Excerpt from The Interest of the Bible The first chapter appeared originally in The C on temporary Review, the second in The Homiletic Review, the third in The American journal of Theology, the fourth, eighth, ninth, tenth, eleventh and twelfth, in The Biblical World, the fifth and fifteenth in The Expositor, the sixth and eighteenth in The Expository Times, the seventh in The Holborn Review, the thirteenth in The Hibbert journal, the fourteenth and seventeenth in The Westminster (toronto), and the sixteenth in The Free Cit/urchmcm. To the editors of all these magazines I owe my very cordial thanks for their most courteous and readily granted permission to reproduce these chapters. 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.