specimens of criticism are found in his notes. Yet he has not entered deeply into the spirit of the original, Ugg Classic Tall Boots or developed with uniform success the meaning of the inspired writers. Many of the most difficult portions he has superficially examined or wholly mistaken.(4.) M. Poole ("Annotations" on the whole Bible, Lond. 2 vols. fol. 1700 and before, best ed. Lond. 1840, 3 vols. 8vo).—Poole's annotations on the Holy Bible contain several valuable, judicious remarks. But their , defects are numerous. The pious author bad only a partial acquaintance with the original. He was remarkable neither for profundity nor acuteness. Yet he bad piety and good sense, amazing industry, and an extensive Ugg Tassel Boots knowledge of the older commentators.Poli "Synopsis Criticorum" (fol. 4 vols, in 5, Lond. 1669-76, and several eds. since; best ed. by Leusden, Ultr. 1684).—In this large work, the annotations of a great number of the older commentators are collected and condensed, many of them from the still more extensive collection known as the Criaci Sacri (q. v.), edited by Bp. Pearson and others (2d edit, with two supplemental vols. Frcft. a. M. 1696-1701,9 vols. fol.). But they are seldom sifted and criticised, so that the reader is left to choose among them for himself.(6.) H. Grotius ("Annotationes" on all the Bible and Ugg Classic Mini Boots Apocr. in his Opp* also ed. Moody, Lond. 1727, 2 vols. 4to).—This very learned writer investigates the literal sense of the Scriptures with great diligence and

step with one book at a time; not hastily run over the entire volume, and produce the crude and first-caught materials that he has gathered suddenly and by onesided investigations. Hence those annotations are almost always the best where a writer has confined himself to a single book or epistle, Ugg Bailey Button Triplet and has perhaps made it his life-long study, looking at it from every possible point of view, and verifying his conclusions by repeated comparisons and researches. Commentaries "written to order" have almost invariably been worthless. See American Biblical Repository, January, 1833, art. iv.IV. We shall briefly review the principal works of this class on the Bible (adopting substantially the criticisms on the older commentaries found in Kitto's Cyclopaedia, s. v.).1. Such as are most accessible by having been written in English or Latin, or translated into one of those languages. (See a Ugg Classic Short Boots select list of this kind, with criticisms, in the Supplem. to Jenks's Comprehensive Commentary?) (1.) J. Calvin (" Commentarii," etc. in his Opp., translated, Edinb. 1845-56, 62 vols. 8vo).—In all the higher qualifications of a commentator Calvin is preeminent. His knowledge of the original languages was not so great as that of many later expositors,

supererogation to collect a multitude of annotations from various sources, most of which the industrious Uggs Clearance collector knows to be improbable or erroneous. It is folly to adduce and combat interpretations from which the common sense and simple piety of the unsophisticated reader turn away with instinctive aversion. If plausible views be stated, they should be thoroughly analyzed. But in all cases the right meaning ought to be a prominent thing with the commentator, and prominently should it be manifested, surrounded, if possible, with those hues which Heaven itself has given it, and qualified by such circumstances as the Bible may furnish.3. Another defect consists in dwelling on the easy and evading the difficult postages. This feature belongs especially to those English commentaries which are most current among us. By a series of appended remarks, plain statements are expanded; but wherever there is a real perplexity, it is glozed over with marvellous superficiality. It may be that much is said about it, but yet there is no penetration beneath the surface; and when the reader asks himself what is the true Discount Ugg Boots import, he finds himself in the same state of ignorance as when be first took np the Commentary in question. Pious reflections and multitudinous inferences enter largely into our popular books of exposition. They

taught Geographical, chronological, and historical remarks should solely subserve the educement or < of Jehovah's will.III. The prominent defects of existing i ries.—1. Prolixity. This defect chiefly applies to the Ugg Roxy Tall Boots older works; hence their great size. It is not unI common to meet with a large folio volume of commentary on a book of Scripture of moderate extent Thus Byfield, on the Epistle to the Colossians, fills a folio volume; and Venema, on Jeremiah, two quartos, Peter Martyr's "most learned and fruitful commentaries upon the Epistle to the Romans" occupy a folio, and his "commentaries upon the book of Judges" another tome of the same extent. But Venema on the Psalms, and Caryl on Job, are still more extravagant, the former extending to no less than six volumes quarto, the latter to two goodly folios. It is almost superfluous to remark that such writers wander away, without confining themselves to Ugg Bailey Button Boots exposition. We do not deny that even their extraneous matter may be good and edifying to those who have the patience to wade through its labyrinths, but still it is not commentary. It is very easy to write, currente calama, any thing however remotely connected with a passage, or to note down the thoughts as they rise;

There are two kinds of commentary which we shall notice, viz. the critical and the popular. 1. The former contains grammatical and philological remarks, unfolds the general and special significations of words, Ugg Classic Cardy Boots points out idioms and peculiarities of the original languages, and always brings into view the Hebrew or Greek phraseology employed by the sacred writers. It dilates on the peculiarities and difficulties of construction which may present themselves, referring to various readings, and occasionally bringing into comparison the sentiments and diction of profane writers, where they resemble those of the Bible. In a word, it takes a wide range, while it states the processes which lead to results, and shrinks not from employing the technical language common to scholars. Extended dissertations are sometimes given, in which the language is made the direct subject of examination, and; the aid of lexicons and grammars called in to support or confirm a certain interpretation. 2. Popular commentary states in perspicuous and untechnical phraseology the sentiments of the holy writers, Ugg Roxy Short Boots usually witbout detailing the steps by which that meaning his been discovered. It leaves philological observations to those whose taste leads them to such studies. All scientific investigations are avoided. Its great object is to present, in an attractive form, the thoughts of the sacred authors, so that they may vividly imprest the mind and interest the heart. It avoids every thing that a reader unacquainted with Hebrew and Greek would not understand, and