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THE

BIBLE STUDENT'S HANDBOOK

AN INTRODUCTION TO THE STUDY OF

THE HOLY SCRIPTURES.

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THE

BIBLE STUDENT'S HANDBOOK

AN INTRODUCTION TO THE STUDY OF

THE HOLY SCRIPTURES;

AFFORDING A BRIEF ACCOUNT OF

THE VARIOUS BOOKS OF THE OLD AND NEW TESTAMENTS,

Their Writers, their Principal Versions, Ancient and Modern, and
the Evidences of their Truth and Authenticity.

WITH A SYNOPSIS OF THE

Life and Work of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ,

AND NOTES AND REMARKS ON THE

HISTORY, CHRONOLOGY, ETHNOLOGY, BIOGRAPHY, GEOGRAPHY
ZOOLOGY, BOTANY, MINERALOGY, SCIENCE, MUSIC, MANNERS,
CUSTOMS, AND NATIONAL AND SOCIAL LIFE

EMBODIED AND DESCRIBED IN HOLY WRIT.

"Understandest thou what thou readest?"-ACTS viii. 30.

LONDON:

WARD, LOCK & CO., WARWICK HOUSE,

SALISBURY Square.

101. i. 669.

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PREFACE.

ALTHOUGH from time to time many large and comparatively costly works have been put forth with the view of aiding Bible students of all classes in the comprehension and interpretation of Holy Writ, no attempt has hitherto been made to supply a Handbook to the Bible which, while it touches on everything that is treated in larger volumes of a similar class and character, is sufficiently brief and portable to meet the requirements of those who have but little time at their command for studies of this or any other kind, and to suit the limited means of others who have but little money that they can afford to put aside for the purchase of books, and more especially those which are intended to explain and elucidate the varied contents of the Book of Books. There are, it is true, works of this kind that may be acquired by the outlay of a few shillings, but none that can be obtained, as this may be, by the expenditure of a few pence. On the score of cheapness, then, this book may claim to be unique, and this, it is earnestly hoped, may tend to bring it into the hands of many who may be unable to purchase more expensive works of like nature, and thus fail to profit by the light which they undoubtedly throw on the purpose and meaning of Holy Scripture.

But that it is low in price, and therefore within the reach of all who may care to make it their own, is not its only merit. It contains, though necessarily in a condensed form, all that it is

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