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(;o\imi:n'1'ary on the holy sciuptures,, FOR THE UNLEARNKD. * ' '' Many readers of" Holy Scripture slill leel the want of a Com- mentary, fitted at once to draw out the practical and devotional teaching, the true living- import of" the Text, and to give them lielps enough to carry them through the hard ])assages they meet with, so far as can be done without pretending to more knowledge than we possess.
The sort of ex]^osition which seems desirable, is one which will answer, in some degree, the following conditions: — 1. It should rather give the result of" acq.uaintance with the original languages, than involve the reader in critical enquiry.
2. It should be based, as its groundwork, upon our admirable received Version, wrought as that is into the very substance of" devotional minds amongst us. Still, without undutifulness, any additional meaning may be supplied, which the original may contain, beyond \Yhat is, or perhaps can be, expressed by any single rendering; or another rendering may occasionally be suggested, according to the precedent of our existing marginal renderings. As far, however, as this should be done, it would be the desire of the writers neither to perplex the English reader, nor to unsettle any as to our present Version, which they themselves so much reverence.
3. It should embody, as far as may be, or remould the valuable expositions of older writers, (especially the Fathers,) rather than set down different explanations, side by side, (after the manner of Catena),) or (ordinarily speaking) discuss them.
4. It should be confined to one or two leading spiritual inter- pretations (where these are called for) relating to Christ and His Body the Church, or the soul of each individual member of Christ's mystical body, rather than give manifold spiritual meanings. For these, although all contained in the depths of Holy Scripture, (as the prismatic colours are in light,) and all beautiful, still rather perplex a reader who has not been accustomed to look for them, or to consider how they may be evolved out of that original light. In attempting this, the writers would hope, (following the Fathers,) to take as their guides, as far as may be, leading interpretations in Holy Scripture itself.
5. But chiefly, such an exposition should endeavour, in all good faith, to introduce nothing of the writer's own into Holy Scripture, but to evolve some ])ortion of the meaning of Holy Scrij)ture itself; to bring truths not into, but out of, Holy Writ. And this the writers would desire to do, in the full conviction, that all truth does indeed lie in Holy Scripture, although individuals must necessarily be unable to see more than the skirts of it; and they therefore defer to the wisdom of those before them, and of the Church collectively, not as any thing additional to Holy Scripture, but as derived from Him Who is the Wisdom of God, teaching them to understand Holy Scripture, through that Holy Spirit Who inspired it.
hi tliis attempt tlioir lioprj is, not to involvij the rea.(]er iii coii- troversy, but, on the contrary, to bring back whom they may, from restless and often irreverent controversies and sp(;enlalions, to llie deep, pure, cabn waters of the river of God, lioping that by reverent contemplation and study of it, we, in God's good time, may find the full trutli, which now is too often divided among us; sec its reality, whicli in disputation too often eludes men's grasp; and hx- refreshed by it, or rather by Him Who is the Truth, instead of b(;ing dried up by controversies about it.
They are also convinced, that the great bulwark against modern scepticism lies in the reverent study and unfolding of tlie meaning of Holy Scripture itself; that Holy Scripture so studied does carry with it the conviction of its own Divinity; and that thereby alone (with corresponding life) can the Faith be maintained against the unbelief of ^' the last days."
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