A Commentary on the Holy Scriptures: Apocrypha
Digital Verbum Edition
Overview
Lange’s Commentary on the Holy Scriptures has served as a standard reference for more than a century. The subtitle “Critical, Doctrinal, and Homiletical” aptly describes the three-pronged approach to the biblical text. This translated version of the German text is often considered by many to be superior to the original.
Top Highlights
“Jews have ever continued to observe the recurrence of the day as the ‘Feast of Dedication,’ and no festival awakens among them more grateful memories.” (Page 22)
“The different parts were classified as Law, Prophets, and Hagiographa.3 New copies were assiduously made.” (Page 8)
“On the 16th of Chisleu—the date could never be forgotten—Mount Moriah itself was dedicated to Jupiter, and a heathen shrine placed over the sacred altar. Ten days later a herd of swine were driven into the temple precincts, and their subsequent sacrifice completed the desecration. This was the ‘abomination of desolation’ (βδέλυγμα ἐρημώσεως, 1 Macc. 1:54), the synonym, in all later Jewish history, of infamous wickedness and of humiliation to the uttermost.” (Page 21)
“God forbid that I should do this thing and flee away from them. If our time be come let us die manfully for our brethren and leave behind no stain upon our honor!’” (Page 22)
“nd was saved to him only by the friendly intervention of the latter’s mother and bitter opponent, Cleopatra of Egypt” (Page 25)