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Excerpt from Hermeneutical Manual: Or Introduction to the Exegetical Study of the Scriptures of the New Testament
A work that is really fitted in the present day to serve the purpose of a proper guide-book, must undoubtedly so far possess a scientific character, that it shall exhibit an acquaintance with the several branches of learning and knowledge, which illustrate the language and structure, the incidental allusions, and the main theme of the sacred books, and apply what it may thence appro priate in an orderly and judicious manner. If deficient in this, it fails in the fundamentals of the subject. But it should be allowed to move with some freedom in the selection of its topics, and in the relative care and consideration that it expends upon some of them, as compared with others. It cannot otherwise occupy, in a serviceable manner, the intermediate ground, that properly belongs to it, between Lexicons, Grammars, Books of Antiqui ties, etc., on the one hand, and formal commentaries on the other - turning, as it should do, to such account the materials furnished by the former class of productions, as may aid and qualify the student for an independent and discriminating use of the latter. This is the peculiar province and object of a Her meneutical work on Scripture, and that will always come prao tically the nearest to the mark, which is the best fitted to place the student of Scripture in the position now indicated.
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