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JOEL
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CHANDLER (SAMUEL, D.D.) A Paraphrase and Critical Commentary on
Joel. 4to. Lond., 1735.
2/6.
Chandler
makes very few remarks of a spiritual kind, but explains the letter of the
word with considerable skill. In writing upon Joel he does not appear to
the same advantage as in his “Life
of David.” He does
not effect much in clearing up the “things hard to be
understood” in the prophet, and he is of the old broad school.
834. HUGHES (JOSEPH,
B.A.) The Prophecy of Joel. The Hebrew Text metrically arranged, with a New
Translation and Critical Notes. Fcap. 8vo. 2/6. Lond., Bagsters.
A purely literary treatise, useful to Hebraists only.
835. POCOCK (EDWARD, D.D.) A Commentary on Joel. Works, vol. I.
Folio. Oxf, 1691. [The
same volume contains his commentaries on Micah and Malachi.]
Full of antique learning. Holds a high place among the older comments, but
will never again be popular.
836. ROWLEY (ADAM CLARKE, M.A.) Joel. Metrical Translation. Sq.
8vo. Lond., Hamilton.
1867. S. 1/6.
The translation has been carefully executed. The notes are illustrative and
literary only; they do not profess to open up the moral and spiritual
teaching of the prophet. Could Adam
Clarke rise from the dead, he would rejoice to find his
grandson following in his footsteps.
837. TOPSELL (EDWARD).
Times Lamentations; or, An Exposition on the Prophet Joel. 4to. Lond., 1599. 9/-
Among the old English commentaries
Topsell is the writer on
Joel. He has the usual force, homeliness, piety, and fullness of the
Puritan period.
838.
UDALL (JOHN). The true remedie
against Famine and Warres. Flue Sermons upon the first Chapter of the
prophesie of Joel. Lond.
12mo. 1586. 15/-
We gave so high a price for this small black
letter volume that we should like to make it profitable to our
brethren, and therefore we commend to the more starchy of them the
following extract, which will also serve to show how the old preachers
lashed with vigor the fashions of the times. Udall says: "For the feeding of our monstrous
humor of vanity, how many thousands of quarters of the finest wheat, which
God ordained for the food of man, are yearly converted into that most devilish device of starch.
A sin so abominable that it doth cry so loudly in the Lord's ears for
vengeance, as his justice must needs proceed against us for it, without
speedy repentance."
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