MINOR PROPHETS,

WITH A

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COMMENTARY

EXPLANATORY AND PRACTICAL

AND

INTRODUCTIONS TO THE SEVERAL BOOKS.

THE REV. E. B. PUSEY, D. D.

REGIUS PROFESSOR OF HEBREW, AND CANON OF CHRIST CHURCH.

VOL. II.

MICAH, NAHUM, HABAKKUK, ZEPHANIAH, HAGGAI, ZECHARIAH AND MALACHI.

Open thou mine eyes, that I may behold wondrous things out of thy law.-Ps. cxIx. 18.

NEW YORK:

FUNK & WAGNALLS, PUBLISHERS,

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Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1885,

By FUNK & WAGNALLS,

In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington, D. C.

His name: a villager: his date: earlier than Isaiah, yet prophesied under

Ahaz and in beginning of Hezekiah's reign: divisions of his book: simplicity

but vividness and energy of his style. His extreme tenderness. His use of

the Pentateuch, and use of his book by later prophets,

COMMENTARY.-CHAPTERS I.-VII.

pp. 5-14

INTRODUCTION.

His date: date of the conquest of No, mentioned by him. Strength of Nineveh:

its history: its might enlarged, until within 22 years of its fall. Suddenness of

its fall. Its rivers were its strength and weakness. Commerce continued its old

course on the opposite side of the river, but itself perished. Pseudo-criticisms

as to his style,

COMMENTARY.-CHAPTERS I.—III.

pp. 105-128

INTRODUCTION.

III. HABAKKUK.

Prophet of faith: earlier than Zephaniah: pseudo-criticism as to his language.

Suddenness of the rise and fall of the strength of Babylon: mistake of Assyria

in placing Chaldees there. Magnificence of Habakkuk's style,

COMMENTARY.-CHAPTERS I.-III.

IV. ZEPHANIAH.

pp. 165-177

INTRODUCTION.

Correspondence with Habakkuk. His date, use of former prophets. Distinct

prophecies. Myth of critics as to Scythians being formidable to the Jews.

Vividness and tenderness,

COMMENTARY.-CHAPTERS I.—III.

Moabite stone, translation of its inscription,

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