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A New Commentary on Holy Scripture Including the Apocrypha was written by a variety of respected Anglican scholars and edited by Charles Gore, H. L. Goudge, and Alfred Guillaume. Created in the spirit of progressive criticism, this commentary posits conclusions that differ widely from the accepted views of the day. The scholars dedicated to this work believed that the Apocrypha was extremely...

By F. C. BURKITT The Books of the Prophets constitute the most original and influential contribution of Israel to religion. At the highest point, in Jeremiah, we find personal religion, consciously articulate and not dependent on national cult, yet this personal relation of the individual to God did not issue in the decay of national worship: it was used to purify and strengthen that worship. The nation itself adopted the utterances of the Prophets, and as Matthew Arnold so