Bible studies, contributions chiefly from papyri and ... - Predestination

Vlll AUTHOR S PREFACE TO THE ENGLISH EDITION.
tively the German Bibelstudien and Neue BibeUtudien
were published, there has been a vast increase of
available material, which, again, has been much more
accessible to me as a Professor in the University
of Heidelberg than it was during my residence at
Herborn. I have so far availed myself of portions
of the more recent discoveries in this English edition ;
but what remains for scholars interested in such
investigations is hardly less than enormous, and is
being augmented year by year. I shall be greatly
pleased if yet more students set themselves seriously
to labour in this field of biblical research.
In the English edition not a few additional
changes have been made ; I must, however, reserve
further items for future Studiei^. With regard to the
entries KvpiaKoq (p. 217 ff.), and especially iKao-TTJpLou
(p. 124 ff.), I should like to make express reference
to the articles Lord's Day and Mercy Seat to be
contributed by me to the Encyclopaedia Biblica.
Finally, I must record my heartiest thanks to
my translator, Rev. Alexander Grieve, M.A., D. Phil,,
Forfar, for his work. With his name I gratefully
associate the words which once on a time the trans-
lator of the Wisdom of Jesus Sirack applied with
ingenuous complacency to himself : noXXrju aypvirviav
/cat kTTLcrTyjfJLrji' TTpoaeveyKdp,^vo^.
ADOLF DEI8SMANN.
Heidelberg,
Onth December, 1900.