Albemarle Street, 

 March, 1871, 



MR. MURRAY'S 



mi 0f ffilarlis in ^rtparatian. 



THE NEW BIBLE COMMENTARY. 



THE HOLY BIBLE, 



ACCORDING TO THE AUTHORIZED VERSION, A.D. 1611. 



With an Explanatory and Critical Commentary and a Revision of the 



Translation, 



BY BISHOPS AND OTHER CLERGY OF THE ANGLICAN CHURCH. 



EDITED BY 



F. C. COOK, M.A., Canon of Exeter, 



Preacher at Lincoln's Inn, and Chaplain in Ordinary to the Queen. 



Vol. I.— THE PENTATEUCH (in Two Parts), Medium 8vo. 30s. 



THE want of a plain Explanatory Gommentarij on the Bible more com- 

 plete and accurate than any now accessible to English readers has been long felt 

 by men of education. In 1863 the Speaker of the House of Commons consulted some of 

 the Bishops as to the best way of supplying the deficiency ; and the Archbishop of York 

 undertook to organise a plan for producing such a work, by the co-operation of several 

 Scholars selected for their Biblical learning. 



The great object of such a Commentary must be to put the general reader in full 

 possession of whatever information may be requisite to enable him to understand the 

 Holy Scriptures, to give him, as far as possible, the same advantages as the Scholar, 

 and to sup]ily him with satisfactory answers to objections resting upon misrepresenta- 

 tion of the Text. 



Special care is taken to furnish in all cases amended translations of passages proved to 

 be incorrect in our Version ; but the Comment will be chiefly explanatory, presenting, 

 in a concise and readable form, the results of learned investigations, carried on in this 

 and other countries during the last half century. 



VOL. I.— THE PENTATEUCH. 



Part I 1 GENESIS— Bishop of Ely. 



( EXODUS— Canon Cook and Rev. Samuel Clark. 

 LEVITICUS— Rev. Samuel Clark. 

 Part H. \ NUMBERS— ) Rev. T. E. Espin and 



( DEUTERONOMY— \ Ri.f\'. J. F. Thrupp. 



