Hengstenberg. —This learned writer has pub lished commentaries on the Psalms, Canticles, Ecclesiastes, and Apocalypse. He is better fitted for explaining the Old than the New T. His work on the Psalms is the best. But it is lengthy and laboured ; though a very valuable con tribution towards the understanding of the book. Its philology is inferior to its theology, and the latter itself cannot be always approved.
Delitzsch. —This able scholar has commented on the Epistle to the Hebrews, the Book of Genesis, the Song of Solomon, Habakkuk, and the Psalms. He has no lack of learning, nor of pious sympathy with the writers. But we have little confidence in his judgment. He is deficient in many of the higher qualities of a good expositor ; especially in a clear and condensed exhibition of the writers' meaning.
Hufifeld.—This learned scholar's exposition of the Book of Psalms is a model of thorough exposi tion, critical and theological.
erudite Bleek published but one commentary—viz., that on the Epistle to the Hebrews. It is constructed on the exhaustive principle, hardly anything untouched or undiscussed. It is thorough and masterly ; but tedious and somewhat heavy.
Fritzsche wrote commentaries on the Gospels of Matthew and Mark, and the Epistle to the Ro mans, which are unrivalled specimens of the gram matical and critical. The author had no equals in his knowledge of N. T. Greek, not even in Winer and Bleek. But in all the higher qualities of com mentary, his works are very deficient.
Stier.—This voluminous writer has commented very copiously on the words of the Lord Jesus in the Gospels, the Epistles of James and Jude, the Epistle to the Hebrews, Isaiah, and seventy select Psalms, etc. He is a better expositor of the N. T. than of the 0., and is fonder of its theo logical aspect than of the plain meaning. More compression and less of the homiletic character ' would improve his works ; which, however, are of considerable value, because the author has a degree of spiritual insight into Scripture denied to many of his countrymen.
Kea. —This orthodox theologian has written good commentaries on the Books of Joshua and Kings ; which are superseded by those in the Exegetical Hand-Book on the same.
We cannot afford space to speak particularly of Havemick on Daniel and Ezekiel ; of Billroth on the Corinthians, now nearly superseded by the later works of De Wette, Meyer, Riickert, Osiander, Stanley, and others ; of Baehr on the Colossians ; of Philippi on the Romans ; and of Harless on the Ephesians, which Tholuck thinks the best specimen of commentary extant. The number of such expository treatises on books of the N. and 0. T. is continually augmenting, and unless a work of the kind has some peculiar or marked excellence, it is soon liable to be superseded by a later, into which all the valuable material is incorporated.—S. D.