The Cambridge Bible for Schools
and Colleges.

GENERAL EDITOR FOR THE OLD TESTAMENT:-
A. F. KIRKPATRICK, D.D.

THE REV. J. SKINNER, D.D.

PROFESSOR OF OLD TESTAMENT EXEGESIS IN THE PRESBYTERIAN
COLLEGE, LONDON.

Edited FOR THE SYNDICS OF THE UNIVERSITY Press.

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Cambridge:

AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS.

1896

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PREFACE

BY THE

GENERAL EDITOR FOR THE OLD TESTAMENT.

THE present General Editor for the Old Testament
in the Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
desires to say that, in accordance with the policy of
his predecessor the Bishop of Worcester, he does not
hold himself responsible for the particular interpreta-
tions adopted or for the opinions expressed by the
editors of the several Books, nor has he endeavoured
to bring them into agreement with one another. It
is inevitable that there should be differences of
opinion in regard to many questions of criticism and
interpretation, and it seems best that these differences
should find free expression in different volumes.
has endeavoured to secure, as far as possible, that
the general scope and character of the series should
be observed, and that views which have a reasonable
claim to consideration should not be ignored, but he
has felt it best that the final responsibility should, in
general, rest with the individual contributors.

CAMBRIDGE,

August, 1896.

A. F. KIRKPATRICK.

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