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This translation is, upon the whole, faithfully executed, though that of the Old Testament, being a version of a version, can hardly afford much assistance to the biblical student. The translation of the New Testament is much improved in the punctuation, and also in the arrangement of the objections and replies that occasion such frequent transitions in St. Paul's Epistles. The notes which accompany 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 his 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.

34. Devotional Comments: being a Series of Scriptural Expositions, with a Prayer annexed to each subject. By Mrs. STEVENS. Knaresborough and London, 1823-31, 20 vols. 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 general introduction, containing disquisitions on the genuineness, authenticity, and inspiration of the Holy 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 remarks to each book: the parallel passages contained in the Rev. J. 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. BOOTHROYD, LL.D. Pontefract and London, 1818, 1821, 1823, 3 vois. 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 page 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 Michaelis'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.

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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 denomination. The valuable Commentaries of Henry and Scott have principally supplied the materials for the present publication. Their 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 extraets 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.

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Although many expositions of the Bible, of great and deserved celebrity, are happily extant in our language, a commentary sufficiently 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 desideratum. 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 modera 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 skeptics; for which portion of his work he was well qualified by his 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 some of the Assembly of Divines: to which are added some further and larger Observations on the whole book of Genesis, 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. 8vo.

A learned and valuable work, though now not often to be met with.

teuchi Commentarius: seu ultimorum Jacobi, reliquorum Bilha5. Johannis MARCKII in præcipuas quasdam partes Pentami, et novissimorum Mosis, 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 contracBat. 1713, 4to. tion" 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.

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 | Mosaic history of the creation, and 2. On the destruction of the and modern. By John MARCHANT. London, 1745, folio. seven nations of Canaan. London, 1748, 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. Gentle man of Kidderminster: it contains notes chiefly collected from modern expositors, of which "it cannot be said that they are emi nently 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. lxxix. 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.

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, with various readings, explanatory notes, and critical remarks. By Alexander GEDDES, LL.D. 4to. London, vol. i. 1792, vol. ii. 1797. Critical Remarks on the Hebrew Scriptures, 4to. London, 1800, vol. i. on the Pentateuch.

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.

This Exposition is compiled with considerable industry from the labours of the best interpreters ancient and modern. It was originally 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 By the Rev. S. CLAPtext, for the use of Families and Schools. HAM. London, 1818, 12mo.

"As a substitute for expensive commentaries on the Bible, and as the means of providing in many interesting respects for the instruction and edification of those persons who may not have leisure to procure more copious volumes, the present work will be acceptable. 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.)

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.

A very elaborate and curious work; it is not of common occur

1. Hora Mosaicæ; 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.

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This elaborate Treatise contains the substance of the eight Bampton Lectures delivered by Mr. Faber before the University of Oxford, and published in 1801. Those who have not the means or 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 learning; 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 1690, 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,

10. The Hebrew Text of the Parallel Prophecies of Jacob and Moses, relative to the Twelve Tribes, with a translation and notes, and the various lections of near forty MSS., &c. &c. By D. DURELL, D.D., Principal of Hertford College. Oxford, 1764,

4to.

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 Originall 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. London, 1608, folio.

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. the Rev. Jonathan SMEDLEY, Dean of Clogher. 1728, folio.

By

This Specimen contains only the first chapter of Genesis; the work which it announces never having been published. The

28. Brief Observations upon some of the first Chapters of the Book of Genesis. London, 1827, 8vo.

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 judgment 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.

15. A New English Translation, from the original Hebrew, of the First Three Chapters of Genesis, with marginal illustrations, and notes, critical and explanatory. By Abraham Daw

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.

17. The Sixth, and Eleven following Chapters of Genesis, translated from the original Hebrew, &c. &c. By Abraham DAWSON, M.A. London, 1786, 4to.

For an account of these publications see the Monthly Review, Old Series, vol. xxix. pp. 293-299.; vol. xlvii. pp. 1-7.; and vol. Ixxvii. pp. 140—147.

18. Annotations upon Genesis, with Observations, doctrinal and practical. By the Rev. Thomas HARWOOD. London, 1789,

8vo.

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.

29. Libri Geneseos secundum Fontes rite dignoscendos Adumbratio nova. In usum Prælectionum scripsit Dr. C. P. W. GRAMBERG, Lipsia, 1828, 8vo.

This writer adopts the hypothesis of some modern German critics, that the book of Genesis is a compilation by a third person from two 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.

30. T. P. C. KAISER Commentarius in priora Geneseos CaNorimberga, 1829, 8vo. pita, quatenus universæ populorum mythologiæ 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 pre-exhibits very considerable research. The religious improvemen's work is prefixed a view of the cosmogony of the ancients, which 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 Alexander MAXWELL." London, 1822, 8vo. Dissertation on the Character and Writings of Moses. By

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. Leovardiæ, 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 DIмOCK. Gloucester, 1804, 4to.

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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 readprejudices that might be infused into the minds of the common he says, the English vulgar translation, in order to prevent any 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.)

22. A Dissertation on the Fall of Man; in which the Literalings of the Samaritan copy would permit it) he has adopted," Sense of the Mosaic Account of that Event is asserted and vindicated. By the Rev. George HOLDEN, M.A. London, 1823,

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 Obla

tions of Cain and Abel. By Benjamin KENNICOTT, M.A.

Oxford, 1747, 8vo.

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JOSHUA AND THE OTHER HISTORICAL BOOKS.

34. Josu Imperatoris Historia, illustrata atque explicata ab 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 readings of Joshua, as given by Origen. written in the year 606, and is the only one that preserves the

35. C. H. van HERWERDEN Disputatio de Libro Josum, sive de diversis ex quibus constat Josua Liber monumentis, deque ætate quà eorum vixerunt auctores. Groninge, 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. 1735-1751, 3 vols. 4to. Hale,

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 Proverbs

the Lamentations of Jeremiah, and the Prophet Daniel; and the notes on the second book of Chronicles, Ruth, Esther, Nehemiah, and Ecclesiastes, were written by Rambach.

39. J. D. DAHLER, de Librorum PARALIPOMENORUM auctoritate atque fide historica. 8vo. Lipsiæ, 1819.

54. Liber Jobi in versiculos metrice divisus, cum Versione Latinâ Alberti Schultens, Notisque ex ejus Commentario excerpsit atque adnotationes suas adjecit Ricardus GREY. Londini, 1742.

A learned and valuable work. Mr. [afterwards Bp.] Warburton 40. GREY (Richard) The Last Words of David, divided ac- having attacked Dr. Grey, the latter defended himself in “An cording to the Metre, with Notes critical and explanatory. Lon-Answer to Mr. Warburton's Remarks so far as they concern the Preface to a late edition of the Book of Job." London, 1744, 8vo. don, 1749, 4to. 55. Some Observations tending to illustrate the Book of Job, and particularly Job xix. 25. By the Rev. Charles COSTARD, M.A. London, 1747, 8vo.

41. Commentatio ad Elegiam Davidis in Saulum et Jonathanem. Auctore Antonio Henrico PAREAU. Groninge, 1829, 4to.

This dissertation consists of three parts. In the first is given a critical examination of David's exquisitely beautiful elegy on the 56. A Dissertation on the Book of Job, its Nature, Argument, death of Saul and of Jonathan; in the second we have an exegeti-Age, and Author. Wherein the celebrated Text, ch. xix. 25. is cal interpretation of it; and the third contains an ingenious com

parison of it with the other elegiac productions of the Hebrew occasionally considered and discussed. To which is prefixed an Sacred Poets, and with those of other Oriental poets and of the Introductory Discourse, with a short Analysis of the whole Book. Greeks. The result of this collation establishes more satisfactorily Ry John GARNETT, B.D. [afterwards Bishop of Clogher]. Lonthe infinite superiority of David's elegy over every similar compo-don, 1751. Second edition, 1754, 4to. sition, sacred or profane.

57. Observationes Miscellaneæ in Librum Jobi. [Auctore 42. A. G. F. SCHIRMER, Observationes Exegetico-Critica in D. R. BOULLIER.] Amsterdami, 1758, 8vo. Librum ESDRE. Vratislaviæ, 1820, 4to.

ON THE POETICAL BOOKS GENERALLY.

43. The Annotations of MICHAELIS above noticed, in No. 38. 44. A Paraphrase on the Books of Job, Psalms, Proverbs, and Ecclesiastes, with notes, critical, historical, and practical. By Lawrence HOLDEN, 1764, 4 vols. 8vo.

"To what class of readers this performance will be useful or agreeable, we really know not; but this we verily believe, that persons of taste, learning, or judgment, will find very little in it to engage their attention.' (Monthly Review, O. S. vol. xxxi. p. 73.) The public opinion seems to have been in unison with that of the Monthly Reviewers; the book has never been popular, and it is to be purchased at a very low price; on which account, this notice is inserted as a caution to the student who may be inexperienced in the real value of books.

45. Critical Remarks on the Books of Job, Proverbs, Psalms, Ecclesiastes, and Canticles. By D. DURELL, D.D. London, 1772, 4to.

See an analysis of this work in the Monthly Review, O. S. vol. xlvii. pp. 119-129.

46. Joh. Chr. DOEDERLEIN Scholia in Libros Veteris Testamenti Poeticos. Hala, 1779, 4to.

47. The Poetical Parts of the Old Testament newly translated from the Hebrew, with notes critical and explanatory. William GREEN, M.A. London, 1781, 4to.

By

For an account of this work, see the Monthly Review, O. S. vol. lxviii. pp. 1-8.

JOB.

This work is an attack on the labours of Professor Schultens, whose system of explaining Hebrew words and idioms, chiefly by the aid of the Arabic, is here severely criticised.

of the Book of Job. By Walter HODGES, D.D. London, 1750, 58. Elihu, or an Inquiry into the principal Scope and Design 4to.

This work is written on the Hutchinsonian system, and is designed to show that Elihu was no other personage than the Son of God himself! See Monthly Review, (O. S.), vol. ii. pp. 219-225.

347-352.

59. A Commentary on the Book of Job, in which are inserted the Hebrew text and English translation, &c. By Leonard CHAPPELOW, B.D., Arabic Professor in the University of Cambridge. 1752, 2 vols. 4to.

See an account of this work in the Monthly Review (O. S.), vol. vii. pp. 197-205.

60. An Essay towards a New English Version of the Book of Job, from the original Hebrew, with a Commentary, and some account of his Life. By Edward HEATH, Esq. London, 1756, 4to.

"It is but justice to this new Essay upon Job, to observe, that the use; and that, in the notes, there are many observations entirely translation is in many places very different from that in common new-all of them ingenious, and many of them true." (Month. Rev. O. S. vol. xiv. p. 156.)

61. A Critical Dissertation on the Book of Job. By Charles PETERS, A.M. Second edition. London, 1757, 8vo.

The first edition of this work appeared in 1751. (See Month. Rev. O. S. vol. iv. pp. 401-409.) În it, the author particularly considers Bishop Warburton's account of the Book of Job, vindicates its antiquity, and shows that the ancient Jews did believe in a future state.

48. Friderici SPANHEMII FILII Historia Jobi. Geneva, 1670, 4to. Also in the second volume of the folio edition of his col-original Hebrew; with remarks, historical, critical, and explana62. The Book of Job in English verse, translated from the lective works published at Leyden, in 1701-3, in 3 volumes, folio.

49. A Translation of the Book of Job, with annotations, arguments, and dialogues on each chapter, is given in the second tome or part of the celebrated Hugh BROUGHTON's works, pp. 246-294.

50. An Exposition, with Practical Observations on the Book of Job. By Joseph CARYL. London, 1676, 2 vols. folio.

This work was originally published in six volumes, 4to. at different times. I have never had an opportunity of examining it; but Wachi eulogizes it in very high terms. (Biblioth. Theol. vol. iv. p. 487.) It is now very little read or even consulted, few readers being able to wade through two large folio volumes.

51. Francisci VAVASSORIS Jobus, brevi Commentario et Metaphrasi Poeticâ illustratus. Paris, 1679, 8vo.

52. Dissertationes in Librum Jobi. Autore Samuele WESLEY. Londini, 1736, folio.

This volume contains fifty-three elaborate Dissertations, which embrace almost every critical question or difficulty that is to be found in the book of Job. The learned author collated all the copies which he could procure, both of the original Hebrew, and also of the Greek and other versions.

53. Liber Jobi, cum nova versione et commentario perpetuo. Edidit Albertus SCHULTENS. Lug. Bat. 1737, 2 vols. 4to. Of this learned and elaborate work, an abridgment was printed at Halle, in 1773, by Prof. Vogel, entitled Alberti Schultensii Commentarius in Jobum, in compendium redactus, cum observationibus criticis et exegeticis. 2 vols. 8vo.

tory. By T. SCOTT. London, 1773, 8vo.

A close and exact translation, as far as a metrical version can be. The notes display much research and good sense.

63. An Improved Version attempted of the Book of Job, with a preliminary Dissertation and Notes, critical, historical, and explanatory By Charles GARDEN, D.D. London, 1796, 8vo. A book of great pretensions, but indifferent execution. See an analysis of it in the British Critic, O. S. vol. ix. pp. 168-175.

64. Jo. Jac. REISKE Conjectura in Jobum et Proverbia, cum ejusdem oratione de studio Arabicæ Linguæ. Lipsiæ, 1779, 8vo. 65. Jobi antiquissimi Carminis Hebraici Natura atque Virtutes. Scripsit Carolus David ILGEN. Lipsiæ, 1789, 8vo.

66. Animadversiones in Librum Job; scripsit Jac. Christ. Rud. ECKERMANN. Lubecæ, 1779, 8vo.

67. Joannis Henrici PAREAU Commentatio de Immortalitatis ac Vitæ Futuræ Notitiis ab antiquissimo Jobi scriptore in suos usus adhibitis. Accedit Sermo Jobi de Sapientia mortuis magis cognita quam vivis; sive Jobeidis caput XXVIII. philologicè et criticè illustratum. Daventriæ, 1807, 8vo.

68. The Book of Job, metrically arranged according to the Masora, and newly translated into English; with Notes, critical and explanatory, accompanied, on the opposite page, by the authorized English version. By the Right Rev. Joseph STOCK, D.D., Bishop of Killala. Bath, 1805, 4to.

This translation was executed in the short space of six weeks. Many of the author's opinions and conjectural emendations were

severely criticised by Archbishop Magee, who has shown that his | Land of Uz. By the Rev. Samuel LrSONS, B.A. Oxford and objections to the antiquity of the Book of Job were unfounded. London, 1832, 8vo. (On the Atonement, vol. i. pp. 354-422.)

69. The Book of Job, translated from the Hebrew, by the late Miss Elizabeth SMITH: with a preface and annotations, by the Rev. T. Randolph, D.D. London, 1810, 8vo.

This was a posthumous publication of an amiable and accomplished young lady.-"Considering the age of Miss Smith, and the circumstances under which she studied the Hebrew language, her translation of the Book of Job may certainly be deemed a very surprising work; and had it not been characterized in the extravagant terms of commendation with which Dr. Randolph has introduced it to the public, it might have borne generally a more favourable report than it will gain from that scrutiny which his eulogium seems to challenge. It was evidently left in an unfinished state; and the editor felt himself bound in honour not to make the smallest correction. We have it, therefore, just as Miss Smith wrote it; and we receive it as a monument of her industry and genius, though we cannot regard it as having effected much towards the elucidation of the Book of Job." (Month. Rev. N. S. vol. xv. p. 152.) See also a similar critique in the Eclectic Review, vol. vi. part ii. p. 780.

70. The Book of Job, literally translated from the original Hebrew, and restored to its natural arrangement, with Notes, critical and illustrative, and an Introductory Dissertation on its scene, scope, language, author, and object. By John Mason GOOD, M.D. F.R.S. &c. London, 1812, 8vo.

"On the whole, we regard this work as a valuable accession to our stock of sacred literature; and we can recommend it with confidence to the biblical student, as containing a great mass of useful information and valuable criticism." (Christian Observer, vol. xii. p. 306.)

71. Henr. MIDDELDORFF Cure Hexaplares in Jobum, e Codice Syriaco-Hexaplari Ambrosiano Mediolanensi. 4to. Vratislaviæ, 1817.

72. Le Livre de Job, nouvellement traduit d'après le texte original non ponctué et les anciennes versions, notamment l'Arabe et la Syriaque; par J. Louis BRIDEL, Professeur de Langues Orientales, et de l'interprétation des Livres Saints, dans l'Académie de Lausanne. Paris, 1818, 8vo.

73. The Book of Job, translated from the Hebrew by George

HUNT. Bath, 1825, 8vo.

74. Le Livre de Job, traduit en Vers Français, avec le Texte de la Vulgate en regard; suivi de Notes Explicatives, ainsi que de Variantes, tirées de plus célèbres Interprètes de la Bible. Par B. M. F. LEVAVASSEUR. Paris, 1826, 8vo.

75. A New Translation and Exposition of the very ancient Book of Job; with Notes, explanatory and philological. By the Rev. John FRY, B.A. London, 1827, 8vo.

76. An Amended Version of the Book of Job, with an Introduction, and Notes, chiefly explanatory. By George R. NOYES. Cambridge [North America], 1827, 8vo.

in Jobi locum celeberrimum, cap. XIX. 25—27. de Guele. Jena, 79. J. G. STICKEL Commentatio Historico-philologico-critica

1832, 8vo

PSALMS.

80. GREGORII BARHEBREI Scholia in Psalmum quintum et decimum octavum, e Codicis Bibliothecæ Bodleianæ Apographo Bernsteniano edidit, interpretatus est, et annotationibus prolegomenisque instruxit Joannes Theophilus Guilielmus Henricus RHODE. Vratislaviæ, 1832, 8vo.

81. Annotations upon the Book of Psalms. By Henry AinsWORTH. See p. 115, No. 3. supra.

82. Marci MARINI, Brixiani, Annotationes Literales in Psalmos, Novâ Versione ab ipsomet illustratos. Edita operâ et studio Joannis Aloysii Mingarelli. Bononiæ, 1748–50, 2 vols. 4to.

A learned and useful work, the author of which died in 1594. To his profound knowledge of Hebrew literature the younger Buxtorf, Le Long, Turretini, and other eminent philologists of the seventeenth century, have borne ample testimony. These Annotations are strictly literal; and to them is prefixed the original Hebrew text of the Psalms, together with the Vulgate Latin version, and a new translation of them by Marco Marini.

83. A brief Explication of the Psalms. By David DICKSON, Professor of Divinity in the College of Edinburgh. London, 1653-54, 3 vols. 8vo. Glasgow and London, 1834, 12 vols. 12mo.

This work was very popular during the latter part of the seventeenth century. The Glasgow reprint is very neatly executed, and is enlarged with a memoir of the author, by the Rev. Robert Wodrow.

84. Paraphrases and Annotations upon the Book of Psalms By Henry HAMMOND, D.D. London, 1659, folio.

Dr. Hammond's notes are exceedingly valuable, and contain many learned observations that had escaped preceding commentstors on the Book of Psalms. They are also to be found in the fourth volume of his collected works, published at London in 1684, in folio. of the whole Book of Psalms, cast into such a method that the 85. David's Harp Strung and Tuned: or an Easie Analysis Summe of every Psalm may be quickly collected and remembered. With a Devout Meditation or Prayer at the end of every Psalm, framed for the most part out of the words of the Psalm, and fitted for several Occasions. By William [NICHOLSON], Bishop of Gloucester. London, 1662, folio.

with great minuteness; it is wholly practical and explanatory. Ia In this work every verse of the Psalms is divided and subdivided his explications, the Rt. Rev. Author steers between the two extremes of literal and spiritual interpretation. The prayers at the end of each Psalm are expressed nearly in the very words of the inspired authors. Though the quaint and scholastic mode which obtains in this work is somewhat repulsive, it may nevertheless be "Mr. Noyes, in the present translation, has aimed at combining consulted with advantage by those who cannot command other the fruits of the labours of the learned in sacred literature, as far and more critical commentaries; especially as the book may be as they relate or can be applied to the book of Job. He has pre-occasionally met with at a low price. Dr. A. Clarke has inserted sented the public with a version of this highly interesting portion Bishop Nicholson's Analysis in his commentary on the Psalms, of Scripture, the basis of which is laid in the former received" omitting his prayers. [our authorized]" translation; but into which have been incorporated, with a judicious selection, the most important suggestions of the critics, lexicographers, and divines, which have been made since the received version of the Bible was promulgated...... To the general ability, fidelity, good sense, and good taste, with which he has executed his task, we bear willing and ample testimony." (United States' Review and Literary Gazette, vol. ii. p. 343.)

77. The Book of Job, in the words of the Authorized Version, arranged and pointed in general conformity with the Masoretical Text. Dublin, 1828, 8vo.

The principal feature in this work is the adoption of what the editor calls a half-pause in each line of every verse, which he has marked by a dot, placed, like the Greek colon, at the top of the

last letter of the word to which it is affixed. In the determination of this pause he has been directed by the Masoretical punctuation, which not only divides the respective verses into couplets or triplets, but every line into two distinct parts. The editor has not followed Bishop Lowth and others in printing each line separately, but has retained the usual form of the verse, as in the authorized version, and as established by the Masorets. The words also of the English translation have been retained throughout, except where a slight alteration was rendered necessary by the change in their collocation, in which the order of the Hebrew is followed

as closely as the difference of language will permit. By this means the majestic simplicity of the original is materially preserved; and, in many instances, the sense of a passage more accurately developed." (Christian Remembrancer, vol. x. pp. 492, 493.)

78. Conjectures concerning the Identity of the Patriarch Job, his Family, the Time when he lived, and the Locality of the

86. Martini GEIERI Commentarius in Psalmos Davidis, fontium Ebræorum mentem, et vim vocum phrasiumque sacrarum sensumque adeo genuinum, adductis copiose locis parallelis, collatis etiam (ubi opus) versionibus interpretumque sententiis, et enodatis difficultatibus, cum curà eruens. Lipsiæ, 1681; 1697; Amstelodami, 1685; Dresdæ, 1709, folio.

Geier was an eminently learned divine of the Lutheran church, and Professor of Hebrew at Leipsic, where the substance of his commentary on the Psalms was delivered in lectures to the students. It is very little known in this country; but on the continent it is very highly esteemed for its erudition and piety. (Walchius, vol. IV. p. 495.)

87. The Book of Psalms, with the argument of each psalm, and a preface giving some general rules for the interpretation of this sacred book. By a Divine of the Church of England. [Peter ALLIX, D.D.] London, 1701, 8vo.

88. An Essay towards a New English Version of the Book of Psalms, from the original Hebrew. By Z. MUDGE. London, 1744, 4to.

The learned author of this work, which is now of rare occurrence, professes to give a plain literal version, without offering to deviate into any affected ornaments. The transitions of persons and scenes. which are frequent in the Psalms, are carefully indicated; and the numerous, though brief, notes are designed partly to point out the critical meaning of each psalm, and partly to account to the reader for the changes made in the version. Some of these notes, however, are more ingenious than solid. How highly Mr

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