The life and work of St. Paul

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competent and so fully occupied by public and private duties. From the
Very Rev. Dean Stanley; from Mr. Walter Leaf, Fell, of Trin. Coll.,
from the Rev J. E. Kempe, Hector
Cambridge, my friend and former pupil ;
of St. James's, Piccadilly ; from Mr. R. Garuett, of the British Museum ;
and from my valued colleagues in the parish of St. Margaret's, the Rev. H.
H. Montgomery and the Rev. J. S. Northcote, I have received valuable
advice, or kind assistance in the laborious task of correcting the proof-sheets.
The Bishop of Durham had kindly looked over the first few pages, and but
for bis elevation to his present high position, I might have derived still fur-
ther benefit from his wide learning and invariable kindness. If my book fail
to achieve the purposes for which it was written, I shall at least have enjoyed
the long weeks of labour spent in the closest study of the Word of God, and
next to this I shall value the remembrance that I received from so many
friends, a self-sacrificing kindness which I had so little right to expect, and
am so little able to repay.
I desire also to express my best obligations to my Publishers, and the
gentlemen connected with their firm, who have spared no labour in seeing
the, work through the press.
After having received such ungrudging aid it would be ungrateful to
dwell on the disadvantages in the midst of which this book has been written.
I have done my best under the circumstances in which a task of such dimen-
and though I have fallen far short of my own ideal
sions was alone possible ;
though I am deeply conscious of the many necessary imperfections of my
work though it is hardly possible that I should have escaped errors in a
book involving so many hundreds of references and necessitating the exami-
nation of so many critical and exegetical questions I still hope that the
work will be accepted as furnishing another part of a humble but faithful
endeavour to enable those who read them to
ledge
acquire a more thorough know-
of a large portion of the Word of God.
ST. MARGARET'S RECTORY,
F. W. FARRAB.
isrs.