Excerpt from An Expositor's Note-Book: Or, Brief Essays on Obscure or Misread Scriptures It has pleased God to grant me, for twenty years, a more quiet and sequestered lot than that which falls to most teachers and servants of the Word. Those years, happily for me, have been spent mainly in studying, translating, and expounding the Holy Scriptures; in forming an acquaintance with the large and various library we commonly call the Bible. 'The Book' is indeed 'the Book of books' in more senses than one. For not only does it include within one pair of covers an immense number of books written by men of the most diverse gifts and dissimilar conditions, during two thousand changeful years; but these books, by virtue of the lofty themes of which they treat, and of that Divine inspiration which gives life to every page, invite and repay study as none others do. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.