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An help for the more easy and clear understanding of the Holy Scriptures: being the books of Chronic...

An help for the more easy and clear understanding of the Holy Scriptures: being the books of Chronic...

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An help for the more easy and clear understanding of the Holy Scriptures: being the books of Chronicles, Ezra, Nehemiah and Esther [electronic resource] : Explain'd after the following Method, viz. I. The common English translation render'd more agreeable to the original. II. A paraphrase, wherein the Text is explain'd, and divided into proper Sections and other lesser Divisions. III. Annotations as Occasion requires. At the End of the Paraphrase is added, IV. A Brief Continuation of the Jewish History from the Times of the Old Testament to the Times of the New Testament. Before the Paraphrase is plac'd, V. A Preface to the Reader, wherein Notice is taken of the Usefulness of the Sections, into which the Paraphrase is divided, for Reading the Sacred History in due Order as to the Series of Time, wherein the several Particulars were transacted. Also Notice is given, What sacred Books are intended to be next printed, and of some Improvements relating thereto. By Edw. Wells, D.D. Rector of Cotesbach in Leicestershire.

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Full title

An help for the more easy and clear understanding of the Holy Scriptures: being the books of Chronicles, Ezra, Nehemiah and Esther [electronic resource] : Explain'd after the following Method, viz. I. The common English translation render'd more agreeable to the original. II. A paraphrase, wherein the Text is explain'd, and divided into proper Sections and other lesser Divisions. III. Annotations as Occasion requires. At the End of the Paraphrase is added, IV. A Brief Continuation of the Jewish History from the Times of the Old Testament to the Times of the New Testament. Before the Paraphrase is plac'd, V. A Preface to the Reader, wherein Notice is taken of the Usefulness of the Sections, into which the Paraphrase is divided, for Reading the Sacred History in due Order as to the Series of Time, wherein the several Particulars were transacted. Also Notice is given, What sacred Books are intended to be next printed, and of some Improvements relating thereto. By Edw. Wells, D.D. Rector of Cotesbach in Leicestershire.

Publisher

Oxford : printed at the Theater, 1727. And sold by Will. Wells Bookseller in Oxford; and J. Knapton at the Crown in St Paul's Church Yard, London, [1727]

Uniform title

Bible. O.T. Hagiographa. English. Wells. and Help for the more easy and clear understanding of the Holy Scriptures. Hagiographa.

Date

[1727]

Record Identifier

74VvQRaM3PoX

MMS ID

991014494799702626

Language

English

Formats

Physical Description

Physical content

[2],v,[1],136;109,[3]p. ; 4°.

Publication information

Publisher

Oxford : printed at the Theater, 1727. And sold by Will. Wells Bookseller in Oxford; and J. Knapton at the Crown in St Paul's Church Yard, London, [1727]

Place of Publication

England

Date Published

[1727]

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Access Conditions

Available for use in the Library. Available from home to registered NSW residents.

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Alternative Titles

Full title

An help for the more easy and clear understanding of the Holy Scriptures: being the books of Chronicles, Ezra, Nehemiah and Esther [electronic resource] : Explain'd after the following Method, viz. I. The common English translation render'd more agreeable to the original. II. A paraphrase, wherein the Text is explain'd, and divided into proper Sect...

Variant title

Help for the more easy and clear understanding of the Holy Scriptures. Hagiographa.

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Notes

General note

Ezra, Nehemiah, Esther and 'A brief continuation of the Jewish history, from the .. Old Testament; to the .. New' have continuous pagination and register.

I and II Chronicles have continuous pagination and register.

Reproduction of original from British Library.

With the text incorporated in the paraphrase.

Additional physical form availability note

Also available in microfilm held offsite at RAV/FM4/51.

Reproduction note

Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Cengage Gale, 2009. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements.

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Record Identifier

74VvQRaM3PoX

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MMS ID

991014494799702626