WORKS BY R. H. CHARLES, D.D., D.Litt., LL.D. ARCHDEACON OF WESTMINSTER FELLOW OF THE BRITISH ACADEMY Published by MESSRS. T. & T. CLARK 1. A CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL COMMENTARY ON THE REVELATION OF ST. JOHN. With Introduction, Notes, and Indices: also The Greek Text and English Translation. (International Critical Commentary.) In 2 Vols. 208. each. Prof. J. MOFFATT says: "It is far ahead of any commentary in any language." "Dr. Charles's Commentary has been long in coming, but it was worth waiting for. There is no need to say that it realises the highest expectations that were formed of it. A great commentary on Revelation was badly needed, and no living scholar was so well-equipped for the task as Dr. Charles. It will take rank with the greatest commentaries on the New Testament Books."-The Christian World. 2. THE DECALOGUE. Being the Warburton Lectures delivered in Lincoln's Inn and Westminster Abbey, 1919-1923. "Deeply as I have been interested in the critical and historical study of the Decalogue, it has been my main aim to interpret the Decalogue on the spiritual and ethical lines already laid down in the N.T., and to apply its lessons to the crying needs of our day."-R. H. CHARLES. 3. THE ADVENTURE INTO THE UNKNOWN. 7s. net And Other Sermons Preached in Westminster Abbey. "Here is a volume extraordinarily apt for the times. There is not a sermon that is not quick to the age, keen on the duties of the times, heavy on the sins of men, whether of the classes or the masses."-Methodist Recorder. 4. STUDIES IN THE APOCALYPSE. 75. net "Dr. Charles's knowledge of Jewish and Christian 'Apocalyptic' is unrivalled among English scholars. This volume is a real contribution towards the scientific study of the Apocalypse." Churchman. 38 George St. T. & T. CLARK Stationers' Hall Edinburgh London BEING THE WARBURTON LECTURES DELIVERED IN LINCOLN'S INN AND WESTMINSTER ABBEY 1919-1923 BY R. H. CHARLES, D.D., D.LITT., LL.D. ARCHDEACON OF WESTMINSTER FELLOW OF THE BRITISH ACADEMY EDINBURGH: T. & T. CLARK, 38 GEORGE STREET ODLE! * MADE AND PRINTED IN GREAT BRITAIN BY MORRISON AND GIBB LIMITED FOR T. & T. CLARK, EDINBURGH LONDON: SIMPKIN, MARSHALL, HAMILTON, KENT, AND CO. LIMITED 1094 PREFACE THE subject of these Warburton Lectures I have treated from three standpoints the critical, the historical and the practical. The Critical.-In the Introduction (pp. vii-lxiv) I have studied the Decalogue critically and have shown that it existed in various forms-at least five-its earliest dating from the close of the fourteenth century B.C., and its latest from the close of the third. The latest is preserved in the Nash Hebrew Papyrus (pp. viixxxiii). In its earliest and tersest form, in which each Commandment consisted of one brief crisp command (pp. xliv-xlviii), it comes from the great lawgiver, Moses. In the centuries that followed it received various accretions which were on the whole in keeping with the spirit of the original Commandments, save in the case of the Fourth as it is transmitted in Exodus xx. 11. In order to represent the results of my research briefly and clearly, I have given on p. lv a genealogical tree, which shows the descent and relations of the successive forms of the Mosaic Decalogue, and on p. lxiii another a |
