LECTURES CHIEFLY EXPOSITORY ON ST. PAUL'S FIRST AND SECOND EPISTLES ΤΟ THE THESSALONIANS. With Notes and Illustrations. BY JOHN HUTCHISON, D.D., BONNINGTON, EDINBURGH. EDINBURGH: T. & T. CLARK, 38 GEORGE STREET. 1884. 1018. PREFACE. THIS Volume, like that which I have already published on Our Lord's Messages to the Seven Churches of Asia, is chiefly expository. In substance the Lectures have been used in the ordinary course of my ministry. They have, however, been remodelled so as to make them a continuous commentary. At the same time, I have purposely retained many passages of devotional and practical import. Indeed, I have been mindful throughout of Bengel's direction: "Te totum applica ad textum ; rem totam applica ad te." I am persuaded that the mingling, within due limits, of the homiletical with the expository is the most profitable way of studying Scripture. The volume is the product of study, carried on at intervals through several years. It has therefore been impossible for me to trace in all cases the hints received; but yet I have endeavoured to acknowledge all indebtedness to others. The growth of exegetical Literature is in itself an interesting study. Dr. Mark Pattison (Life of Isaac Casaubon, p. 515) has said: "The school commentaries of our day contain the result of four centuries of research; what one has overlooked another supplies." Much more may it be said of New Testament commentary that it is the result of all the |