The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1872-10-30
.. COMMENTARY ON PAU1's Er1srhE TO
THE HEDREws.- Rev. w. 8. Plumer.
D. d., LII D. Anson. d. F. Randolph &
o. Nav Ynrk 1870

OO.s NOW 1Ofk, 2ofG. 4,
fhis commentary has just made its
appearance in royal octave. covering $50
pages; uniform in size. letter press and
binding with DR.. Plumer's Commentary
on the Epistie to the Romans. Both
commentaries ara works Of the highest
merit, combining oil tho benefits of criti-
OF dootriDal and practical godliuess.
As q ccmmeptator, DR.. Plumer hna
struck out new method of exposition.
1t ia urigiusf and hispwn. He expounde,
analyses aud applies the truth. Tholock
and Olshausen, of the German commen-
tators, are good cxpositorB of the book
OF Hebrews, but they are critical. Tur-
ner. Paterson, Stuart, Scott. and n host
OF English, American and Scottish scho-
iars. ars learned and good, bnt often too
critical for the Ordinary reader. Owen
ls critical, elaborate, exhaustive. and diff
fuse, and on Hebrews, rs in oil his
other writings, not suited to the ordinary
reader. Robert Hall WIS perhaps more
sewers than jnst when he said. John
Ovens writings nre continent Of mud. I"
Still, it must be admitted that, as
general rule; two Glasses of writer's must
he read and studied in order 10 profit by
the perusal Of any books of Scripture;
we must study the critic to reach the
meaning of the text, and we must study
the sermonizer to get at the practical in
1luence which the truth OF revelation il
designed to exercise on the heart and
life. While, then. one class OF men
write for the heads aud another for tho
hearts of their readers, Dr. Plumer
writes for both. He writes with all the
power and wisdom of scholar, and all
the Houl.stirring earnestness Of Chris
tian. These peculiarities of DR.. Plumer
as a commentator, render it unnecessary
for any other man to write on tho books
of Scripture which have engaged hia
pen. Houce it is that his grent work on
the Psalms of David and his Treatise on
the Epistie to the Romans are not only,
like the work before us, exhaustive, but
they give in their expositions the OPT
MONS of all commentators who arc worth
reading. Then they give his own views,
and eaoh section closes with o series of
doctrinal and practical observations.
His commentaries are, therefore, full of
erudition, deep thought and practical
power. The bearing Of every truth he
enuncintesu upon the heart and life of the
reader. is one of the prominent and lead
ing excellencies of DR.. Plumer's method
Ot e1pouDdlnS scripture.
The volume on the Hebrews is his last
and certainly one of his ablest efforts az
u scholar, an author and divine. It is
book suited alike to the family, the
congregational and theological library,
aud we'll worthy of q place in them all.
The student will profit by its learning
the minister by its e1positions and the
private Christian by its pointed and
heart searching application of truth.
Few writer's i'll this or any country
have boon SO laborious and SO successful
in the domain of pructical theology as
DR.. Plumer. In addition to the three
trestses named above, he has writtcn u
masterly work OIL the Sinsic Code, enti.
tied s'The Law of God;" another, enti-
"Vital Godliness;" another, "The Rock
of Salvation" and treatise OH Provl-
depce, entitled 'Jehovah-Jireh"
Besides these ho has written severai
smaller books of great merit; aud. ns a
America. Then, with all the labor of his
Seminary ut Columbia, s. o., during the
bath day. often 100 to $50 miles from
Columbia.
Ho has spent a long, laborious and
useful life. and when taken from the
church on earth, in his writings he will
still spenk for the Lord and Master.
We doubt not his many admirers in
Augusta will hail the appearance Of his
Commentary on the Hebrews with great
dclight.--Augusta Chronicle and Sentinel
AIERCY 10 READERs-'fhe Philadel-
phi0 Star hits thu nail on the head in
saying that ono of the secrets of SUCCESS
fnl journalism, III these progressive days,
is to give no more extended notice t.
matters than persons interested in them
can find time to rend. There arc very
few men who hnve either the time or the
patience to wade through column of
printed matter, tho substance of which
could he satisfactorily presented in one.
fourth the eraco.
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