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Cambridge:

PRINTED BY J. AND C. F. CLAY,

AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS.

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THE present General Editor for the Old Testament in The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges desires to say that, in accordance with the policy of his predece the Bishop of Worcester, he does not hold himself responsible for the particular interpretations adopted or for the opinions expressed by the Editors of the several Books, nor has he endeavoured to bring them into agreement with one another. is inevitable that there should be differences of opinion in regard to many questions of criticism and interpretation, and it seems best that these differences should find free expression in different volumes. He has endeavoured to secure, as far as possible, that the general scope and character of the Series should be observed, and that views which have a reasonable claim to consideration should not be ignored, but he has felt it best that the final responsibility should, in general, rest with the individual contributors.

A. F. KIRKPATRICK.

CHRON.

Thus there seemed to be room for a new history, which should

confine itself to matters still interesting to the theocracy of Zion, keeping Ferusalem and the Temple in the foreground, and developing the Divine pragmatism of the history, not so much with reference to the prophetic word as to the fixed legislation of the Pentateuch, so that the whole narrative might be made to teach that the glory of Israel lies in the observance of the Divine law and ritual.

W. ROBERTSON SMITH.

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