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Excerpt from A Select Glossary of Bible Words: Also a Glossary of Important Words and Phrases in the Prayer Book; With References to the Text, and Illustrative Passages From English Classical Authors, Containing Obsolete Expressions (Especially in Psalms)
A few words will explain how these two little Glossaries came to be written, and how it is that they now appear together and in their present form. About seven years ago I prepared for the Queen's Printers a small Glossary of the Important Words in the Book of Common Prayer, as an addition to their Teacher's Prayer Book, edited by Bishop Barry. This Glossary, with considerable corrections and many additions, forms the second part of this book.
The Bible Glossary, an entirely new work and written on quite a new plan, was intended for the Queen's Printers' Teacher's Bible. It was found, however, that in some respects it went beyond the ordinary requirements of teachers, and that it exceeded the space which could conveniently be allotted to it. It was therefore determined to print a condensed form of this Glossary for the Teacher's Bible, and to publish what I had prepared without abridgment separately. It was afterwards thought that it might be useful, as well to the theological as to the philological student, to print with the Bible Glossary a revised edition of the Glossary which had appeared in the Teacher's Prayer Book. It is hoped that the plan of citing passages from some of the older English versions, with the purpose of showing the antiquity of many of our most familiar and most beautiful Biblical expressions, may commend itself both to the Biblical student and to the student of the history of the English language.
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