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bloomfield's recensio synoptica annotations sacrjs.*
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THE MONTHLY REPOSITORY AND REVIEW . NEW SERIES , No . XXVII .
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MARCH , 1829 .
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The second and concluding part of Mr . Bloom field ' s extensive and important work has now been some time before the public , and we feel that we have too long delayed the notice which it justly demands , and which the readers of our remarks on the former portion would expect . An advertisement prefixed to the Fourth Volume assigns reasons for some alterations in the plan , which are there explained , and which , though partially
beneficial , we are : sorry that we cannot on the whole approve . Their general tendency is stated by the author to be to render the work " less of a synopsis or corpus annotationum , more of a recensio or critical digest . " Now , we apprehend that the value set upon the work by judicious readers , will not depend chiefly on its exhibiting the opinions or reasonings of the learned editor , however worthy they may be of respectful attention ; but on its supplying them with a faithful synopsis of the interpretations of Scripture
most deserving of being known and considered , which hitherto have been only to be found scattered through numerous and costly volumes , altogether inaccessible to many who ought to be acquainted with them . That in giving such a synopsis he should aim at conciseness , and suppress without scruple superfluous or unimportant matter , is surely to be expected ; that he should add from the abundant stores of his own . learning such illustrations and explanations as appear to him useful , is an additional
claim on our gratitude ; and his own judgment respecting the soundness and value of any thing which he lays before us , deserves to be carefully weighed , though it ought by no means to be received with implicit deference . But it is much to be feared , that in attempting to give his work more the character of a recensio , he has often only allowed his readers to become acquainted with the curious and interesting annotations of learned and judicious commentators , as represented in the words of one who is prejudiced against them , and designs to oppose and censure them . We cannot
* ReceBsio Synoptica Annotations Sacrae , &c . By the Rev . S . T . Bloom field , M . A ., of Sidney College ; Cambridge , Vicar oT Risbrooke , in Rutland , and Resident Curate of Tujrbv . Leicestershire . Part If . Vols . IV . —VII .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1829, page unpag, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2570/page/1/
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