and Colleges. GENERAL EDITOR:-J. J. S. PEROWNE, D.D., DEAN OF PETERBOROUGH. 39166 THE GENERAL EPISTLES OF ST PETER & ST JUDE, WITH NOTES AND INTRODUCTION BY E. H. PLUMPTRE, D.D., DEAN OF WELLS. EDITED FOR THE SYNDICS OF THE UNIVERSITY PRESS. Cambridge: AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS. 1890 [All Rights reserved.] 5.10.54 PREFACE BY THE GENERAL EDITOR. THE General Editor of The Cambridge Bible for Schools thinks it right to say that he does not hold himself responsible either for the interpretation of particular passages which the Editors of the several Books have adopted, or for any opinion on points of doctrine that they may have expressed. In the New Testament more especially questions arise of the deepest theological import, on which the ablest and most conscientious interpreters have differed and always will differ. His aim has been in all such cases to leave each Contributor to the unfettered exercise of his own judgment, only taking care that mere controversy should as far as possible be avoided. He has contented himself chiefly with a careful revision of the notes, with pointing out omissions, with suggesting occasionally a reconsideration of some question, or a fuller treatment of difficult passages, and the like. Beyond this he has not attempted to interfere, feeling it better that each Commentary should have its own individual character, and being convinced that freshness and variety of treatment are more than a compensation for any lack of uniformity in the Series. DEANERY, PETERBOROUGH. |