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Excerpt from The First Epistle of Peter: Revised d104, With Introduction and Commentary
All those commentators on the Epistle from Whom the author had any reason to believe that help might be obtained have been carefully consulted. His obligations are specially great to Bengel, Wiesinger, and Professor Salmond of Aberdeen. From several of the less strictly critical expositions of the Epistle, also, he has in various ways and degrees received help, particularly from the classic work of Leighton, and from the Expository Lectures of Professor John Brown of Edinburgh, and Dr. John Lillie of Kingston, New York. In the discussion of passages susceptible of different interpretations, only views of the meaning which seemed to have at least a moderate degree of likelihood have'been dealt with in the Commentary, or indeed, as a rule, even mentioned, - the book being intended, not as a storehouse of curiosities or whimsical conceits, but as an aid to the practical study of Scripture. An endeavour has been made also to avoid loading the pages with needless lists of the names of scholars holding the various positions. Names have been mentioned only when they seemed to be in them selves to a certain extent arguments, or to afford something of interesting or helpful illustration. On questions con nected with the specialties of Hellenistic Greek, the New Testament Grammars of Winer and Alexander Buttmann are frequently referred to (the references being made to the English translations by Moulton and Thayer), occasionally also the excellent little work of Sheldon Green. For the grammar of classical Greek, Jelf and Donaldson have been used.
There are no formal Dissertations or Excursus. Several of the discussions, in particular those on the exegesis of chap.' iii. 19, 20, and chap. Iv. 6, are considerably detailed; but the arrangement of the book - in which the text is printed, not over the expository notes, but at the beginning - permitted these to be kept in their place in the Commentary. In the Table of Contents a reference is made to matters treated with special fulness.
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