SHAILER MATHEWS, GENERAL EDITOR PROFESSOR OF HISTORICAL AND COMPARATIVE THEOLOGY THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO GALATIANS BENJAMIN W. BACON THE BIBLE FOR HOME AND SCHOOL COMMENTARY ON THE EPISTLE OF PAUL TO THE BY BENJAMIN W. BACON, D.D., LL.D. BUCKINGHAM PROFESSOR OF NEW TESTAMENT CRITICISM AND New York THE MACMILLAN COMPANY 1909 All rights reserved COPYRIGHT, 1909, BY THE MACMILLAN COMPANY. Set up and electrotyped. Published September, 1909. Norwood Press J. 8. Cushing Co. - Berwick & Smith Co. GENERAL INTRODUCTION THE BIBLE FOR HOME AND SCHOOL is intended to place the results of the best modern biblical scholarship at the disposal of the general reader. It does not seek to duplicate other commentaries to which the student must turn. Its chief characteristics are (a) its rigid exclusion of all processes, both critical and exegetical, from its notes; (b) its presupposition and its use of the assured results of historical investigation and criticism wherever such results throw light on the biblical text; (c) its running analysis both in text and comment; (d) its brief explanatory notes adapted to the rapid reader; (e) its thorough but brief Introductions; (f) its use of the Revised Version of 1881, supplemented with all important renderings in other versions. Biblical science has progressed rapidly during the past few years, but the reader still lacks a brief, comprehensive commentary that shall extend to him in usable form material now at the disposition of the student. It is hoped that in this series the needs of intelligent Sunday School teachers have been met, as well as those of clergymen and lay readers, and that in scope, purpose, and loyalty to the Scriptures as a foundation of Christian thought and life, its volumes will stimulate the intelligent use of the Bible in the home and the school. |