Bible. N.T. Pastoral epistles. Greek. 1897. A CRITICAL AND GRAMMATICAL COMMENTARY ON THE PASTORAL EPISTLES. WITH A REVISED TRANSLATION. BY RT. REV. CHARLES J. ELLICOTT, D.D., LORD BISHOP OF GLOUCESTER AND BRISTOL. Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1860, by WARREN F. DRAPER, In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts. Andover: Electrotyped and Printed by W. F. Draper. 79444 JUN 1 1904 .A PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION. THE following Commentary is substantially the same, both in principles and execution, as those on the Galatians and Ephesians. I have, however, earnestly striven, on the one hand, to introduce improvements, and, on the other, to amend defects of which time, experience, and, above all, the kind criticism of friends have not failed to convince me. I will briefly notice both. In the first place the reader will find the substance of the grammatical references more fully stated in the notes, while at the same time care has been taken to modify and repress the use of technical terms, as far as is consistent with the nature of the Commentary. I confess I cannot yet persuade myself that the use of technical terms in grammar, independently of subserving to brevity, does not also tend to accuracy and perspicuity; still so many objections have been urged by judicious advisers, that I have not failed to give them my most respectful attention. This modification, however, has been introduced with great caution; for the exclusion of all technical terms would not only be wholly inconsistent with the lex operis, but would be certain to lead the way to a rambling inexactitude, which in grammar, as in all other sciences, can never be too scrupulously avoided. I have also endeavored, as far as possible, to embody in the notes the sentiments and opinions of the dogmatical writers, more especially those of the great English Divines to whom I have been able to refer. Yet here again this has been subordinated to the peculiar nature of the Commentary, which, to be true to its title, must mainly occupy itself with what is critical and grammatical, and must in other subjects confine itself to references and allusions. Still, as in the preface to the Ephesians, so here again, let me earnestly entreat my less mature readers not to regard as the mere bibliographical embroidery of a dull page the references to our English Divines. |