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Excerpt from The Twelve Minor Prophets Literature - Expositions of the entire book of the Minor Pr0phets: Patristic commentaries by Jerome, Theodore of mopsuestia, Cyril of Alex, Theodoret; Rabbinical, by Rashi (rabbi Solomon ben Isaac, T1105), Ibn Ezra (t1167). D. Kimchi in the Reformation period; Oecolam padins Calvin See post Reformation exposition in Kleinert on Obad. To Zephaniah. Of modern expositors may be mentioned: F. Hitzig (1838, 4 Aufl., set ting aside untenable positions; revised by H. Steiner, 1881) H. Ewald, Prophets of 0. T. (5 vols, Williams Norgate); P. Schegg (catholic); E. B. Pusey, The Minor Prophets Keil, ditto, 2 vols. (clark); Speaker's Comm. Vol. Vi.; Farrar, The Minor Prophets (nisbet) Lange's Commentary, by Schmoller, Kleinert, and 'j. P. Lange; J. Wolfendale, Homt'let. Comm. On Minor Prophets, 1880. I have a college course on Hosea to Jonah by Fr. Delitzsch, which I took down in the winter of 1868 - 69, which has constantly been of special value to me in the exposition of these prophets. The influence of this exposition on my own reaches, however, beyond the citations, extending Often to the translation. The best edition of the text is by S. Baer, Ltber XII. Pr0ph. 1878. Com parison of the Massoret. Text with LXX in K. A. Vollers, . Das Dodekapropheton der Alexandrt'ner, i. (nahum to Malachi), Berlin 1880; see the continuation in Zeitschr. Fur altt. We'ssensch. 1883, p. 219 ff; 1884, p. 1 if. Comparison of the Massoret. Text with the Syrian version in M. Sebok (schon berger), Die syre'sche Uebersetznng der zwolf hlez'nen Propheten, Breslau 1887. For expositions of the several writings, see in loo. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.