Vol 04 - LUKE.

LUKE.

[See also on the Gospels. Oosterzee in Lange is excellent.] 1050 FOOTE (JAMES, M.A.) Lectures on Luke 2:1-52 vols. 8vo. Third edition. Edinb., Ogle &. Murray, and Oliver &

Boyd; Lond., Hamilton, Adams & Co. 1858. S. 9/-We frequently consult this work, and never without .finding in it things new and old. To preachers who will not steal the lectures, but use them suggestively, they will be extremely serviceable.

GODET (F., Professor of Theology, Neuchatel). Commentary on Luke.

Translated by E. W. Shelders, B.A., and M.D. Cusin. 2 vols., 8vo. 2I/- Edinb., Clark. 1875. Dr. Meyer says: “To an immense erudition, to a living piety, Godet unites a profound feeling of reality; there is here a vivifying breath, an ardent love for the Savior, which helps the disciple to comprehend the work, the acts, the words of his Divine Master.”

1052 GOODWIN (HARVEY, D.D.) Commentary on Luke. Cr. 8vo.

9/- Lond., G. Bell & Sons. x865. This writer endeavors to give the results of learning in such a manner that working men may understand them. He says many good things.

1053 MAJOR (J. R., M.A.) Luke, with English Notes. 8vo. Lond., 1826.

3/- Notes compiled with a view to the divinity examinations at Cambridge, containing a considerable amount of information.

1054 THOMSON (JAMES, D.D.) Exposition of Luke, in a Series of Lectures. 3 vols., 8vo. Edinb., A. & C. Black; Lond., Longmans. I849. 6/- to 8/-

Eminently instructive. Clear good sense, freshness, and earnestness are well combined. We have had great pleasure in examining these lectures.

VAN DOREN (W. H., of Chicago). Suggestive Commentary on the New Testament, on an original plan [Luke 2:1-52 vols., cr. 8vo., 8/- nett.] Lond., Dickinson. 187x.

Well named “suggestive”,’ it is all suggestions. It teems and swarms with homiletical hints JOHN.

ANDERSON (ROBERT. 1792 — 1843). Practical Exposition of John 2:1-25 vols., 12mo. Lond., 1841. 4/- By an evangelical clergyman: sound, but not very original. io57 AUGUSTINE. Commentary on John 2:1-25 vols. of Works of Augustine, now in course of issue by T. & T. Clark. Edinb.

1058 ,, Homilies on the Gospel and First Epistle of John 2:1-25 vols. of the Library of the Fathers, 30/-; or to subscribers, 22/6. Lond. and Oxf, Jas.

Parker & Co. To the wise a mine of treasure. Augustine is often fanciful; but even his fancies show a master-mind. Much that passes for new is stolen from this prince of theologians.

1059 BEITH (ALEXANDER, D.D.) Expository Discourses. Cr. 8vo.

Lond., Nisbet. I857. 3/6.

Discourses which must have been very profitable to the hearers. Students will do better with works which are more condensed.

1o6o BESSER (RUDOLPH, D.D.) Biblical Studies on John. Trans- lated from the German by M. G. Huxtable. 2 vols. cr. 8vo.

15/- Edinb., T. & T. Clark. I861 — 62.

“The character of this commentary is practical and devotional. There are often very exquisite devotional passages, and a vein of earnest piety runs through the whole work.” — Literary Churchman.

BROWN (GEORGE J., M.A.) Lectures, forming a Continuous Commentary. 5 vols., 8vo. Lond., Rivingtons. i863. S. 5/6. The plan of this work will prevent its being widely used; but its execution strikes us as being uncommonly able. It is a gathering up of other men’s materials and an amalgamation of them. It is intensely Episcopalian, even to Baptismal Regeneration, yet it brings a good deal of light to bear on the Gospel of John, and, if to be met with at a very low figure, it is not to be passed by.

DRUMMOND (D. T. K., B.A.) Exposition of the Last Nine Chapters of John 12:1-50 mo. Seeleys. 185o. 2/- Good, but not very striking.

1063 DUNWELL (FRANCIS HENRY, B.A.) Commentary on the Authorised Version of John, compared with the Sinaitic, Vatican, and Alexandrian Manuscripts, and also with Dean Alford’s revised translation. 8vo. 15/- Lond., J. T. Hayes. 1872. S. 10/- The notes from various authors are good, and the various readings are useful; but we fail to see any very special value in the volume. The interpretation of the Third of John is eminently unsatisfactory; Mr. Dunwell teaches Baptismal Regeneration.

1064 FAWCETT (JOHN, A.M. I769 — 1851). Exposition of John.

3 vols., 8vo., 21/- Lond., Hatchards. 186o. S. 8/- Good, evangelical sermons.

HENGSTENBERG (E. W., D.D.) Commentary on John.

2 vols., 8vo. 21/.. Edinb., Clark. x868. S. 8/6.

Like others of this author’s works: solid, but dry.

1066 HUTCHESON (GEORGE). Exposition of John. Folio. Lond., 1657.

Reprinted, roy. 8vo. Lond., Ward. 1841.

4/- to 6/.

Excellent; beyond all praise. It is a full-stored treasury of sound theology, holy thought, and marrowy doctrine.

1067 MEYER (H. A. W., D.D.) See No. 928.

1068 O’CONOR (W. A.) Commentary. Cr. 8vo. 10/6. Lond., Longmans.

I872. In this translation the first verse runs thus: “In origin the Word was, and the Word was the Deity, and the Word was Deity.” Who likes this, or understands it ? The notes do not charm us.

1069 SHEPHERD (R., D.D.) Notes on the Gospel and Epistles of John.

4to.

Lond., 1796. Imp. 8vo. Lond., Murray. 1841. S. 3/6.

Though the author opposed Socinianism, we cannot but regard his views as an introduction to that heresy. The spirit of the book is vicious.

1070 THOLUOK (AUGUSTUS F., D.D., Ph.D.) Commentary.

8vo. 9/- Edinb., T. & T. Clark. 186o. S. 4/6.

Mare spiritual than is usual with German theologians, and quite as scholarly as the best of them.

TITTMANN (K. C., Theol. Prof. 1744 — 1820). Commentary. vols., cr. 8vo. 8/- Bib. Cab. Edinb., T. Clark. x844. S. 4/6. Horne, in speaking of this work in the German, without endorsing all Tittmann’s opinions, declares it to be the most valuable commentary on John extant in so small a form. Our judgment is less commendatory.

1072 TRAHERON (BARTHOLOMEW. Died 1716.) An Exposition of a Parte of S. Johannes Gospel made in sondrie readinges in the English Congregation, 12mo. x558. Very rare, 3o/- A little quaint old book. Not intrinsically worth the price, nor a tenth of it.

VAN DOREN (W. H., D.D.) Suggestive Commentary on John, Vol. I., containing chap. I. — IX. Cr. 8vo. 5/- nett. Vol II. in the press. Lond., Dickinson. i872. Dr men who read this volume do not preach the better for so doing, it is not Mr. Van Doren’s fault; they must be Van Dolts by nature, though they may ignore the family name.