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 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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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]
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Date
[1727]
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English
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[2],v,[1],136;109,[3]p. ; 4°.
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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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Available for use in the Library. Available from home to registered NSW residents.
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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 Sect...
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Help for the more easy and clear understanding of the Holy Scriptures. Hagiographa.
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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.
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Also available in microfilm held offsite at RAV/FM4/51.
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Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Cengage Gale, 2009. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements.
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74VvQRaM3PoX
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991014494799702626