BY S S. SCHMUCKER, D. D. Professor of Theology in the Theol. Sem. of the General Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Second Edition. ANDOVER: PRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY GOULD AND NEWMAN, AT THE CODMAN PRESS. NEW-YORK: GRIFFIN, WILCOX AND CO. 1836. BT15 57266 Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1836, by GOULD AND NEWMAN, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of Massachusetts. گوشت TRANSLATOR'S PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION. The work which is here presented to the public, is the result of the joint labour of two of the most eminent divines of the present age. Theophilus Christian Storr,' formerly Theological Professor in the University of Tübingen, was a very distinguished interpreter of the Holy Volume, and one of the most triumphant combatants of that fashionable philosophy with which Europe has been deluged. His numerous philological and exegetical works rank among the first critical productions of Germany, and few men have attained such profundity of erudition, and at the same time preserved so humble and faithful an adherence to the doctrines of the Bible, as are displayed in the literary and theological career of Dr. Storr. In his earlier life, after he had acquired a profound and critical knowledge of the original languages of Scripture and the cognate dialects, he confined himself for some time to the study of the Holy Volume to the exclusion of all other theological works. Accordingly his various productions display an extraordinary familiarity with the Bible, and in reference especially to Biblical learning, might with truth be applied to him what Casaubon said of his friend the great Salmasius, that he was "ad miraculum doctus." Nor is, in general, his colleague and commentator Dr. C. C. Flatt at all his inferior. These distinguished champions of the truth sustained the cause of orthodoxy for upwards of twenty years, and published from time to time, the most able replies to the several systems of infidelity which sprung up in Europe. Having been harassed by metaphysical and speculative and infidel systems of pretended Christianity, they were taught the absolute necessity of building their faith exclusively on the word of God; and the present work is purely of this Biblical 1 Dr. Storr was born at Stuttgard, Sept. 18, 1746. Died Jan. 17, 1805. |