то THE ORACLES; OR, THE BIBLE STUDENT'S VADE-MECUM. BY ALFRED NEVIN, D. D., " AUTHOR OF "SPIRITUAL PROGRESSION," "CHURCHES OF THE VALLEY," ETC. I will not forget thy word.-Ps. cxix. 16. This lamp, from off the everlasting throne, POLLOK. LEWISBURG, PA.: WILLIAM MURRAY. Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1857, by MURRAY, YOUNG & CO., in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. STEREOTYPED BY J. FAGAN, PHILADELPHIA. THIS VOLUME Is Dedicated то SEPTIMUS TUSTIN, D.D., OF WASHINGTON CITY, EX-CHAPLAIN OF THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES, AS AN EXPRESSION OF THE AUTHOR'S PROFESSIONAL AND PERSONAL REGARD. (iii) PREFACE. "VESSELS of moderate draught," says the author of a recent and valuable work on The Evidences of Christianity," "may go up the tributary streams of public thought, and may deal advantageously with the minds of men, where others of heavier tonnage could never reach." In this fact the following pages find whatever apology or warrant they require for their publication. They are not intended for learned theologians, or for students of Biblical science who have access to large libraries, but for Sabbath-school and Bible-class teachers and scholars, and others who feel the need, as it is believed many do, of a convenient and compendious volume, to which they can at any time turn for information to aid them in understanding and defending the Word of God. They have been prepared to serve in this direction as a manual, to which recourse can be had with confidence and comfort, for explanations which might be found elsewhere, but only after research involving a greater expenditure of time and means. By this avowal of their design it is hoped they will be judged. It is but just to state that, in the construction of the work, everything has been brought to bear upon its object within the author's reach. Anxious to make the "Guide" as thorough and complete as due regard to its purpose and popular character would admit, he has brought himself under obligation "much every way" to others, whose labors have been bestowed upon the same region of inquiry and instruction. From the productions of some of them he has transferred to his own, both in substance and form, a great deal which could |