as Strauss has very justly demonstrated in reply to him, see Berliner Jahrbuchcr, 1837, No. 1, ff.), could not be noticed by me, so far as there is a difference of principles between their authors and myself. In those passages where that difference was not involved, I have not omitted to notice these works also, but have used them as well as treatises more congenial to my own mind, among which I mention particularly Tholuck's masterly exposition on the Sermon on the Mount, in order by strictimparti...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217444590 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217444598 |
| Weight | 1.89 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 1.32 In |
| List Price | $36.74 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 592 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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