Vol 04 - THE POETICAL BOOKS.

THE POETICAL BOOKS.

332 DURELL (D., D.D.) Critical Remarks on the Books of Job, Prov., Psalms, Eccles., and Song of Solomon 4:1-16 to. Oxf., 1772. 4/- to 6/- A critic who is for ever mending the text, who contends for the modern origin of J ob, thinks the Canticles to be a love song, and considers the imprecatory Psalms to e ebullitions of passion, is not one whom our readers need consult.

333 HOLDEN (LAWRENCE). Paraphrase on the Books of Job, Psalms, Proverbs, and Ecclesiastes, with Notes. 4 vols., 8vo. x763. 5/- An atrocious instance of bombastic verbosity. Job ii. 2 is thus expanded :

— ”Heaven and earth’s great Lord and guardian, the instant Satan appeared observed, and thus demanded of him: ‘ from what quarter proceedest thou ? or in what district, and to what purpose hast thou lately employed thy perverted, and subtle, wicked abilities and arts ?’ To whom the destroyer answers: ‘ my last station, or rather, unsettled, wandering motion, has been upon earth; various districts whereof I have made short visits to, being sometimes with the inhabitants of one region or climate, sometimes with those of another.’” Paraphrases generally mean the text padded out with superfluous words, and this is an emphatic instance.

334 KITTO. Daily Bible Illustrations, “Job and the Poetical Books.” (See No. 41.) Worthy of attentive reading.

335 LEIGH (EDWARD). See under Whole Bible, No. 44.

336 WILCOCKS (ThoMAs, A.M. Puritan. 1549 — 1908). The Works of that Reverend and Learned Divine, Mr. Thomas Wilcocks, Minister of God’s Word: containing an Exposition upon the whole booke of David’s Psalmes, Solomon’s Proverbs, the Canticles, and part of the eighth chapter of St. Paul’s Epistle to the Romans. Folio. Lond., 1589, i62o and I624. 9/- to 12/- Very old. The notes are brief, but furnish many hints for sermons.