Bible dictionary for the use of Bible classes, schools and families .. . e Church rendered the preparationof such a work almost imperative. While the compiler has been indebted to the labours of IV PREFACE. his predecessors, and particularly to the writers in KittosCyclopaedia of Biblical Literature, he has expressed thewhole in his own language. Brevity and condensation have been consulted, but it ishoped not at the expense of intelligibility; and to keepthe volume within reasonable limits many scriptural namesof persons and places have been omitted, in reference towhich no information was re
Bible dictionary for the use of Bible classes, schools and families .. . e Church rendered the preparationof such a work almost imperative. While the compiler has been indebted to the labours of IV PREFACE. his predecessors, and particularly to the writers in KittosCyclopaedia of Biblical Literature, he has expressed thewhole in his own language. Brevity and condensation have been consulted, but it ishoped not at the expense of intelligibility; and to keepthe volume within reasonable limits many scriptural namesof persons and places have been omitted, in reference towhich no information was requisite or even possible. With the humblest pretensions, the compiler has earnestlycoveted the single merit of furnishing for those whoseopportunities for consulting larger and more learned workswere limited, a simple and well adapted guide to the under-standing of many things, on which a Biblo reader woulddesire information. Should it be found, on trial, to answer its purpose, thelabour of its preparation will be amply compensated. Editor of the Board of 12
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