THE ACTS OF THE APOSTLES EXPLAINED BY JOSEPH ADDISON ALEXANDER IN TWO VOLUMES VOLUME I NEW YORK CHARLES SCRIBNER 377 BROADWAY 1857 ENTERED, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1857, by JOSEPH ADDISON ALEXANDER, In the Clerk's Office of the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey. JOHN F. TROW, PRINTER, STEREOTYPER, AND ELECTROTYPER, 877 & 879 Broadway, New York. PREFACE. THE materials of this book were collected in a course of academical instruction, and prepared for publication, in the first instance, with a view to the peculiar wants of ministers and students. But after the first chapter was in type, the writer was induced to recommence the work upon a new plan, in the hope of making it more generally useful, by the reduction of its size, and the omission of all matter supposed to be interesting only to professional or educated readers. This will account for the prominence given to the English version, the exclusion (for the most part) of the Greek text, and the absence of any detailed reference to other writers. It will be found, however, that the constant subject of the exposition is the inspired original, and that one of its main objects is to perfect the translation, so as to place the English reader as nearly as possible on the same footing with the student of the Greek 5276 .118 |
