The Minor Prophets: With a Commentary, Explanatory and Practical, and Introductions to the Several Books - Couverture rigide
Présentation de l'éditeur
The object of the following pages is to evolve some portion of the meaning of theW ord of God. In regard to the literal meaning of the sacred text, I have given that which, after a matured study spread over more than thirty years, I believe to be the true, or, in some cases, the more probable only. In so doing, I have purposely avoided all show of learning or embarrassing discussion, which belong to the dictionary or grammar rather than to a commentary on Holy Scripture. Where it seemed to me necessary, on some unestablished point, to set down in some measure, the grounds of the rendering of any word or phrase, I have indicated it very briefly in the lower margin .I hoped, in this way, to make it intelligible to those acquainted with the sacred language, without interrupting the developement of the meaning of the text, which presupposes a knowledge of the verbal meaning. Still less have I thought the discussion of different renderings of ancient Versions suited to a commentary of this sort. As soon as one is satisfied that any given rendering of an ancient Version does not correctly reprcser. i the Hebrew original, the question how the translators came so to render it, by what misreading or mishearing, or guess, or paraphrase, belongs to a history of that Version, not to the explanation of the sacred original. Still more distracting is a discussion of the various expositions of modern commentators, or an enumeration of names, often of no weight, who adhere to one or the other rendering,or perhaps originated some crotchet of their own. These things, which so often fill modern commentaries, have a show of learning, but embarrass rather than aid a reader of Holy Scripture. I have myself examined carefully every commentator, likely or unlikely to contribute any thing to the understanding of the sacred text; and, if I have been able to gain little from modern Ger
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