GREEK AND ENGLISH

LEXICON

TO THE

NEW TESTAMENT:

IN WHICH

THE WORDS AND PHRASES OCCURRING IN THOSE SACRED BOOKS ARE
DISTINCTLY EXPLAINED;

AND THE

MEANINGS ASSIGNED TO EACH AUTHORIZED BY REFERENCES TO PASSAGES OF SCRIPTURE,

AND FREQUENTLY ILLUSTRATED AND CONFIRMED BY

CITATIONS FROM THE OLD TESTAMENT

AND FROM

THE GREEK WRITERS.

TO THIS WORK IS PREFIXED,

A PLAIN AND EASY GREEK GRAMMAR,
Adapted to the Use of Learners, and those who understand no other Language than English.

BY JOHN PARKHURST, M.A.

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FORMERLY FELLOW OF CLARE HALL, CAMBRIDGE.

A NEW EDITION,

COMPRISING THE MORE VALUABLE PARTS OF THE WORKS OF SOME LATER WRITERS,

BY HUGH JAMES ROSE, B.D.

OF TRINITY COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE.

MAT. XXII. 29.

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PREFACE.

TO THE PRESENT EDITION.

In presenting to the public a new edition of Parkhurst's Greek Lexicon, it is just to the publishers to mention the additions which have been made to it at their request.

Although the warmest acknowledgments are due from the English public to the venerable and learned author of this useful work, it is not to be denied that it labours under very considerable defects. The peculiar opinions of the school of Hutchinson, of which Mr. Parkhurst was at least an admirer, induced him to attribute great importance to etymological researches; and his own (in which he indulged so largely in this Lexicon) are unfortunately in the highest degree fanciful and uncertain. The cosmological theories of Hutchinson and Bate are dwelt on with a frequency and an extent little adapted to the plan of the Lexicon; and their other tenets occasionally give a tinge to the author's interpretations and comments which deprives them of the authority which his sound learning and exceeding love of truth would otherwise bestow on them. I presume not to pronounce an opinion on the merits of the Hutchinsonian philosophy. I reverence the piety and the learning of many of its followers: but a book for general use and general readers was not the place for introducing tenets so much doubted and opposed.

A still greater fault in the Lexicon is the want of accurate discrimination between the various senses of the same word. Great inconvenience also arises from the paucity of instances given under each head, and the looseness of the references to profane authors. These defects had altogether banished the work from the shelves of the critical reader, and its place has been supplied there by the labours of recent German Lexicographers, those especially of Schleusner, Bretschneider, and Wahl. That these books, however, should entirely usurp the place of a work as much superior to them in sound principle as it is, perhaps, inferior in some other respects, is a subject of serious regret: for although what is commonly termed Rationalism does not appear in its worst form in the books I have referred to, it has occasion