Excerpt from The Gospel History, Vol. 1: A Harmony and Exposition of the Christian Scriptures; The Gospels In this way, I have endeavoured to render the Gospel history still more attractive to general readers, by enabling them to gather explanations of the incidents and expressions, as they pass along through the account itself. I have felt that most Paraphrases have failed here, by using too many words to convey the ideas, and expanding into too minute explanation and illus tration; thus exhausting at once the patience of ...
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Excerpt from The Gospel History, Vol. 1: A Harmony and Exposition of the Christian Scriptures; The Gospels In this way, I have endeavoured to render the Gospel history still more attractive to general readers, by enabling them to gather explanations of the incidents and expressions, as they pass along through the account itself. I have felt that most Paraphrases have failed here, by using too many words to convey the ideas, and expanding into too minute explanation and illus tration; thus exhausting at once the patience of the reader and the force of the sentiment, in dull prolixity. They should rather state the exact thought in a clear, pointed expression, and only suggest the collateral ideas as involved in the principal one. That I have not myself sometimes failed in this respect, or that I may not occasionally have been betrayed into the opposite errors, of leaving too much for the reader's mind to carry out, or even presenting a thought too quaintly, I dare not aver; I. Can only say, that I have carefully weighed each word and sentence in employing it, and trust that a repeated perusal will generally justify my phraseology. There was danger, on the other hand, of making the interpretation too bald and meagre, by stiffly adhering to the mere language of the text: this I have endea voured to avoid by moulding it over in a style more familiar and flowing, at the same time adding such explanatory and connective clauses as seemed requisite to give the ideas and expressions their due force, distinctness and symmetry. These supplementary clauses are so adjusted and distinguished, that the reader may omit them, when he wishes to follow the explicit statements of the text. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... 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.
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