Vol 04 - MALACHI

MALACHI 884 MOORE (T. V., D.D.) See under Haggai, No. 873.

815 POCOCK (EDWARD, D.D.) See under Joel, No. 835.

SCLATER (WILLIAM, D.D.) Brief and Plain Commentary upon Malachy. 4to. Lond., 1650. 5/’ or 6/- Not equal to the general standard of Puritan comments. The editor of’ the work rightly says, “the method is, for the chapters themselves, analytical; for the practical observations, synthetical.” We are quaintly told that he would start the hare with any man; that is to say, he would suggest thought and leave others to pursue its track.

887 STOCK (RICHARD, M.A. 1568 — 1626). A Commentary upon Malachy. Whereunto is added an Exercitation upon the same Prophecy by Samuel Torshell. Folio. Lond., 1641. [Re- printed, together with Bernard and Fuller on Ruth. Cr. 4to.

7/6. Lond., Nisbet. x865.] See 2Va. 262.

Contains a slack of knowledge, and more than a sufficient stock of quotations from the fathers. Torshell printed the book fifteen years after Stack’s death, and finding it to be written for a popular audience only, he added an examination of the original and a few notes in a more learned style, to make a complete commentary. The two authors have thus composed the work upon Malachi.

888 WATSON (THOMAS. Puritan). Notes on Malachy III. 8vo.

1682.

‘This would be a great find if we could only come at it, for Watson is one of the clearest and liveliest of Puritan authors. We fear we shall never see this commentary, for we have tried to obtain it, and tried in vain. May God bless this effort to assist his ministers in the study of the Old Testament.