Commentary on the Holy Scriptures, Vol. 10: Critical, Doctrinal, and Homiletical, With Special Reference to Ministers and Students (Classic Reprint) - Tapa blanda

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The present volume corresponds to Parts XII. and XIII. of the Old Testament Division of Dr. Langes BiUework, and contains the Solomonic writings, Proveebs, Ecclesiastes, and the Song Of Solomon. They form an important part of the Old Testament, and give us the poetry and practical philosophy of the wisest of men, with none of his follies and sins, which were over ruled in his writings for the advancement of wisdom and virtue. The English translation, with additions and improvements, was intrusted to three eminent Oriental and Biblical Scholars, too well known in America to need an introduction. They have done their work well, and have added very materially to the value as well as the size of the original. In this volume the text of the Authorized Version is superseded by a new metrical version in accordance with the laws of Hebrew poetry. The same will be the case in the other poetical books of the 0. T.To retain the prose version of King James revisers, and to insert the corrections in brackets, would conceal to the reader the beauties of the original as a work of art. In Ecclesiastes, Prof. Taylbe Lewis has thought best to retain the common version for the Com mentary, and to give his metrical version as a separate appendix. Some remarks will introduce the author of this part of the Biblework, and explain the relation which the several parts of the American edition sustain to the German. De. Zockler. The author of this Commentary on the Solomonic writings belongs to the younger generation of German divines, and appears now for the first time in an English dress; none of his previous writings having been translated. Dr. Otto Zockler was born at Griinberg, in the Grand Duchy of Hesse, May 27, 1833. After a thorough training in classical and oriental philology, philosophy and theology, he entered the career of an academic teacher of theology, A.D., 1856, as privatim docens, in the University of Giessen; he advanced to the position of professor exlraordinarius in 1863, and in the autumn of 1866 he was called by the Prussian Government as professor ordinarius to the University of Greifswald, in Pomerania, where he still labors with fidelity and success. He is a very able and learned divine, a fertile author, a modest, retiring and amiable gentleman, of unblemished character, a little hard of hearing, and hence the more devoted to the cultivation of the inner life by study and contemplation, yet wide awake to all the living questions of the age. His learning covers a large ground, especially Exegesis of the 0. and N.Testaments, Church History, Apologetics, Natural Sciences. His biography of St. Jerome, with which I am quite familiar, is one of the best historical monographs. He is now engaged on Daniel for Langes BiUework. The following is a chronological list of Dr. Zockler Swritings to the present date: De vi ac notione vocabuli kiq inN. To. diss. inauguralis. Giss., 1857. Theologia Naturalis. Enlwurf einer systematischen Naturtheologie vom offenbarungsglaubige?i Standpuncte aus. Bd. I. Frankft. aM., 1860. Kritische Geschichte Der Askese (Critical History of Asceticism; ein Beitrag zur Geschichte christlicher Sitte und Cultur. Frankft. 1862.Hieronymus ; sein Leben u.Wirken aus seinen Schrifien dargestellt. Gotha, 1864.

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