Excerpt from A Key to the Bible: Containing a Summary of Biblical Knowledge, and a Dictionary of All the Principal Words in the Old and New Testaments This key TO the bible is designed for utility, agreeably to its expressive title. Young persons of superior education whose natural inquisitiveness has been quickened by intelligence are especially intended to be benefited by this Volume, aiding them in their studies, seeking to understand more fully the saving doctrines of the Holy Scriptures. Inquiries, which universally exercise the minds of such readers of the Bible, were painfully experienced by the author in early life but at that period the means of scriptural knowledge and of religious instruction were far less abundant than happily they now exist in our highly favoured age. During the last thirty years, therefore, he has laboured in various ways to promote the edification of the younger classes of the community, and according to the testimony of many, with some good degree of success, guiding them, while searching the mind of Christ as revealed in the oracles of God. 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.