Adolph Saphir

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This book has been written with the hope that it may help the general reader to grasp the arguments of the Epistle and to feel their force. This last important end is not very well served by the type of treatise that scholars write for scholars. These are indeed valuable for aiding those who teach others. For such the minute examination of verses, phrases, words, parts of speech is helpful. But the plain reader is embarrassed by technical disquisitions and the elaborate weighing of all possible or impossible meanings, and is left barren by quotations from ancient writers in dead languages. For the readers here in view it has seemed more useful to give usually conclusions reached as to the meaning of the writer rather than the processes and grounds of the conclusions. - Foreword.