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An help for the more easy and clear understanding of the Holy Scriptures: being all the Epistles of St Paul, Explain'd after the following Method, viz. I. The Original or Greek text amended according to the Best and most Antient Readings. II. The common English translation render'd more agreeable to the original. III. A paraphrase, wherein not only the Difficult Expressions and Passages are explain'd, but also the Design of the Apostle, and the Method used by Him in prosecuting his Design, are set forth by Proper Divisions into Sections and Paragraphs; and withall are exhibited in One View by a Synopsis subjoin'd to the End of the Epistle. IV. Short annotations, relating (as Occasion requires) to the Several Particulars afore-mention'd. By Ed. Wells D. D. Rector of Cotesbach in Leicester-Shire.

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Format:
Book
Contributor:
Wells, Edward, 1667-1727.
Standardized Title:
Bible. N.T. Epistles. Polyglot. Wells.
Language:
Multiple languages
Subjects (All):
Bible. N.T. Catholic Epistles.
Bible.
Bible--Commentaries.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (5 parts,plate )
Other Title:
Help for the more easy and clear understanding of the Holy Scriptures
An help for the more easy and clear understanding of the Holy Scriptures
Place of Publication:
Oxford : printed at the Theater, for James Knapton at the Crown in S. Paul's Church-Yard, London, 1715.
Notes:
Text in Greek and English.
In five parts, each with separate titlepage, pagination and register; issued at Oxford between 1709 and 1716.
Some copies contain different editions of some parts.
Sometimes forming part of Well's 'Paraphrase with annotations on the New Testament', London, and sometimes issued with 'An help .. the Epistles of St. James, St. Peter, St. John, and St. Jude ...' and 'An help .. the Revelation of St. John the divine'.
Reproduction of original from British Library.
Cited in:
English Short Title Catalog, T112324.
OCLC:
642281062

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