TO THE STUDY OF THE

BOOKS OF THE NEW TESTAMENT:

BEING

AN EXPANSION OF LECTURES

DELIVERED IN THE

DIVINITY SCHOOL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF DUBLIN.

BY GEORGE SALMON, D.D., F.R.S.,

PROVOST OF TRINITY COLLEGE, DUBLIN ;

SOMETIME REGIUS PROFESSOR OF DIVINITY IN THE UNIVERSITY OF DUBLIN.

FOURTH EDITION.

LONDON:

JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET.

BY THE SAME AUTHOR.

THE INFALLIBILITY OF THE CHURCH:

Enurse of Lectures

DELIVERED IN THE

DIVINITY SCHOOL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF DUBLIN.

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Printed at THE UNIVERSITY PRESS, Dublin.

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PREFACE

TO THE FIRST EDITION.

THE

HE Lectures out of which the present volume has taken its origin were written some years ago, and did not aim at giving a complete or systematic account of the subjects with which they dealt. When I decided last year on sending them to the Press, I contemplated making no other change than that of altering the division into Lectures-the original division, of necessity, having mainly had regard to the length which it was convenient to deliver at one time. Accordingly, the first three Lectures of this volume contain, with but slight alterations, what was originally the introductory Lecture of my course. But as the printing went on I found additions necessary, partly in order to take notice of things that had been published since the delivery of the Lectures, and partly in order to include details which want of time had obliged me to omit, but which I was unwilling to pass unnoticed in my book. In this way I have been led on to re-write, and make additions (but without making any change in the style or in the arrangement), until I am now somewhat dismayed to find that the Lectures have swelled to two or three times their original bulk.

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