SYNOPSIS OF CRITICISMS.

DIVINITY SCHOOL

LIBRARY

HARVARD UNIVERSITY

A

SYNOPSIS OF CRITICISMS

UPON THOSE

PASSAGES OF THE OLD TESTAMENT,

IN WHICH

MODERN COMMENTATORS HAVE DIFFERED

FROM THE

AUTHORIZED VERSION;

TOGETHER WITH AN EXPLANATION OF VARIOUS DIFFICULTIES IN
THE HEBREW AND ENGLISH TEXTS.

Arthur Fraais

BY THE REV. RICHARD A. F. BARRETT, M. A.,

FELLOW OF KING'S COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE.

All flesh is as grass,

And all the glory of man as the flower of grass.

The grass withereth,

And the flower thereof falleth away;

But the word of the LORD endureth for ever.-1 PETER i. 24, 25.

VOLUME I.-PART I.

LONDON:

LONGMAN, BROWN, GREEN, AND LONGMANS.

MDCCCXLVII.

Bi758.47

HARVARD COLLEGE

Dec, 17, 1880

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ALEXANDER MACINTOSH

PRINTER,

GREAT NEW-STREET, LONDON,

TO THE

REVEREND SIR GEORGE W. CRAUFURD, BARONET,

FORMERLY FELLOW AND DIVINITY LECTURER OF

KING'S COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE,

AS A SMALL TESTIMONY OF GRATITUDE FOR BENEFITS

CONFERRED UPON THE COLLEGE,

THIS WORK

IS RESPECTFULLY INSCRIBED

BY THE EDITOR.