THE

BIBLICAL

REASON WHY:

Family Guide to Scripture Readings,

AND A

HAND-BOOK FOR BIBLICAL STUDENTS.

BY THE AUTHOR OF

"THE REASON WHY--GENERAL SCIENCE," "THE REASON WHY...
NATURAL HISTORY," "THAT'S IT, OR PLAIN TEACHING," ETC.

ILLUSTRATED WITH NUMEROUS ENGRAVINGS.

This Work gives REASONS founded upon the Bible, and assigned by the most eminent Divines
and Christian Philosophers, for the great and all-absorbing events recorded in the History of the
Bible, the Life of our Saviou and the Acts of His Apostles.

NEW YORK:

DICK & FITZGERALD, PUBLISHERS,

No. 18 ANN STREET.

Ertered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1859, Dy

DICK & FITZGERALD,

In the Clerk's Office of the United States District Court of the Southern District of New York.

IIE study of the
Bible has ever

been, and will

always

con

tinue, a deeply interesting

one to every earnest and faithful Christian; because it contains the seeds of that knowledge of salvation SO essential to his soul's welfare. Many clever and learned commentaries have been written on the

Holy Scriptures, displaying, on the part of their authors, deep and profound erudition; but as many, who are, perchance, well acquainted with its sacred truths in their own language, may not be sufficiently, if at all, versed in the Hebrew, Chaldaic, or Greek-the original languages in which both the Old and New Testaments were written