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THE POETICAL BOOKS
332. DURELL (D., D.D.)
Critical Remarks on the Books of Job, Prov., Psalms, Eccles., and
Canticles. 4to. Oxf.,
1772. 4/- to 6/-
A critic who is for ever mending the text, who contends for the modern
origin of Job, thinks the Canticles to be a love song, and considers the
imprecatory Psalms to be ebullitions of passion, is not one whom our
readers need consult.
333. HOLDEN
(LAWRENCE). Paraphrase on the Books of Job, Psalms, Proverbs, and
Ecclesiastes, with Notes. 4 vols., 8vo. 1763. 5/-
An atrocious instance of bombastic verbosity. Job ii. 2 is thus expanded:
—"Heaven and earth's great Lord and guardian, the instant Satan
appeared observed, and thus demanded of him: 'from what quarter proceedest
thou? or in what district, and to what purpose hast thou lately employed
thy perverted, and subtle, wicked abilities and arts?' To whom the
destroyer answers: 'my last station, or rather, unsettled, wandering
motion, has been upon earth; various districts whereof I have made short
visits to, being sometimes with the inhabitants of one region or climate,
sometimes with those of another.'" Paraphrases generally mean the text
padded out with superfluous words, and this is an emphatic instance.
334. KITTO. Daily Bible Illustrations, "Job
and the Poetical Books." (See
No. 41.)
Worthy of attentive reading.
335. LEIGH (EDWARD). See under Whole
Bible, No. 44.
336.
WILCOCKS (THOMAS, A.M. Puritan. 1549—1608). The
Works of that Reverend and Learned Divine, Mr. Thomas Wilcocks, Minister of
God's Word: containing an Exposition upon the whole booke of David's
Psalmes, Solomon's Proverbs, the Canticles, and part of the eighth chapter
of St. Paul's
Epistle to the Romans. Folio. Lond.,
1589, 1620 and 1624. 9/- to 12/-
Very old. The notes are brief, but furnish many
hints for sermons.
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