Vol 04 - JUDE.

JUDE.

1406 BICKERSTETH (E.) See No. I386.

1407 GARDINER (F., M.A.) The Last of the Epistles. Commentary on Jude. Cr. 8vo. Boston, U.S. 1856. 2/6. An interesting, straightforward, instructive commentary.

14o8 JENKYN (WILLIAM. I612 — I685). Exposition of Jude 1:2 vols., 41o., I652, 4/-; folio, I656, 3/6. Rev. J. Sherman’s reprint, imp. 8vo. I839.

See No. 1251.

Earnest and popular, but very full, and profoundly learned. A treasure- house of good things.

1409 LUTHER. See No. 1372.

1410 McGILVRAY (WALTER). Lectures on Jude 1:8 vo. Glasg., I855. 3/- Scarce.

Vigorous, popular addresses by a Free Church divine.

1411 MANTON (THOMAS, D.D.) Commentary on Jude. 41o. Lond.,

I658. 4/-

Manton at first gave up all idea of printing this book on Jude, when he found that Jenkyn had taken up the subject; but he afterwards changed his mind. He tells us: “I consulted with my reverend brother’s book, and when ] found any point at large discussed by him, / either omitted it or mentioned it very briefly; so that his labors will be necessary to supply the weaknesses of mine.” Manton’s work is most commendable.

1412 MUIR (WILLIAM, D.D.) Discourses on Jude 1:8 vo. Glasg., I822.

2/6. Sermons which do not rise above mediocrity.

OTES (SAMUEL, the elder). Explanation of Jude in forty-one Sermons.

Folio. Lond., 1633. 5/- to 8/- Of the conforming Puritan style, full of quaintnesses and singularities of learning. A book by no means to be despised.

14I4 PERKINS (WILLIAM, D.D.) Exposition of Jude. 41o. 16o6. 5/6.

Perkins was regarded by his cotemporaries as a paragon of learning, but his writings fail to interest the generality of readers.

1415 TURNBULL (RICHARD, M.A.) Exposition of Jude. See No. 1367.

1416 WILLET (ANDREW). A Catholicon; gathered out o[ the Catholike Epistle of Jude. Folio. Lond., 1614. This book is in the Museum, but we cannot procure a copy. The works upon REVELATION are so extremely numerous (Darling’s list contains 52 columns), and the views entertained are so many, so different, and so speculative, that after completing our List we resolved not to occupy our space with it, but merely to mention a few works of repute. As for the lucubrations upon parts of the book, they lie at the booksellers’

“thick as leaves in Vallambrosa.” Numbers of these prophecyings have been disproved by the lapse of time, and others will in due season share their fate. The following remarks may help the, student, and at the same time prove the difficulty of making a selection.

Davidson distinguishes a fourfold manner of apprehending Apocalyptic Prophecy.

I. Preterists. The prophecies contained in the Apocalypse were fulfilled with the destruction of Jerusalem and the fall of heathen Rome. This is the view of ]3ossuet, Grotius, Hammond, Wetstein, Eichhorn, Ewald, De Wette, Lucke, and others, among whom is the American expositor, Moses Stuart.

2. Continuists. The Apocalyptic prophecies are predictive of progressive history, being partly fulfilled, partly unfulfilled. Thus Mede, Brightman, Isaac Newton, Woodhouse, Cunningham, Birks, Elliott (and many Germans).

3. Simple Futurists. According to these, only the first three chapters relate to the historical present of the Seer, all else having reference to the absolute future of the Lord’s Appearing. Thus, Burgh, Maitland, Benjamin Newton, Todd, and others.

4. Extreme Futurists. Even the first three chapters of Revelation are a prophecy relative to the absolute future of Christ’s Coming — being a prediction of the condition of the Jews after the first Resurrection. Kelly, and some Irish authors.

BENGEL (JOHN ALBERT). Introduction to his Exposition of the Apocalypse, with his preface to that work, and the greatest part of the conclusion of it, and also his marginal notes on the text, which are a summary of the whole Exposition. Translated from the High Dutch, by John Robertson, M.D. 8vo. Land., I757. This great author was rather too precise in his dates. The end of the forty- two :months was settled for the 21st of May, 1810, and the destruction of the beast for June 18th, I836. When so princely an expositor maunders in this fashion it should act as a caution to less able men.

1418 BONAR (H., D.D.) Light and Truth, vol. V. (See No. 6.) 1419 BRIGHTMAN (THomas). The Revelation of St. John. Thick 8vo.

Leyden, x644. 4to. Amsterdam, 1611. [See Nos. 649 and 775-]

Brightman’s admirers called him “the English Prophet,” and this work they styled the “Apocalypse of the Apocalypse;” but it survives only as a noteworthy monument of the failure of the most learned to expound the mysteries of this book. Elliott says “his Commentary is one of great vigor both in thought and language, and deservedly one of the most popular with the Protestant Churches of the time.”

1420 BURGH [or, DE BURGH] (WILLIAM, M.A.) An Exposition of the Revelation 12:1-17 mo. Dublin, 1857. 2/- Good in its own line.

COWPER (WILLIAM, of Galloway. 1566 — 1619). Pathmos; or, a Commentary on the Revelation 4:1-11 to. Lond., 1619; and in Works, folio, 1629. The simple piety and vigorous style of Cowper have preserved his old- fashioned work, and will preserve it.

1422 CRADOCK (SAMUEL, B.D. 1620 — 1760). Exposition. 8va. x696.

Dr. Doddridge and yah Orton were very fond of this old author. We are not.

1423 CUMMING (J.) Apocalyptic Sketches. 2 vols., 12mo. S. 5/. Here the views of Elliott are admirably popularized.

DAUBUZ (CHARLES. I670 — 1740). A Perpetual Commentary on the Revelation. Abridged by Peter Lancaster, A.M. 4to.

Lond., 1730. 3/6.

Subsequent writers have drawn much from this work; we have heard it highly commended by competent judges. There is also a larger unabridged edition, which we have not seen. This is said to be still more valuable.

DURHAM (JAMES. 1622 — 1658). A Learned and Complete Commentary. 4to. Glasg., 1788. Original edition, folio, x658. After all that has been written, it would not be easy to find a more sensible and instructive work than this old-fashioned exposition. We cannot accept its interpretations of the mysteries, but the mystery of the gospel tills it with sweet savor.

1426 ELLIOTT (C. B., A.M. Died 1875). Horae Apoc-alypticae; or, a Commentary on the Apocalypse, critical and historical. 4 vols. 8va., Land., Seeleys. I862. S. iS/-The standard work an the subject.

1427 GARRATT (SAMUEL, M.A.) Commentary. 8va. 7/6. Lond., Seeleys. 1866. S. 2/- to 3/6. This author mainly follows Elliott, but differs as he proceeds. He is an esteemed author.

1428 FULLER (ANDREW. 1754 — 1815). Expositor)’ Discourses.

2 vols., 8va. 1815. Also in Works.

Fuller is too judicious to run into speculations. The work is both condensed and clear. Fuller called Faber “the Fortune-teller of the Church,:’ and there are others who deserve the name.

1429 GLASGOW (JAMES, D.D.) Apocalypse Translated and Ex. pounded. 8vo. 2(6. Edinb., T. & T. Clark. 1862.

We ,10 not care much for the translation, and think some of the interpretations speculative and forced; yet the work is important.

1430 HENGSTENBERG (E. W., D.D.) The Revelation expounded for those who search the Scriptures. Translated by Patrick Fairbairn, D.D. 2 vols., 8vo. Edinb., 1851-52. S. 14/6. Scarce.

Highly esteemed by the best judges.

MEDE (JOSEPH, B.D., 1586 — 1638). A Key to the Apocalypse; [-a Translation of Mede’s Clavis Apocalyptica. By R. Bransby Cooper, Esq.] 8vo. Lond., 1833. 3/6.

There are several other works on the Apocalypse by this author, who, says Elliott, “was looked upon and written of as a man almost inspired for the solution of the Apocalyptic mysteries. Yet I think his success was at first over-estimated as an Apocalyptic expositor.”