Excerpt from Strictures: On "the Doctrine of Sacrifice Deduced From the Scriptures"

I wish to add, that scarcely any book was consulted by me in writing the greater part of these Strictures, except the Hebrew Bible, with a Lexicon, the Greek Testament, (scholz's edition, ) Vols. I. And II. Of Alford's Greek Testa ment, Schmidt's Concordance to the Greek Testament, the LXX. (occasionally), a Concordance to the English Bible, and an English Bible with marginal references: afterwards, Outram's classical work contributed to the completeness of the tables, a book which is somewhat dis appointing on the significance of the Levitical rites. I have thus confined myself to such authorities as Mr. Maurice cannot well dispute, and such as will commend themselves to the largest circle of readers. What I assert is, that in his Sermons on Sacrifice he has speculated on Scripture instead of examining it, that in almost every instance where he has professed to call the Greek text to his aid, he has shewn himself out of gear for dealing with ques tions of scholarship and that these Sermons afford de oisive proof that he is by no means a safe guide in the in terpretation of Scripture. There are also indications of his views having undergone some slight mod ifications during the composition of the series which fact implies that he began to write on the subject without having studied it carefully, and this I suppose to be what he wishes to intimate when he claims for his book an un learned and merely practical character.

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