A REVISED TRANSLATION WITH INTRODUCTION AND COMMENTARY. BY JOSEPH FRANCIS THRUPP, M.A. VICAR OF BARRINGTON, LATE FELLOW OF TRINITY COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE, AND USE OF THE PSALMS" &c. MACMILLAN AND CO. Cambridge and London. 1862. 100.0. 53. PREFACE. THE object of this volume is to unfold the meaning of one of the least appreciated portions of Holy Scripture. It is hoped that neither the necessary references to the original Hebrew, nor the discussion, which can be passed over at pleasure, of the principal counter-theories of interpretation, will render it less acceptable to the majority of readers. It seemed undesirable, in the interest of the truth, to leave room for suspicion that the traditional interpretation of the Song, howsoever it might have ministered to the edification of nearly fifty generations of Christians, would not be borne out by the results of the investigations of modern scholarship. I have therefore sought throughout to build on the surest attainable foundation. That I have written to the best of my own judgment, not defending received |