TO THE NEW TESTAMENT. BY JOHN DAVID MICHAELIS, LATE PROFESSOR IN THE UNIVERSITY OF GOTTINGEN, &c. TRANSLATED FROM THE FOURTH EDITION OF THE GERMAN, AND CONSIDERABLY AUGMENTED WITH NOTES, AND A DISSERTATION ON THE ORIGIN and COMPOSITION OF THE THREE FIRST GOSPELS. BY HERBERT MARSH, B.D. F.R.S. VOL. III. PART I. THE SECOND EDITION. LONDON, PRINTED FOR F. AND C. RIVINGTON, No 62, ST. PAUL'S CHURCH YARD. TRANSLATOR'S PREFACE ΤΟ VOL. III. AND VOL. IV. OTHE BIB S the volumes, now prefented to the public, containing a translation of the latter half of Michaelis's Introduction to the New Teftament, have fucceeded the publication of the former half, after an interval of not lefs than eight years, and even at prefent my commentary on the author's text extends no further than the three firft Gofpels, it may be justly expected, that I should offer fome explanation upon this fubject. The tranflation itself was finifhed before the clofe of 1795, when I began to draw up a commentary on our author's text, as I had done in the preceding volumes. But as I proceeded with the Notes on the three firft Gofpels, I perceived the neceffity of entering into a minute investigation of their origin and compofition, which gave rise to the Differtation, printed in Vol. III. P. ii.: and this Differtation was not finished before the beginning of 1798. It was at that time, that my attention began to be directed to a totally different fubject: the calumnies, which were then inceffantly uttered against Great Britain, both at home and abroad, provoked me to attempt a confutation of them: and the volumes, which I accordingly published, again employed an interval of nearly two years. Toward the end of 1799, I returned to the study of theology: I began to collect materials for obfervations on the other books of the New Testament: and I intended to BOD |