ference to every passage of the New Testament where the word is found. In this way the lexicon becomes almost a complete New Testament Concordance.

S. To bestow upon the interpretation of difficult passages all the attention which the limits of a lexicon permit; that thus it may in a ineasure supply the place of a more extended commentary upon the New Testament.

Such is the plan of the work. How far the author may be able to succeed in it, will belong to the theological public to judge.

V. Miscellaneous.

The Leipzig semi-annual Book-Catalogue of July 1, 1834, gives the titles of the following works as published in the first half of the present year.

1. BIBLIA HEBRAICA, ex recensione Habnii expressa. Praefatus est E. F. C. Rosennueller. Editio Stereotypa. Lips. Tauchnitz, large 12mo. Pr. 2 rixd. This is a corrected reprint of Hahn's Hebrew Bible, in a smaller form.

2. On Isaiah we find the following works: HITZIG, F. Der Prophet Jesaja, übersetzt und ausgelegt, pp. 650. ROSENMUELLER, Scholia in V. Test. P. III. Vol. III. Etiam sub tit. Jesajue Vatic. annot. perpet. illustr. Vol. III. ed. 3. This last is a new edition of Rosenmueller's third Vol. on Isaiah in his large work. It is not the Compeud, or smaller work.

3. The Epistle to the Romans is also the fruitful source of commentary: JAEGER, C. F. H. Der Lehrgehalt des RömerBriefs entwickelt, pp. 80. Tübingen. REICHE, Prof. in Göttingen, Versuch einer ausführlichen Erklärung des Briefes Pauli an die Römer, mit historischen Einleitungen und exegetischdogmatischen Excursen. 2 Bde. Price 4 rixd.

4. The Epistle to the Ephesians seems likewise at present to be the object of special attention in Germany, no less than three new commentaries upon it being announced, viz. HolzHAUSEN, Der Brief an die Epheser übersetzt und erklärt, pp. 220. Svo. MATTHIES Erklärung des Briefes Pauli an die Epheser, pp. 200. 8vo. RÜCKERT L. F. Der Brief Pauli an die Epheser erläutert und vertheidigt, pp. 312. 8vo.

5. KALKAR C. H. de Cantico Deborae, Jud. V. pp. 108. 8vo.

6. OLSHAUSEN Prof. H. (Königsb.) Wort der Verständigung über die Stellung des Evangeliums zu unserer Zeit, pp. 24. 8vo.

7. OLSHAUSEN Prof. J. (Kiel,) Zur Topographie des alten Jerusalem, pp. 84. 8vo.

8. ORIGINIS Opera Omnia, ed. De La Rue, denuo rec. C. H. E. Lommatzsch, Tom. I-III. Berl.

9. RHEINWALD, Prof. De pseudodoctoribus Colossensibus, Comm. exegetico-bist. pp. 20. 4to.

10. SCHNECKENBURGER M. Ueber den Ursprung des ersten kanonischen Evangeliums; pp. 176. 8vo. Stuttg.

11. SCHNEIDER P. J. Biblisch-geschichtliche Darstellung der Hebräischen Musik, pp. 120. 8vo. Bonn.

12. SCHOTT und WINZER, Commentarii in Epistolas N. T. Vol. I.-Etiam sub titulo, Epist. Pauli ad Thess. et Gal. comment. perpet. illustr. H. A. Schott, pp. 632, 8vo. Leipz.

13. FREYTAG, G. W. Lexicon Arabico-Latinum, Tom. III. Sect. 1. i. e. the first part of the last volume.-Also, Chrestomathia Arabica grammatica-historica in usum schol. ex codicis ineditis conscripta: pp. 221, 8vo. Bonn.

14. GESENIUS, de Bar Alio et Bar Bahlulo, lexicographis Syro-Arabicis ineditis. pp. 68. 4to.-The eleventh edition of his small Hebrew Grammar has also appeared.

15. A second edition of VON HAMMER'S great work, 'Geschichte des Osmanischen Reiches,' is also in progress.

16. RITTER C. Ueber das historische Element in der geographischer Wissenschaft, pp. 60. 4to. Berl.

17. ROST V. C. F. Kleine Grammatik des Attischen Dialects, pp. 288. 8vo. Götting.

18. SCHMIDT J. J. Grammatik der Mongolischen Sprache, pp. 384. 8vo. St. Petersb. This writer is the celebrated oriental, or rather Mongol scholar, mentioned on p. 386 of this vol

ume.

19. SIEBOLD, P. F. Nippon, Archiv zur Beschreibung von Japan, etc. (2 Numbers and Atlas.) pp. 600. fol. Price 173 rixd. This is the commencement of the great work descriptive of Japan which we have already noticed, Bibl. Repos. III. p. 760.

20. SUIDAE Lexicon, post Küsterum rec. TH. GAISFORD

S. T. P. III Tom. Fol. Oxon. Lond. et Lips. Pr. 61 rixd.— The edition by Bernhardy of Halle, in 2 vols. quarto, is in progress.

21. The third Volume or Section of NEANDER'S 'Kirchengeschichte' is in press, comprising the period from A. D. 510 to A. D. 813, in one part or volume.-His 'History of the Apostolic Age,' is announced as being in a course of translation in England.

ART. VII. FOREIGN CORRESPONDENCE.

In closing, as we here do, our editorial labours, we are happy in being able to lay before our readers the subjoined extracts of letters from Christian friends abroad. The excellent catholic spirit which they breathe, will, we doubt not, be responded to in full by the American churches. To the Editor himself, also, it cannot but be gratifying to learn, by such a voice from a remote quarter of the globe, that his own labours have not been wholly in vain.-ED.

I. Extracts from a letter to the Editor from the REV. W. H. PEARCE, Member of the English Baptist Mission at Cal

cutta.

MY DEAR SIR,

CALCUTTA, 26TH MARCH, 1834.

To a benevolent mind nothing can be more grateful than the conviction, that its labours are extensively beneficial. Under this impression, you will hear with pleasure that on the shores of the sacred Ganges, and by Missionaries of another denomination and of a different nation, your labours as Editor of the Biblical Repository are known and appreciated. Having sometime since procured, through an unknown but valued friend, all the numbers of this work as far as published, I have felt in it a great degree of interest. The design and the execution cannot but commend themselves to every biblical student; while the work is peculiarly valuable to Missionaries like ourselves engaged in preparing translations of the sacred oracles for the use of

heathen nations. May it be long continued and vigorously supported!

I have not time to allude particularly to the state of missions here. In individual conversions we are not making much progress; in general impression throughout the country, Christianity is rapidly advancing. We greatly need more labourers; and shall be most happy to welcome more American brethren, be they of what denomination they may, to fellowship in our exertions and success.

I have the pleasure to forward, by this conveyance, a letter from a most intelligent and benevolent gentleman, possessed of much influence, recommending your Board to establish a mission in Ajmere. This, as well as all other parts of this vast country under British authority, is now accessible to Christian Missionaries of all denominations or nations; and I hazard nothing in saying, that to our Government and to most of the native Princes around us, the fact of sustaining the missionary character has now ceased to be an obstacle to the employment of any one in the great work of national education, which is commencing all around us.

I have the pleasure of ranking among my dearest friends several students of Andover and Princeton, as well as our own seminaries; and shall be truly rejoiced to receive under our roof, in progress to their respective stations, many more from these excellent Institutions. Pray make my respects acceptable to the instructors at Andover, (unknown they are, yet loved for their works' sake,) and present to the students, especially to those preparing for the pains and pleasures of a missionary life, my most affectionate regards.

I remain,
My Dear Sir,

II. Extracts from a letter to the of the University of Berlin.

MY DEAR FRIEND,

Yours most sincerely,
W. H. PEARCE.

Editor from PROF. NEANDER
Translated from the German.

BERLIN, JULY 6, 1834.

It was very pleasing to me, after having been so long without any external connexion with you, to receive some intelligence

directly from your own hand. I thank you heartily for the numbers of the Repository. I rejoice to see such an intercourse of mind and spirit set on foot between the United States and Germany. Indeed, Christianity is doubtless to become the element of catholic union among all nations; and one of the delightful signs of the times is, that it already begins to manifest itself as such. I rejoice also in the free and pious evangelical spirit, which shews itself among your young theologians.

Here with us the old and the new stand in manifold contrast and conflict with each other; out of which it is reserved for the Spirit of God, to build up the higher unity, upon the one only foundation, Christ. O, that this one foundation, in the midst of all differences, might ever secure constant love and communion! You will have heard of the death of that great man, Schleiermacher, which makes an epoch among us. The manner of his christian departure, so edifying to all, was the seal of that which animated his life; and served as a confutation to some zealous partisans, who were unwilling to acknowledge him as a Christian. He was a great instrument of God, in Germany, in forming a point of transition from unbelief to belief, and in preparing the way for an epoch of new developement in theology, the consequences of which may probably extend themselves beyond the ocean,-a new epoch, which, in contrast both with the old Scholastics and the later Rationalism, shall set theology free from the fetters of school-wisdom. This new creation it remains for the future to unfold. May He, who alone is able, bring it both here and there to a glorious accomplishment, when the hour destined by Him shall have arrived! The church and the world are in the throes!

For yourself I implore his richest blessings, in body and in spirit.

From the heart yours,

NEANDER.

With these impressive views of the respected Neander, the Editor bids the readers of the Repository FAREWELL!