THE BIBLICAL REPOSITORY, A QUARTERLY PERIODICAL JOURNAL. CONDUCTED BY EDWARD ROBINSON, Prof. Extraordinary of Sac. Lit. in the Theol. Seminary, Andover. MUCH encouragement has been given to the BIBLICAL REPOSITORY in private letters from Gentlemen of the highest respectability in every part of the country; and as these letters were spontaneous expressions of good will, they have been so much the more gratifying. The Publishers, however, do not feel themselves at liberty to give them to the public; but content themselves here with subjoining the following notices of the work, which have already appeared in print. From PROFESSOR THOLUCK of Halle. "I own to you, that I regard the plan of these three [first] numbers as excellent. Your articles on Germany are so very candid, and the christian warmth which they exhibit is such, that they have been highly gratifying both to HAHN and myself. In a scientific respect also, I find that the articles which have sprung up on American ground, are of great value (vorziiglich), and the selections from the German, very appropriate; only I could wish, as I mentioned in my former letter, that the more modern German Dogmatik and christian philosophy might also find a place in your work. Should you succeed in making the contents of your Repository hereafter as rich and valuable as hitherto, it will become a classical book for the study of theology in America, and will be the commencement of a new era.—I intend to give in my Journal a notice of your work, in which it will receive the merited praise of extensive learning and great judiciousness.-See Bibl. Repos. No. V. pp. 207, 208. From PROFESSOR HAHN of Leipsic.' "I little thought to write to you again, before I should send off the article which I promised you for your noble (herrliches) Repository; and still it must be so. Of this, however, you may be assured, that I enrol myself with the greatest pleasure in the number of contributors to your theological Journal."-See Bibl. Repos. No. VI. p. 405. From the SPIRIT OF THE PILGRIMS. "The Biblical Repository bears unequivocal testimony to the ability and diligence of the Editor, and is particularly valuable as detailing, in part, the results of his researches and observations during his long residence in France and Germany.-We cordially welcome the work, and earnestly recommend it to the patronage of those who have opportunity and ability to devote themselves to a critical study of the Holy Scriptures. It is neatly and accurately printed, and is perhaps all, both in matter and form, which its friends and promoters could desire." From the CAMBRIDGE MONTHLY REVIEW. "The Biblical Repository, deserves a place in the library of every theologian and philologist. It contains a great amount of valuable theological learning, and introduces us to a much more familiar acquaintance with the German universities, and the state of theological education, than the Engglish reader can derive from any other source. We hope and trust that the public will not suffer this work to fail for want of that kind of encouragement, without which the learned cannot be expected to furnish for others that intellectual aliment, which it has cost them so much expense and toil to acquire. From the BOSTON RECORDer. "We mention this No. (the 8th) chiefly to say, that it completes the second volume, and that two volumes containing such an amount and variety of matter, of such interest and value to the Biblical student, have never before appeared from the American press. Considered in its bearings on the permanent interests of religion and literature, it is decidedly the most important of all our periodicals. From the NEW YORK COMMERCIAL ADVERTISER and N. Y. SPECTATOR. "The Fifth Number of this most valuable quarterly publication, under the editorial charge of Professor Robinson, of Andover, came to hand on Saturday, and we hasten to announce it to the public. We do not hesitate to say, that it very fully sustains the character allotted to it in this paper, on the perusal of the first and second numbers. We cannot but repeat our wish, that every well educated clergyman in the United States should subscribe for the Repository from the beginning. All who can afford it, and who desire to arrive at a high standard of biblical literature, will most assuredly do so." From the NEW YORK OBSERVER. "The work has been now more than a year before the public, and the high expectations which were excited respecting it, have been fully realiz ed. The universal language of the notices of it in our country, so far as we have observed, has been commendatory, and Professor Tholuck says of it, that if its contents continue to be as rich and valuable as heretofore, it must become a classical book for the study of Theology, and be the commencement of a new era in America. We have understood that the late lamented Dr. RICE charged his pupils to possess themselves of this publication, as one of the best helps to a knowledge of the Scriptures. And when we think how many controversies will be settled, and how many divisions healed, when the Bible is better understood, we cannot but join earnestly in this recommendatiou." From a Correspondent of the same Paper. "I spent a few hours, a day or two since, in reading the 5th number of the Biblical Repository, published at Andover, by Professor Robinson. The deep interest which it excited in my mind, leads me to make a remark or two to call the attention of your readers to this work. I do it wholly without the knowledge of the editor, or of any one else; and the testimony which I bear to it, is the result of my own convictions and feelings. I have no hesitation to say, that I have never yet seen a number of any periodical published in this country as interesting, or as valuable, as that to which I refer. It is so to christians at large, but especially to clergymen. Judging from this number, I am led to the conclusion that the Repository ought to be taken and read, not only by every clergyman, but by every layman, who values the right interpretation of the sacred Scriptures." From the Portland CHRISTIAN MIRROR. "We perceive no prospect of danger that scholars and teachers will overrate the importance of this work. What we said of the first number, may be repeated, that it occupies what is in this country a comparatively new and untrodden field. Biblical criticism, which was always the most important, is now becoming one of the most interesting sciences; and is pursued by some of the greatest and best cultivated minds, that enlighten and distinguish the present age." |