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simply tried to adopt the best reading, to give its due force to each
expression tense and particle, and to represent as exactly as it is at
all compatible with English idiom what St. Paul meant in the very way
in which he said it'.
To all workmen who labour in the epistles of Paul, we commend all or
each of these three works as tools that they will find of constant use.
Some Helpful Works on the Psalms
The well nigh universal appeal of the book of the Psalms makes any work
that opens up the teaching of these experimental and prophetic songs a useful
tool.
Among the smaller handbooks which we would suggest is:
The Psalms, translated from the Hebrew with notes chiefly critical and
exegetical, by W. Kay, D.D.
This book was published in Calcutta in 1863 and can only be obtained
second-hand. His translation is suggestive and his footnotes are generally
helpful and illuminating.
For a commentary that deals fairly fully with the Hebrew and devotes a
fair amount of space to analysis and textual matters, the student will find a
very useful tool in the:
Commentary on the Psalms, by E. W. Hengstenberg, translated by Rev.
John Thomson and Rev. Patrick Fairbairn, D.D.
A work more devotional in character is:
A Commentary on the Book of the Psalms, by the Right Rev. George Horne
published in 1852.
The point of view of this volume is given in the opening sentences of
the Preface.
`The Psalms are an epitome of the Bible, adapted to the purposes of
devotion. They treat occasionally of the creation and formation of the
world; the dispensations of Providence, and the economy of grace; the
transactions of the patriarchs; the exodus of the children of Israel,
etc, etc'.
Quoting from Hooker, the Preface says:
`Heroical magnanimity, exquisite justice, grave moderation, exact
wisdom, repentance unfeigned, unwearied patience, the mysteries of God,
the sufferings of Christ, the terrors of wrath, the comforts of grace,
the works of Providence over this world, and the promised joys of that
world which is to come; all good necessarily to be either known, or
done, or had, this one celestial fountain yieldeth'.
The writer gives a useful table of Psalms classified under their
several subjects.
Another very useful companion to the Psalms is: