THE HOLY BIBLE ACCORDING TO THE AUTHORIZED VERSION (A.D. 1611), WITH AN EXPLANATORY AND CRITICAL Commentary AND 3 Revision of the Translation, BY BISHOPS AND OTHER CLERGY OF THE ANGLICAN CHURCH. EDITED By F. C. COOK, M.A., CANON OF EXETER, IATE PREACHER AT LINCOLN'S INN, CHAPLAIN IN ORDINARY TO THE QUEEN. NEW TESTAMENT. VOL. IV. HEBREWS THE REVELATION OF ST JOHN. LONDON: JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET. 1881 [All Rights are reserved.] PREFACE. E' IGHTEEN years have now passed since this Commentary on the Holy Scriptures was undertaken. Its publication was commenced ten years ago, and the concluding volume is now presented to the public. Its conception was due to the late Lord Ossington, then Speaker of the House of Commons, and to that circumstance it owes its familiar title of "The Speaker's Commentary"-a title, however, which derives a further justification from the warm interest he maintained in the progress of the work, and the constant encouragement it received from him. The course of thought during those eighteen years has abundantly shown the opportuneness of such an undertaking, and, it may be hoped, has vindicated the general wisdom of the plan on which it was designed. In consequence of ever-accumulating discoveries, antiquarian and philological, public attention has been concentrated to an unprecedented extent upon the Holy Scriptures, upon the origin and history of their several books, upon their text and their interpretation, and this attention has, for the great mass of English readers, given a new interest and importance to the Authorized Version, in which, by the use of nearly three centuries, those Scriptures have become enshrined for them. The first anxiety of the public at large was to know how the new discoveries in philology and history bore upon that venerated translation, what corrections of its text they rendered necessary, and what elucidations of its meaning they afforded. To meet this want was the simple and practical purpose with DEC 191914 321450 A which our a 2 (RECAP) |