An help for the more easy and clear understanding of the holy scriptures: being the Book of Daniel : Explain'd after the following Method, viz. I. The Septuagint or Greek version amended according to the Best or most Ancient Readings. II. The common English version render'd more agreeable to the original. III. A paraphrase, wherein not only the Difficult Expressions and Passages are explain'd; but also the Whole Book is divided into proper Sections and Paragraphs: the Contents of the several Divisions being set down in their Proper places; and also exhibited All together in One View, by a Synopsis subjoin'd to the End of the said Book. IV. Annotations relating, as Occasion requires, to the several Particulars afore-mention'd. Before the Book of Daniel are prefix'd 1. A general Preface. 2. A Discourse concerning those Prophecies of Daniel, which relate to the Four Kingdoms of the Gentiles, and the Kingdom of Christ and his Saints &c. 3. Four Tables shewing the Synchronism or Correspondency of All the several Prophecies in Daniel, relating to the Four Kingdoms of the Gentiles, and the Kingdom of Christ and his Saints &c. 4. A Chronological Table of the more Remarkable Particulars relating to the Book of Daniel. 5. Some Observations concerning the Chronology relating to the Prophecy of the Seventy Weeks. After the Book of Daniel are subjoin'd 1. A Collection of the Various Readings of the LXX. or Greek Version of Daniel. 2. A View (or Collection) of such Passages and Expressions in the Book of Daniel, as are found likewise or refer'd to in the New Testament, especially in the Revelation of S. John. By Ed. Wells D. D. Rector of Cotesbach in Leicester-Shire.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Wells, Edward, 1667-1727.

Standardized Title:

Bible. O.T. Daniel. Polyglot. Wells.

Language:

Multiple languages

Subjects (All):

Bible. N.T. Catholic Epistles.

Bible.

Bible. O.T. Daniel--Commentaries.

Bible. O.T. Daniel--Paraphrases, English.

Physical Description:

1 online resource ([8],44170,[2]p.,IV tables )

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 St Paul's Church-Yard, London, 1716.

Notes:

With an initial leaf of instruction to the binder and a final leaf of advertisements.

With the text in Greek and English.

Later reissued as part of Well's 'Paraphrase .. on the New Testament'.

Reproduction of original from British Library.

Cited in:

English Short Title Catalog, T112331.

OCLC:

642281081