Introduction to the Catholic Epistles, Vol. 1 of 2 (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Introduction to the Catholic Epistles, Vol. 1 of 2 After the book was completed, several recent works of importance came under my notice, these have been carefully read and consulted, and such references as were thought desirable have been made in notes, as they could not without much inconvenience be incorporated into the body of the work. Four of these deserve special mention: Holzmann's Einleitung in das neue Testament, 1885, Spitta's Der zweite Brief des Petrus und der Brief des Judas, 1885, Mangold's edition of Bleek's Einleitung in das neue Testament, vierte Auflage, 1886, and Weiss' Lehrbuch der Einleitung in das neue Testament, 1886. Introductions to the New Testament are rare in England. The only important books of the kind with which I am acquainted, are the works of the Rev. T. Hartwell Horne, Dr. Samuel Davidson, and Professor Salmon. Horne's Introduction to the Scriptures is a repository of information with regard to biblical criticism in general, but the part of it which consists of a proper introduction to the different books of the New Testament is meagre and defective. A new and more valuable edition of this work has been published by Tregelles. The work has, however, in a great measure become antiquated. Dr. Davidson has two Introductions: the one entitled Introduction to the New Testament, published in 1848, and the other entitled Introduction to the Study of the New Testament, published in 1868, and a second edition, considerably altered, published in 1882. These, it need not be said, are both works of the highest interest and importance, but they can with no propriety be considered to be recensions of the same work, they proceed from very different standpoints. In the first work Dr. Davidson belongs to the positive critical school, while in the second work he is in close relation to the Tubingen school. Nor do I consider that the second work supersedes the first, for although Dr. Davidson has modified several of his opinions, yet the reasons by which he supports his former opinions are of great force, and sometimes appear to me to be even more convincing than those for their alteration. 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.