AN INTRODUCTION TO THE CRITICAL STUDY AND KNOWLEDGE OF THE HOLY SCRIPTURES. BY THE REV. THOMAS HARTWELL HORNE, B.D. OF ST. JOHN'S COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE. Edited by THE REV. THOMAS HARTWELL HORNE, B.D. (THE AUTHOR) THE REV. JOHN AYRE, M.A. OF GONVILLE AND CAIUS COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE; AND SAMUEL PRIDEAUX TREGELLES, LL.D. AUTHOR OF "REMARKS ON THE PRINTED text of the GREEK NEW TESTAMENT," Eto. ILLUSTRATED WITH MAPS AND FACSIMILES OF BIBLICAL MANUSCRIPTS. FOURTEENTH EDITION. IN FOUR VOLUMES-VOL IL LONDON: LONGMANS, GREEN, AND CO. 1877. PREFACE. THIS Volume consists of three parts—the Criticism of the Old Testament, the Principles of Biblical Interpretation, and an Introduction to the several Books of the Old Testament and the Apocrypha. It is compiled from the original second volume of Mr. Horne's work, omitting the criticism of the New Testament, and from the former half of the fourth volume. I have been careful to remember that I was employed to edit an old work, not to compose a new one. It was my task to re-arrange and condense Mr. Horne's matter, and to make such additions as might correct any erroneous statement, and supply information which later researches of the learned have given to the world. I have endeavoured to bring the whole of the volume into consistency, but I have not made alterations in all cases in which, had I been composing afresh, I might have used somewhat different language. It would not have been just to Mr. Horne to suppress every opinion of his which was not exactly coincident with my own. Thus his view of the formula iva λnpw is retained, pp. 191, 192., though it is scarcely so strong as mine in p. 198. But I am bound to say that I believe we do not vary in any material degree, and that the alterations, modifications, and corrections have been made with Mr. Horne's full knowledge and kind acquiescence; the sheets as they passed through the press having been examined by him. A limit of size was very properly prescribed to me. I have somewhat overstepped it; but it is manifest that a complete |