LIBRARY

Prof. Syon

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In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of Massach

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PREFACE

A PRINCIPAL object of Notes on the Script them more intelligible, and consequently m moting the spiritual welfare of men. As t the holy Scriptures, though a revelation fron to make us "wise unto salvation," need sor thoroughly understood, it may be well to sl are not as readily and as well understood as on ordinary topics.

1. The Bible is a very ancient book. It v turies ago, in a part of the world very diffe by men, the manners and customs of whose different from ours. If, then, we have no k countries in which they lived, and of which frequent mention; if we have no acquaintanc times in which they wrote; if we are ignor social customs with which those writers w not fully understand their writings. We m knowledge, understand much of what they h will also be wholly obscure, and much wi hended; and much, that is truly valuable and our notice. Hence the necessity and the va information respecting the geography and mentioned in the Scriptures, and pointing c and customs differing from our own. Thes ancient book, or to any book written in a for