Vers. 1–12. The former treatise have I made.—A true commencement must have respect to what has gone before:—In any new beginning of study or work, it is important to have in mind what has been done before in the same line. No one can learn or do to advantage, unless he avails himself of what others have learned and done before him. Any other plan would utterly forbid progress. The world would be full of new beginnings—and nothing else. He who would study the New Testament wisely, must know what the