Excerpt from Daily Bible Illustrations: Being Original Readings for a Year, on Subjects From Sacred History, Biography, Geography, Antiquities, and Theology; Especially Designed for the Family Circle The views on which the author has proceeded, and the objects at which he has aimed, have been too often stated to need fur ther explanation. As this, however, is the last opportunity that will be afforded to him of alluding to the subject, he may be allowed to say, once for all, that, in the execution of this work, it has been his desire to make the new familiar, and to make the familiar new. This has been pronounced by a great authority* to be a worthy object of human endeavor. How far - how very far - the author has fallen short of his own aims and pur poses, none can know so well as himself: how far he has reached towards them, must be judged by a public from which, during a long intercourse, he has experienced too much indul gence to have any wish to appeal from its decisions. In the present volume the historical intimati'ons contained in the Epistles have been carefully gathered up, and interwoven with the leading matter from the Acts of the Apostles. The conclusions exhibited are founded on a critical reading of the sacred text - the special results of which are, whenever necce sary or when peculiarly interesting, explained; but are more frequently embodied in the statement or recital, without re mark. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.