Excerpt from Recensio Synoptica Annotationis Sacrae, Vol. 4: Being a Critical Digest and Synoptical Arrangement of the Most Important Annotations on the New Testament, Exegetical, Philological, and Doctrinal IN thus, at length, ushering into the world the Second Part of the arduous Work which he has been enabled to accomplish, the Author feels it is due to the Public to preface it with a brief statement of the causes which occasioned so long a delay in publica tion, and especially the reasons which induced him to adopt some alterations (and, as he trusts, improve ments, ) in his plan. These had partly occurred to him from experience and mature reflection, and partly, had been suggested by some distinguished personages, who kindly took an interest in the Work, and to whose opinions much deference was, on various accounts, justly due. Both combined to point out that, in consequence of the immense mass of anno tatory matter to be digested and reviewed in this se cond Part (comprehending nearly three-fourths of the difficulties of the New Testament), and of the mar vellous diversities, nay, contrarieties, of interpreta tion perpetually to be encountered, it would be im possible to make the Work answer the chief purpose in View, or, indeed, to do any tolerable justice to the subject, within the prescribed limits, which, indeed, the Author had rather hoped than expected would suffice. That, moreover, in this portion of Scripture the nature of the subjects treated of rendered it necessary to in. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.