FOR THE USE OF SUNDAY-SCHOOL TEACHERS, BIBLE CLASSES, AND BIBLE READERS GENERALLY. BIBLE WORD-BOOK: A Glossary of Scripture Terms WHICH HAVE CHANGED THEIR POPULAR MEANING, OR BY WILLIAM SWINTON, AUTHOR OF "HARPER'S LANGUAGE SERIES," "WORD-BOOK," EDITED BY PROF. T. J. CONANT, D. D. NEW YORK: HARPER & BROTHERS, PUBLISHERS. By PROFESSOR SWINTON. LANGUAGE PRIMER. 102 pp., 40 cents. 176 pp., 50 cents. SCHOOL COMPOSITION. 151 pp., 50 cents. PROGRESSive engliSH GRAMMAR. 207 pp., 75 cents. Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1876, in the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington. NOV 2 1 1934 CBBD PREFACE. THE aim of this little manual is strictly practical. Though designed for the use of Bible-readers generally, it is specifically intended for Sunday schools and Bible-classes. The hope of the author is that it may be introduced as a regular study in Sunday schools and Bible-classes. The entire vocabulary of peculiar and obsolete terms, here given, does not much exceed three hundred words; so that a weekly lesson of six words would in a year carry the scholar through the whole list. This would give a definite and specific aim to Sabbath instruction; and the knowledge thus acquired could hardly fail to bear fruit both in the spiritual and the intellectual advancement of the student. In the idea of this book there is nothing original. There have been several learned and elaborate works on the vocabulary of the Scriptures; and the merit, if any, of the present little hand-book is rather in the absence of learning and elaborateness, that is to say, in such a treatment of the subject as shall bring the matter down to the comprehension of plain read |