ON THE NEW TESTAMENT, BY DR. HERMANN OLSHAUSEN, PROFESSOR OF THEOLOGY IN THE UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN. CONTINUED AFTER HIS DEATH BY DR. JOHN HENRY AUGUSTUS EBRARD AND LIC. AUGUSTUS WIESINGER. TRANSLATED FROM THE GERMAN FOR CLARK'S FOREIGN AND THEOLOGICAL LIBRARY REVISED AFTER THE LATEST GERMAN EDITION, BY A. C. KENDRICK, D.D., PROFESSOR OF GREEK IN THE UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER. VOL. V. NEW YORK: SHELDON, BLAKEMAN & CO., 115 NASSAU STREET. 1858. (1280) Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1857, by SHELDON, BLAKEMAN & CO., In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of PREFATORY NOTE. THE Commentary of Olshausen was carried through the Gospels, the Acts, and the Epistles to the Romans, Corinthians, Galatians, Colossians, Ephesians, and Thessalonians, when it was arrested by his death. The task of completing it was assigned to his successor and former pupil, Dr. Ebrard, who associated with himself Aug. Wiesinger, also a former pupil of Olshausen, and like Ebrard, sympathising thoroughly in the evangelical views of his venerated teacher. Ebrard has completed the Exposition of Hebrews and the Revelation; Wiesinger, of Philippians, the Pastoral Epistles, James, and 1 Peter, and is engaged on the other Catholic Epistles. Both are men of sound evangelical views, and thorough biblical scholarship; and if they want something of that depth of spiritual insight, and high genius which lend such a charm to the writings. of Olshausen, they are by no means his inferiors in soundness of judgment, and exegetical acumen. If they enter less into extended discussions of topics, they will be found, on the contrary, more full and satisfactory to the philologist. Wiesinger is, indeed, sometimes over-minute and prolix, and the Editor has occasionally condensed his statements, and cancelled repetitions, without, however, sacrificing any valuable thought. On the whole both his work and that of Ebrard are marked by great learning, soundness, and ability, and being carried out on the plan and in the spirit of their predecessor's, they will constitute an entire Commentary on the New Testament, unique in its place, and of inestimable value to the Biblical student. |