PREFACE
BY THE GENERAL EDITOR.

The General Editor of The Cambridge Bible for Schools thinks it right to say that he does not hold himself responsible either for the interpretation of particular passages which the Editors of the several Books have adopted, or for any opinion on points of doctrine that they may have expressed. In the New Testament more especially questions arise of the deepest theological import, on which the ablest and most conscientious interpreters have differed and always will differ. His aim has been in all such cases to leave each Contributor to the unfettered exercise of his own judgment, only taking care that mere controversy should as far as possible be avoided. He has contented himself chiefly with a careful revision of the notes, with pointing out omissions, with

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suggesting occasionally a reconsideration of some question, or a fuller treatment of difficult passages, and the like.

Beyond this he has not attempted to interfere, feeling it better that each Commentary should have its own individual character, and being convinced that freshness and variety of treatment are more than a compensation for any lack of uniformity in the Series.

Deanery, Peterborough.

CONTENTS.

JEREMIAH.

I. Introduction. Pages

Chapter I. Life and Times of Jeremiah ix—xxv

Chapter II. Character and Style of the Book... xxv—xxx

Chapter III. Contents and Arrangement xxx—xxxviii

II. Text And Notes i—352

LAMENTATIONS.

I. Introduction.

Chapter I. Name, Position, Date and Structure

of the Book 353—35S

Chapter II. Authorship of the Book 355—358

Chapter III. Subject-matter and Purpose of the

Book „ 359, 360

II. Text And Notes 361—391

Appendix.

Note I. Traditions relating to Jeremiah 393—395

Note II. Other Prophecies ascribed to Jeremiah.. 395, 396

Note III. Jeremiah as a Type of Christ 396

Note IV. Approximation to a chronological Ar-

rangement of the Contents of the Book 396

Index 397—404

Map Of Jerusalem.

*,* The Text adopted in this Edition is that of Dr Scrivener's

Cambridge Paragraph Bible. A few variations from the ordi-

nary Text, chiefly in the spelling of certain words, and in the

use of italics, will be noticed. For the principles adopted by

Dr Scrivener as regards the printing of the Text see his In-

troduction to the Paragraph Bible, published by the Cambridge

University Press.

"It is difficult to conceive any situation more painful than that of a great man, condemned to watch the lingering agony of an exhausted country, to tend it during the alternate fits of stupefaction and raving which precede its dissolution, and to see the symptoms of vitality disappear one by one, till nothing is left but coldness, darkness, and corruption."

Lord Macau Lay.