15. Scripture Characters: or, a Practical Improvement of the Principal Histories in the Old and New Testament. By Thomas ROBINSON, M.A. London, 4 vols. 8vo. and 12mo. various editions.

An abridgment of this well-known and deservedly-esteemed work was published in 1817, in 12mo.

16. Female Scripture Characters, exemplifying Female Virtues. By Mrs. KING. Tenth edition. London, 1826, 12mo. The pious and accomplished authoress of this excellent work, which was first published in 1811, composed it expressly for the use of females, in order to supply the absence of Female Scripture Characters in Mr. Robinson's volumes, in which two women only are introduced. Mrs. King's work is much and deservedly used in schools as well as in private families.

17. Female Scripture Biography; including an Essay on what Christianity has done for Women. By Francis Augustus Cox, M.A. London, 1817, 2 vols. 8vo.

18. Scripture Biography; or, Lives and Characters of the Principal Personages recorded in the Old and New Testaments. By John WATKINS, LL.D. London, 1809, 12mo.

19. Scripture Portraits: or, Biographical Memoirs of the most Distinguished Characters recorded in the Old Testament and in the Evangelists. By Robert STEVENSON. London, 1817-20, 4 vols. 12mo.

and Death of Jesus Christ. With Considerations and Discourses upon the several parts of the story, and Prayers fitted to the several mysteries. By Jeremy TAYLOR, D.D., Bishop of Dowr and Connor, folio: also in 2 vols. 8vo. various editions.

This work is also to be found in the second and third volumes of the Collective Works of Bishop Taylor, edited by the Rev. J. R. Pitman, with a memoir of the bishop's life and writings by the late Bishop Heber; who has given an able and interesting analysis of the Great Exemplar,' and has pointed out some important particulars," in which this great and good man has departed from the usual Taylor's Works, vol. i. pp. exxix.-cxxxix.) An abridgment of the sense of the church, and the general analogy of Scripture." (Bishop Great Exemplar' was published by the Rev. W. Darnell, London,

1818, 8vo.

24. The History of the Life of Jesus Christ, taken from the New Testament, with Observations and Reflections, proper to illustrate the Excellency of his Character and the Divinity of his Mission and Religion. By George BENSON, D.D. London, 1764, 4to.

25. Observations on the History of Jesus Christ, serving to illustrate the Propriety of his Conduct and the Beauty of his Character. By David HUNTER, D.D. Edinburgh, 1770, 2 vols. 8vo.

These volumes, which are neither scientific nor elementary, are designed for well-informed but not learned readers: each article, in alphabetical order, contains a narrative of facts drawn from the Bible, an explanation of difficulties, a sketch of the character, and finally a short summary of the principal texts of Scripture, in which the person is mentioned, besides those which immediately relate to his history. The work is, upon the whole, executed with ability: the objections of infidels are fairly met, and satisfactorily answered, and many judicious reflections are interspersed.

26. The Private Character of our Lord Jesus Christ, conof his Mission. By Thomas WILLIAMS. London, 1833, 12mo. Both these works contain many ingenious and instructive remarks on the character and conduct of Jesus Christ, which are either not at all noticed, or but imperfectly considered by preceding writers who have discussed the evidences of the Christian Religion.

A book above all praise; it was occasioned by the publication, in 1762, of a vile and blasphemous tract, entitled "The History of the Man after God's own heart." Dr. Chandler has illustrated many of the Psalms in an admirable manner.

22. An Historical Account of the Life and Reign of David King of Israel: interspersed with various Conjectures, Digressions, and Disquisitions. In which, among other things, Mr. Bayle's criticisms upon the conduct and character of that Prince are fully considered. [By Patrick DELANY, D.D.] London, 174142, 3 vols. 8vo.

A respectable and useful work, but greatly inferior to Dr. Chandler's masterly "Critical History of the Life of David:" it was published anonymously, and has been repeatedly printed; and may frequently be obtained at a low price.

23. The Great Exemplar of Sanctity and Holy Life according to the Christian Institution; described in the History of the Life

In the present as well as in the preceding sections of this Appendix, the Author has endeavoured to bring forward the principal Commentators and Biblical Critics, both British and foreign. Many of them, indeed, are too costly to be purchased by the generality of biblical students; but a considerable portion, if not the whole of them, is to be found in our public libraries, and it is desirable to know in what works the best information is to be procured, even though we may not in every instance be able to purchase them, cheap books which are of comparatively little utility. Ample as these lists are, they might have easily been enlarged, particularly with reference to the earlier works on Sacred Philology, if the limits of the present volume would have permitted it. The reader, however, who is curious in seeing what has been written on this subject, may (besides the authorities already referred to in p. 113. of this Appendix) consult the first volume of the classed Catalogue of the Library of the President and Fellows of Queen's College, Cambridge (London, 1827, royal 8vo.), pp. 22-91.; and also the Bibliotheca Piersoniana, or Catalogue of the Rev. Dr. Pierson's Library (sold by auction in May, 1815). The Sale Catalogues of the principal theological Booksellers of London, which are frequently interspersed with useful bibliographical notices, are particularly valuable, for the numerous commentaries and other works on sacred criticism which they contain, both British and foreign, especially the latter.

On the choice of commentators, it would be presumptuous in the author of this work to offer an opinion; the student will doubtless be regulated in his selection by the judgment of judicious friends or theological tutors.

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5*. The Psalms in Hebrew, metrically arranged by the Rev. J. ROGERS. Oxford and London, 1833, 1834. 2 vols. 12mo. This very useful edition of the Book of Psalms is beautifully printed. Vol. I. contains the Hebrew text, metrically arranged according to the plan to which Bishop Lowth led the way in his Lectures on Hebrew Poetry, and which was subsequently adopted by Dr. Kennicott in his Critical Edition of the Hebrew Scriptures, and in some respects improved by Dr. Jahn in his edition of the Hebrew Bible. Vol. II. consists of two essays: 1. On the Character and Construction of Hebrew Poetry; and 2. On the Various Readings of the Hebrew Bible. These are followed by Select Various Readings of the Book of Psalms, Notes on the Metrical Arrangement of the Psalms, and Notes (chiefly critical) on the text itself. This volume is concluded by a short notice of the Ambrosian Manuscript of the Syriac Version of the Psalms.

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6*. The Lyre of David; or, an Analysis of the Psalms, Critical and Practical; to which is added a Hebrew and Chaldee Grammar, by Victorinus Bythner. Translated by the Rev. Thomas DEE, A. B. To which are added by the Translator, a Praxis of the first eight Psalms, and tables of the imperfect verbs. Dublin and London, 1836. 8vo.

A translation of Bythner's Lyra, with a few omissions, and various improvements, which much increase its value to the biblical student.

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varying from that of the present edition, are given in the critical notes. The punctuation has been again revised, and various improvements have been introduced.

2. The Tabular Parallels, representing the harmony of the four Gospels, which had originally been derived from Dr. Vater's edition, have been re-collated and revised, and many corrections and improvements have been introduced, either by the removal of references which were not strictly parallel, or by the introduction of new and important parallel references, chiefly derived from the Rev. Edward Greswell's valuable Harmonia Evangelica,' and Dissertations.' And the Collection of Marginal References throughout the New Testament has been materially corrected and improved. 3. But the chief improvement will be found in the Annotations. Among these, the Critical Notes are greatly increased in number as well as importance, especially by a perpetual reference to Dr. Scholz's edition of the Greek Testament, the results of whose labours, as far as is practicable, are now laid before the reader. The Exegetical Notes have received equal attention, and now form a perpetual commentary in epitome; in which the connexion of passages is traced, the course of the sacred writer's arguments is developed, and the doctrinal harmony of sentiment with other parts of Scripture is displayed. In these notes numerous apposite parallel constructions are introduced from Classical Authors, besides some select elucidations from Rabbinical Writers. The Glossarial words or phrases, are made so comprehensive, as, with the aid of Notes, which establish or illustrate the sense of all really difficult the Greek Index of words and phrases explained, to render it less frequently necessary for the student to refer to a Lexicon.

4. The typographical execution of this edition of the Greek Testament is as beautiful as it is correct: and its value is not a little enhanced by the addition of an entirely New Map of Palestine and Syria, which is prefixed to the first volume. This map, which is

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Dr. Scholz's edition of Griesbach's Greek Testament, has been discontinued in consequence of the death of the learned editor. The volume is very neatly printed..

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The second volume of Dr. Scholz's edition of the Greek Testament appeared in 1836. It contains the text of the Acts of the Apostles, the Epistles, and the Apocalypse, with the various readings, which are displayed in the same order as in the first volume. The Prolegomena comprise an account of the manuscripts of these books, whether collated by previous editors or by himself; including some addenda to the Prolegomena of the first volume. An appendix is subjoined which treats on the additions prefixed and annexed to the manuscripts of the Acts and Epistles; and 2. On the Synaxaria and Menologia found in the manuscripts of the Acts and Epistles which are preserved at Paris. This is the completest critical edition of the Greek Testament, with various readings, which has ever been published.

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Dr. Bloomfield published a SECOND edition of the Greek Testament in 1836, with great improvements and important additions. Much, however, as had been done in the two preceding impressions, the THIRD edition, which is stereotyped, is yet further enlarged, (to the extent of not less than 200 pages,) and very materially improved. In addition to his own researches, Dr. Bloomfield has availed himself of various suggestions for the improvement of his work, which in its present state exhibits the result of the labours of all preceding critical editors of the New Testament, as well as of his own researches for more than thirty years. The following are the leading features of this edition:

1. The Text has again been carefully examined and finally settled, so as to form-in effect-a new and accurate recension; which is so constructed as to represent both the common and the corrected text, and at the same time adverts to the various texts formed by the best preceding critical editors, especially Griesbach, Matthæi, and Scholz. The readings of Dr. Scholz's text, when

works of the Jewish historian, Josephus, has been drawn by Mr. Arrowsmith, from the most recent and important authorities, under the special direction of Colonel Leake.

of preceding editors, this third edition of the Greek Testament, by Upon the whole, without depreciating the merit of the labours Dr. Bloomfield, may justly be regarded as the most valuable for biblical students, that has yet been issued from the press in this country.

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dex San-Gallensis Græco-Latinus interlinearis, nunquam adhuc 60. Antiquissimus Quatuor Evangeliorum Canonicorum Cocollatus. Ad similitudinem ipsius libri manu scripti accuratissime delineandum, et lapidibus exprimendum curavit H. C. M. RETTIG. Turici, 1836. 4to.

This is a beautifully lithographed copy of a valuable manuscript of the four Gospels hitherto uncollated. The prolegomena of the editor detail the plan adopted in his publication, and the external appearance of the manuscript; which, he shows, must have been written in Switzerland, and by several copyists. Its affinity with the Codex Boernerianus of the Epistles is then proved. One chapter is devoted to the consideration of the confusion of letters occuring in the Codex San-Gallensis; another, to the marginal notes written on the manuscript; and a third, to its country, and to the age when it was written. The last chapter of the prolegomena contains a copy of the Poem of Hilary, Bishop of Arles, upon the Gospel, which is prefixed to the Codex San-Gallensis. The facsimile then follows; and thirty-four closely printed pages of annotations terminate this carefully edited volume, a copy of which is in the Library of the British Museum.

61. Ἡ ΚΑΙΝΗ ΔΙΑΘΗΚΗ. Εx editione Stephani tertia, 1550. The New Testament of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ: according to the authorized version. The Greek and English texts arranged in parallel columns. A New Edition, with the addition of the marginal references. Cambridge, at the Pitt Press, 1836.

12mo.

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Testament, biblical students are indebted to the Rev. James SCHOLEFIELD, M. A., Regius Professor of Greek; who states, that "The only variations, introduced into this edition from that of Robert Stephens, 1550, (besides occasional changes in the punctuation, and the correction of manifest typographical errors,) are the following:-In Matt. vi. 24, and Luke xvi. 14, the word pauwva is uniformly printed after Griesbach; whereas in Stephens it varies between the single and double . 2. In Matt. xxiii. 13, 14, the order of the verses is inverted, to make it agree with the English version. 3. In Mark xiv. 19, John vii. 9, Romans xii. 5, kaeis is uniformly printed as one word, which, in the first passage, Stephens divides into two. 4. In 1 Peter iii. 11, the words dyasov (nrnoára are retained, though omitted in Stephens's edition; as this omission appears to have been purely accidental, contrary to all MSS. versions, and former editions. In the marginal references, which are introduced into this edition, the translations, enclosed between brackets, are those, which have been added subsequently to 1611, chiefly by Dr. Blayney, in his revision, published at Oxford, 1769."

62. 'H KAINH AIAOHKH. The New Testament in Greek, chiefly from the text of Mill, with copious English notes.... To which are annexed a Chronological Harmony, and three Indexes. By the Rev. William TROLLOPE, M.-A. London 1837, 8vo. For an account of this edition of the Greek Testament, see the Christian Remembrancer for February 1838, (vol. xx. pp. 65–70.) 63. The New Testament in Greek and English, with the usual Marginal References and Readings, a Marginal Harmony, or Concordance of Words, and a graduated collection of various Readings from Griesbach. Arranged and edited by Edward CARDWELL, D. D. Oxford, 1837. 2 vols. 12mo.

64. 'H KAINH AIAOHKH. Griesbach's Text, with the various readings of Mill and Scholz. London, 1837, small 8vo. "This title-page, brief as it is, describes the work very well. It gives the reader, in a portable form, in short, the readings of three well-known texts of the New Testament. In addition to this, Griesbach's probable readings are given in foot-notes; and there is an useful and compendious account of the various editions of the New Testament prefixed, together with a harmony," presenting some features of difference from other arrangements, "chronological and other useful tables, together with parallel passages given in the margin." Brief prefaces are prefixed to each book; and, for the convenience of those who may use this edition for theological purposes, a body of parallel references is given in the margin; and the facility of comparison is much increased by observing a distinct notation for parallels of single passages or ideas, and for those furnishing a detailed narrative of the same events. Great care has been taken to admit only such as are really, and not merely verbally, parallel passages. "The work is well and clearly printed, and has two engravings, a coloured fac-simile specimen of the Cotton manuscript" of the four Gospels, " and of a manuscript of the thirteenth century in the cursive" or ordinary Greek character." (British Magazine, February, 1838, vol. xiii. p. 179.)

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SION.

Version of the Bible which are known to be extant. They are In this edition are comprised all the fragments of the Gothic accurately printed from the best MSS. and critical editions, the va rious readings of which are exhibited in the notes. The first volume contains all the fragments of the New Testament, to which are prefixed learned prolegomena, discussing the history and critical value of the Gothic Version, and the various MSS. of it which are preserved in different libraries. The second volume was announced as being in a forward state of preparation, while these supplementary pages were passing through the press.

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5. Libri Psalmorum Versio antiqua Latina cum Paraphrasi Anglo-Saxonicâ, partim solutâ oratione, partim metricâ, composita, nunc primum e Cod. MS. Bibl. Regia Parisiensis desumpta. Edidit Benjamin THORPE. Oxonii, e Typographeo Academico, 1835. 8vo.

This work contains the prophecies of Jeremiah and Ezekiel. 4. Daniel, secundum editionem LXX Interpretum, ex Tetraplis desumptum. Ex codice Syro-Estranghelo Bibliotheca Ambrosianæ Syriacè edidit, Latine vertit, præfatione notisque illustravit, Carolus BUGATUS. Mediolani, 1788. 4to.

5. Cure Hexaplares in Jobum, e Codice Syriaco-Hexaplari Ambrosio-Mediolanensi. Scripsit Henricus MIDDELDORFF. Vratislaviæ, 1817. 4to.

6. Psalmi, secundum editionem LXX Interpretum, quos ex codice Syro-Estranghelo Bibliothecæ Ambrosianæ Syriacè imprimendos curavit, Latine vertit, notisque criticis illustravit, Carolus BUGATUS. Mediolani, 1820. 4to.

7. Codex Syriaco-Hexaplaris Liber Quartus Regum, è codice Parisiensi Isaias, duodecim Prophetæ Minores, Proverbia, Jobus, Canticum Canticorum, Threni, Ecclesiastes, e Codice Mediolanensi. Edidit et commentariis illustravit Henricus MIDDELDORFF. Berolini, 1835. 2 tomis, 4to.

The first part or volume of this most valuable work contains the Syriac Text; the second, the critical commentaries of the learned editor. For a critical account of Dr. Middeldorpf's work, see the Journal des Savans, Juillet, 1837, pp. 422-427.

liam TYNDALE. Reprinted verbatim: with a Memoir of his Life and Writings, by George Offor. Together with the Proceedings and Correspondence of Henry VIII., Sir T. More, and Lord

Cromwell. London, MDCCCXXXVI. 8vo. .

Christ. By William TYNDALE, the Martyr. The original Edi(3.) The New Testament of our Lord and Saviour Jesus with a Memoir of his Life and Writings. To which are annexed tion, 1526, being the first vernacular Translation from the Greek; the essential variations of Coverdale's, Thomas Matthew's, the Genevan, and the Bishops' Bibles, as marginal readings. By J P. Dabney. Andover and New York, 1837. 8vo.

The LONDON reprint of the first edition of Tyndale's version of the New Testament, published in 1836, is very neatly executed, and is an exact reprint of an unique and perfect copy in the possession of the Trustees of the Baptist Academy or College at Bristol, except that the Roman letter has been employed, with a view to render it more generally useful. The woodcuts and ornamental letters have been carefully copied from the original volume. An served in the library belonging to the Dean and Chapter of Saint imperfect copy of Tyndale's version of the New Testament is prePaul's.

The Anglo-American edition is edited with much industry and taste by the Rev. J. P. Dabney. It contains, first, a reprint of the London edition just noticed; secondly, the essential variations of Coverdale's, Matthew's, Cranmer's, the Genevan and Bishops' Bibles, as marginal readings, thus presenting a complete variorum edition of the vernacular versions; and, thirdly, a preface, and an interesting memoir of the martyr Tyndale, re-cast from the memoir compiled by the London editor, a list of Tyndale's Writings, an account of the early vernacular versions, select collations of the first and second editions of Tyndale, and a tabular list of the more common distinctive expressions used by him. (Biblical Repository vol. x. p. 496.)