Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament
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CORNELL UNIVERSITY LIBRARY ( Biblica Tr PRESENTED BY ALFRED C. BARNES. NOT TO BE TAKEN IL, FROM THE ROOM. CORNELL UNIVERSITY LIBRARY 3 1924 070 685 833 The original of this book is in the Cornell University Library. There are no known copyright restrictions in the United States on the use of the text. http://www.archive.org/cletails/cu31924070685833 — — — — — — T. and T. Clark's Publications. In Three Volumes, Imperial 8vo, price 24.S. each, ENCYCLOPEDIA OR DICTIONARY OF BIBLICAL, HISTORICAL, DOCTRINAL, AND PRACTICAL THEOLOGY. BASED ON THE REAL-ENCYKLOPADIE OF HERZ06, PLITT, AND H4DCK. EDITED BY PHILIP SCHAFF, D.D., LL.D., PROFESSOR IN THE UNION THEOLOaiCAL SEMINARY, NEW TORK. 'As a compreliensiTe work of reference, within a moderate compass, we know nothing at all equal to it in the large department which it deals with.' Church Bells. ' The work will remain as a wonderful monument of industry, learning, and skill. 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L E D I N B U E G II : T. & T. CLAEK, 38, GEORGE STREET. MUCCCLXXXIV. PRINTED BY MORRISON AND OIBB, FOR T. & T. CLARK, EDINBIPBGH. CO. LONDON, . HAMILTON, ADAMS, AND DUBLIN, . GEOROE HERBERT. SCRIDNER AND WELFORD. VEW YORK, . BIBLICAL COMMEKTARY PROVEEBS OF SOLOMON BY FRANZ DELTTZSCH, D.D., rTiorEssoB of theology. TRANSLATED FROM THE GERMAN BY M. G. E_ASTON, D.D. VOL. L EDINBUEGH: T. & T. CLAEK, 38, GEOEGE STEEET. 1884. TEANSLATOK'S PEEFACE. HE volume which is here presented to English readers is the first of three whicli will contain the Solomonic writings. They form the last section of the " Keil and Delitzsch" series of Commentaries on the Books of the Old Testament Scriptures. The remaining volume on the Pro- verbs, as well as that on Ecclesiastes and the Canticles, which has also been prepared by Delitzsch, and is now in course of publication in Germany, will be issued with as little delay as possible. In this translation I have endeavoured accurately to reproduce the original, so as to bring the student as much as possible into direct contact with the learned commentator himself. Any ex- planatory notes or words I have thought it right to add are enclosed easily in square brackets [ ], so as to be distinguishable. The Arabic and Syriac words occurring in the original have been, with very few exceptions, printed in English characters. In their vocalization I have followed the system of Forbes in his Arabic Grammar, so that the student will be readily able to restore the original. When nothing depends on the inflection of these words, the consonants only are printed. It might appear superfluous in me to speak in commendation of the great work which is now drawing to a close ; but a translator, since he has necessarily been in close fellowship with the author, may be expected to be in a position to offer an opinion on the character of the work on which he has been engaged ; and I am sure that all my coUahorateurs will concur with me in speaking of the volumes which form this commentary as monuments of deep vlil TEANSLATOE'S PEEFACE. and careful research into the meaning of the sacred Scriptures. Whether or not we can in all cases accept the conclusions reached by the respected authors, no one can fail to see how elaborate and minute the investigation has been. These volumes are the ripest fruits of life-long study of the Old Testament. Their authors are exegetes who have won for themselves an honoured place in the foremost rank for their profound acquaintance with the Hebrew and its cognate languages. With a scholarship of rare compass and accuracy, they combine a reverent sympathy with the sacred Scriptures, and a believing appreciation of its saving truths. The satisfaction I have had in the study of this work, and in spending so many of my leisure hours in rendering it into English, is greatly heightened by the reflection, that I have been enabled in this way to contribute to the number of exegetical works within reach of the English student. The exegetical study of God's word, which appears to be increasingly drawing the attention of theo- logians, and which has been so greatly stimulated by the Transla- tions issued by the publishers of this work, cannot fail to have the most beneficial results. The minister of the gospel will find such study his best and truest preparation for his weighty duties as an expounder of Scripture, if prosecuted in the spirit of a devout recognition of the truth, that " bene orasse est bene studuisse." Thus is he led step by step into a thorough and full understanding of the words and varying forms of expression used by those " holy men of old, who spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost," Daryel, October 1874. AUTHOR'S PEEFACE. HE preparation of this Commentary on the Mislile, I which was begun in 1869 (not without previous pre- paration), and twice interrupted by providential events, extended into the winter of 1872.