Notice of Recent Publications [pp. 443-477]

Notices8 of Recent Publications.
and they had long been a favorite subject of study with him; "for years
he seldom took a journey without some volume on the epistles in his
hand." This large and elegant volume is full of evidence in the
author's own peculiar vein, that he has brought to his task a generous
enthusiasm, as well as patient and continued toil. It cannot be said
that the interpretation of the epistle is essentially furthered in the way
of textual criticism, philological exegesis, or archmological illustration.
His forte lies in theological and homiletic exposition. The doctrinal
discussions opened by the epistle to the Romans are greatly to his
taste, and offer familiar themes of thought. Upon these he enlarges
freely and fully, and his trumpet utters no uncertain sound. The
reader of this Commentary is likewise reminded at every turn of the
practised skill and power which has given its author such celebrity in
the pulpit by the many sided and impressive applications which are
made of the truth to the heart and life. The doctrinal and practical
remarks, which regularly follow the exposition of each section, are full
of pith and marrow, sometimes recalling the quaintness of the old writers, and always abounding in pertinent and suggestive thoughts. The
frequent and sometimes extended citations, which are introduced here
as in the "-Studies in the Book of Psalms," may be thought by some
needlessly to encumber the pages, but will be welcomed by others as
presenting in brief compass, and bringing within easy reach, the
opinions or striking thoughts of some of the best writers on this epistle
in all past ages.
Episcopaliarnismra in three parts. By B. F. Barrett. Philadelphia: J. B.
Lippincott & Co. 1871.
Mr. Barrett is a leading Swedenborgian writer. This little volume
is intended as a reply to a pamphlet by Bishop Burgess on Swedenborgianism. He deals with this in three chapters, under the some what sensational heads. 1. "Episcopalianism in its own dress." 2
"Episcopalianism in borrowed Robes." 3. "Episcopalianism at the
Confessional."
The Pharaoh of the Exodus identified in the myth of Adonis. By the
Rev. John Campbell, M.A. 8vo, pp. 32.
The identification proposed to be established in this learned and in genious paper is so far as we know original with its author. The
Adonis beloved by Venus, and slain by the wild boar, is Pharaoh pulr suing the children of Israel and drowned in the Red Sea. The Syrian
women weeping for Tammuz, Ezek. viii. 14, perpetuated the universal
grief of Egypt, when not only the monarch with the flower of his
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