A Practical and Explanatory Commentary on the Holy Bible: Taking the whole in one point of view, from the creation to the end of the world.

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An unusually scarce biblical commentary: ESTC lists just the British Library and the Founders Library at Lampeter holding copies, while Worldcat adds two Scottish locations (Edinburgh & National Library) and three American (Kings College CA, Iliff, and Duke). One listing gives a pagination omitting the title but including an errata leaf at the end; the others include the title but omit the errata.The author (whose forename appears to be unknown) seeks to elucidate how the Scriptures foretell the coming of Christ, so that the whole Bible demonstrates a unity of design. The English Review concluded that 'the piety and good intentions of the author are abundantly conspicuous', but the Critical Review found it lacking in 'critical accuracy'; one of Yonge's more outlandish claims is that after the Tower of Babel God divided the earth, and 'the inhabitants the one from the other. This clears up the difficulty of the first peopling of America, that part of land that was torn off from the main land' (p. 17).