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JOHN BROWN, D.D.,

PROFESSOR OF EXEGETICAL THEOLOGY TO THE UNITED PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH,
AND SENIOR PASTOR OF THE UNITED PRESBYTERIAN CONGREGATION,
BROUGHTON PLACE, EDINBurgh.

EDITED BY

DAVID SMITH, D.D.,

BIGGAR

VOL. I.

EDINBURGH: WILLIAM OLIPHANT AND CO.
LONDON: HAMILTON, ADAMS, AND CO.

MDCCCLXII.

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JANET HAMILTON, JOHN, ISABELLA CRANSTON,

WILLIAM NIMMO, JANE EWING, AND ALEXANDER CRUM,

CHILDREN OF THE LATE JOHN BROWN, D.D.,

THESE VOLUMES OF EXPOSITORY DISCOURSES,

BY THEIR LATE VENERABLE AND BELOVED PARENT,

ARE MOST RESPECTFULLY AND AFFECTIONATELY INSCRIBED,

BY THEIR FRIEND AND KINSMAN,

THE EDITOR.

PREFACE.

It is with feelings of no ordinary satisfaction, though mingled with melancholy, that the Editor presents to the Christian public these two volumes-the last of a series of Biblical Expositions by his beloved relative, the late Rev. JOHN BROWN, D.D. Though published three years after his lamented decease, the work is in no respects, except the date, a posthumous work. With the exception of the Exposition of the Epistle to the Galatians, it was written before any of the others; and having been several times read to the students in the Theological Hall, in the course of Dr Brown's prelections as Professor of Exegetical Theology to the United Presbyterian Church, it was subjected to repeated careful revision, besides being enriched by numerous critical and illustrative notes. So thoroughly prepared, indeed, was it for publication, that he had carefully paragraphed it, drawn out the table of contents, and marked on the margin various directions to the printer. The only thing that was not done, was the distinguishing what portions of the additional matter should be embodied in the text, and what should go into notes, a want which the Editor has endeavoured, to the best of his judgment, to supply. Had Dr Brown, indeed, been spared to carry the work through the press himself, there is little doubt that, in the course of printing, corrections and additions might have been made, which, though not materially altering its character, might have rendered it still more complete. The Editor, however, reckoned it a sacred duty to change nothing, not even a word, which was not obviously a lapsus pennæ, or which did not seem absolutely necessary to clear away an obscurity, and this very rarely, indeed, occurred. He men

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