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OF THE

BIBLIOTHECA SACRA

AND AMERICAN

BIBLICAL REPOSITORY,

1854.

THIS Periodical is edited by Prof. E. A. Park and Mr. S. H. Taylor, of Andover, Mass.; aided by Professors Robinson, Smith, Day, Allen, Stowe, Barrows, Phelps, Shedd, Brown, Putnam, and Drs. Davidson of England and Alexander of Scotland.

It will be the constant aim of the Editors and of the gentlemen who assist them, to furnish essays and discussions of sterling and permanent value, so that complete sets of the work will be regarded as an important accession to any library.

Articles of abiding interest will be sought, rather than those of a local, temporary, or merely popular character. Thus will the work be as valuable twenty or fifty years hence, as now. It will aim to meet the demands and to increase the power of the pulpit, by examining a wide range of topics, and furnishing illustrations of Christian truth from the various departments of science.

The publication will embrace Theology in its widest acceptation, as comprehending the Literature of the Scriptures, Biblical Criticism, Natural and Revealed Theology, Church History with the History of the Christian Doctrines and Sacred Rhetoric. Special prominence will be given to Sacred Literature. It will be the aim to procure for every Number two or three Articles at least, explanatory or illustrative of the Scriptures, direct expositions of the text, or discussions in the rich field of Biblical Criticism. Particular facilities in some parts of this department are supplied by American Missionaries resident in Syria and Western Asia, and by travellers in the East. We shall endeavor to enliven the discussions of a more abstract nature by the insertion, in each Number, if possible, of one piece of biography.

To a limited extent, questions in Mental and Moral Philosophy will be discussed, partly on account of their immediate and important

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bearing upon Theology, and partly for the sake of the intrinsic value of the questions themselves.

Some attention will also be paid to Classical Literature. Many of our subscribers, and some of our most valued contributors are Presidents and Professors in the colleges. No publication in this country is specifically devoted to the classical languages. They furnish many topics of special interest to the Biblical student and which have important relations to Sacred Literature.

In short, the great object of the conductors of this publication will be to furnish a Biblical and Theological Journal of an elevated character, which will be welcome to clergymen and enlightened laymen, which will be viewed abroad as doing honor to the scholarship of the United States, and which will directly advance the interests of sound learning and pure religion.

The union of the Bibliotheca Sacra with the Biblical Repository has excited a general interest both in this country and in England and Scotland. There is not only a large circulation of the American edition, but arrangements have been made to republish the work in Great Britain. The assistance of Drs. Davidson of England and Alexander of Scotland has also been secured in the editorial department. The circulation in this country has been largely increased, and the work is placed on a permanent basis; still its usefulness and value depend much on maintaining and extending its American circulation. It is hoped that the friends of the work will not allow it to suffer in this regard. The present Number, it will be noticed, appears in a new and improved type.

TERMS.-$4.00 per annum. The work is offered at $3.00 to those who pay strictly in advance, and receive the Numbers directly from the office of publication, postage unpaid.

POSTAGE. The Postage on the Bibliotheca Sacra is 5 cents per Number, or 20 cents per year, to any part of the United States. Subscribers, therefore, in any part of the Union, who pay in advance, may receive the work directly from the office of publication for the moderate sum of $3.20 per annum, including the Postage.

W. F. DRAPER & BROTHER, Publishers.

"The importance of this great Biblical Quarterly to those whose office it is to interpret the Scriptures to men, aud to impress the themes of the Gospel from the pulpit, is not understood as it should be among the churches. No church ought to allow its minister's table to be without it. A new year's present to him of this Quarterly - a present in effect repeated four times in the year- would animate his heart, replenish his mind, and make him a more acceptable and useful minister for all the year. Why will not some layman, in every church, charge himself with the duty of asking his minister this week if he takes the Bibliotheca; and, if he does not, of supplying him with it, as a testimony of kindness and Christian affection?"-The Independent, May 5, 1853.

"Such an array of able contributions from such an array of distinguished men, we do not recollect ever to have seen in a single number of any American Quarterly."-New York Observer, Jan. 27, 1853.

"It is apparent that this learned Quarterly continues well to sustain its just and eminent reputation, and merits a constantly increasing patronage."-Congregationalist, July 29, 1858.

"This is, on the whole, the most learned periodical of which our country can boast. It is adapted especially to scholars, though there are many articles which any general reader of intelligence will know how to appreciate." "The idea too extensively prevails that the Bibliotheca Sacra is occupied to such an extent with philological, exegetical and critical disquisitions, as to render it unprofitable to any but a comparatively limited class, composing the theological book-worms of the country. This is a mistake. There are none, who have ever themselves been tolerable scholars, who will not be pleased to find, in the pages of this work, the results of the deepest learning brought entirely within their reach for the most valuable practical ends; while there is much in every number to interest all intelligent, thinking readers, whether learned or unlearned, in the critical use of those terms."-Puritan Recorder.

"This is a work of elevated and established character. It offers the reader the combined results of mature scholarship, accurate biblical analysis, and sound philosophy, on themes of permanent interest to students and ministers of every denomination."-Christian Observer, Philadelphia, Jan. 22, 1853.

"No Quarterly is laid upon our table more freighted with learning, or marked by greater scope and ability than the Bibliotheca."-Watchman and Reflector, April 28, 1853.

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This learned and instructive Quarterly is the ablest of its class within our knowledge."-Christian Intelligencer, April 14, 1853.

"This Quarterly is replete with rich and varied discussions and instructions, literary and theological. The whole series of this Journal already comprises a vast depository of literary and theological treatises, original and select, of great interest and permanent value, which should enrich the library of every gentleman of cultivated taste, as well as that of the theological student, the clergyman, and the theological or academical professor.”—Presbyterian Banner, Philadelphia, May 14, 1853.

"Immediately upon its first publication, the Bibliotheca Sacra assumed, by the universal consent of theologians and classical scholars, the first rank among the Quarterlies of America. It has preserved its reputation; for it is still the best theological and classical Miscellany in this country. Indeed, there is not its equal in Great Britain, Kitto's Journal of Sacred Literature being decidedly its inferior. It circulates quite extensively in that country; and copies of it are even taken in Germany, a land that abounds in periodicals of the highest scientific and literary value."-The Chronicle, New Orleans, Nov. 1, 1852.

"It would be superfluous to dwell here upon the merits of a work, regarded by the good and learned, at home and abroad, with so much favor; and to whose dignified pages it is well known, nothing that in style or sentiment is not worthy of the best minds or most mature scholarship, gains access."- Western Recorder.

Just published in fcap. 4to. price $1.00, or cloth gilt edges, $1.37

TO BE COMPLETED IN ABOUT FIFTEEN PARTS.

Part I. Containing the whole of Genesis.

THE

ENGLISH BIBLE,

Containing the Old and New Testaments, according to the Authorized Version; newly divided into Paragraphs; with concise Introductions to the several Books; and with Maps and Notes illustrative of the Chronology, History and Geography of the Holy Scriptures; containing also the most remarkable Variations of the Ancient Versions, and the chief results of Modern Criticism.

"This new edition of the English Bible, dedicated to Queen Victoria, is a very handsome, and bids fair to be a very useful, one. So far as the book of Genesis goes, it gives what the title promises, and that is saying much. The division into paragraphs is excellent, and in accordance with the best results of modern criticism; the chronology is as little liable to exception as any that can be devised from the data we have; the marginal notes and references are brief, judicious, and to the purpose; while the introductions and comments are distinguished for perspicuity, brevity and instructiveness.”—Bib. Sac., July, 1853.

"This edition. to judge from the specimen before us, which contains the Book of Genesis, promises to be one of the most complete, accurate, and useful editions of the English Bible that we have yet seen. The Notes in the Appendix are drawn up with much care, being for the most part compiled from modern authorities of the orthodox German school."-Critic, June 1.

"The notes on Genesis accompanying this Part have evidently been written by one whose theological learning critreal acumen, and thorough acquaintance with the original text, well fitted him for the task. The best commentators of our own country and Germany have been carefully consulted, and these in addition to the usual ancient authorities form a body of notes of great value and of sterling merit."-Dover Chronicle, May 28.

"The arrangement, marginal_notices, and notes of the present edition of the Sacred Volume appear to us to be most carefully done."-Bristol Times, May 14. "This edition of the Holy Scriptures combines great beauty of typography with many features of utility. The notes, chiefly philological and expository, show judgment and research."-Aberdeen Free Press.

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'We can speak in the highest terms of the manner in which the First Part, containing the whole of Genesis, is turned out."-Cambridge Chronicle, May 7.

We really cannot praise this noble edition of God's Holy Word too highly." -Bucks Herald, May 14.

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'Promises, from the abundant, yet brief and reliable amount of criticism and arrangement it displays, to be one of the most valuable editions of the Holy Scriptures ever presented to the public. The Appendix giving the collation of the most important variations of the ancient versions contained in Bishop Walton's Polyglot Bible."-Port of Portsmouth Guardian, May 18.

"It strikes us as one of the most valuable characteristics of the English Bible' that the various readings of the ancient versions are collated, so that at a single glance we may see how the passage before us was understood by the early translators into Chaldee, Samaritan. Syriac, the Vulgate, Arabic, Persic. and Ethiopic. This gives the wealth of Polyglots, and is of so great value that we almost forgot the tables, indexes, etc., that also demand attention, with critical notes and elucidations from modern discoveries and travels."-Christian Times, June 3.

Published by BLACKADER & Co., LONDON.

For sale by W. F. DRAPER & BROTHER, Andover.

THE

BIBLIOTHECA SACRA,

NO. XLI.

AND

AMERICAN BIBLICAL REPOSITORY,

NO. XCIII.

JANUARY, 1854.

ARTICLE I.

RHETORIC DETERMINED AND APPLIED.1

By Laurens P. Hickok, D. D., Union College, Schenectady, N. Y.

Ax orator has ceased speaking. The audience are just recovering themselves from the spell in which for hours they have been bound, and are now slowly and thoughtfully passing away from the place of concourse. Every countenance expresses the power which the speaker has had over the emotions of the soul, for the whole retiring audience carry away the impress given by his eloquence.

Here, then, is just the point for the philosophic observer coolly to take in the whole scene, and determine that which is the radi cal peculiarity in it. Within a few hours, at the most, all this effect has been produced. This mass of mind came together various and isolate; it has gone away assimilated and fused into one. Every mind knows that its whole transformation during this period has been by the power of eloquence, and yet probably few of that audience can say precisely what that wonderful power is. It is not many things, but one thing; not a composite, but a simple. Like the force which unites nature, it is one, though everywhere diffused; like the life of the body, it ener

1 This Article was originally delivered as an Oration before the Porter Rhe torical Society of Andover Theological Seminary, Sept. 6, 1853.

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