The Biblical Review and Congregational Magazine Volume 1 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1846 Excerpt: ... XII. CRITICAL NOTICES. Ocr readers arc, of course, acquainted with the general purpose of this part of a periodical work; we have, therefore, only to add one or two observations. We make no professions as to the spirit in which this department of our labours will be pursued, since we could only declare our intention to do that which every one in our place ought to do; and we would rather earn such a character by performance than by profession. It will be our effort to keep pace with the current literature of the day, and to discharge the office rather of a guide than of a censor. The latter duty must not be neglected, but we hope to perform it in subordination to the former. Without shrinking from telling our readers what we think of books, we wish to do them the better service of telling them what the books are, their purpose, their contents, their spirit, their uses. Our friends will then be in a condition to improve, or to decline, the acquaintance of the authors we may introduce to them, as may seem fit to themselves. Without attempting a complete classification, we shall endeavour to make, as far as possible, a natural arrangement of the books included in this department of our Journal. We will first notice works on Biblical and Theological Science. I. Novum Testamentum Greece. Textum ad ftdem antiquorum Testium recensuit, brevem apparatum criticum una cum variis certionibus Elzeviviorum, Knappii, Scholzii, Laehmanni subjunxit, argumenta et locos parallelos indicavit, commentationem isagogicam notatis propriis Uctionibus, tdd. Stephanica tertue atque Milliarus Mathceiarue, Griesbachiance pramiiit A. F. C. Tischendorf. Lipsiffi, 1841. 12mo. We give this title at full length, as it will convey a better idea of the nature of this edition of the Greek Test...