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Prefatory Note

Prefatory Note

ev. Benjamin Breckinridge Warfield, D.D., LL.D., Professor of R Didactic and Polemic Theology in the Theological Seminary of the Presbyterian Church at Princeton, New Jersey, provided in his will for the collection and publication of the numerous articles on theological subjects which he contributed to encyclopaedias, reviews and other periodicals, and appointed a committee to edit and publish these papers. In pursuance of his instructions, this, the third volume, containing his historico-critical articles on the Person and work of Christ, has been prepared under the editorial direction of this committee.

The generous permission to publish articles contained in this volume is gratefully acknowledged as follows: Funk and Wagnalls, for the article taken from "The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopaedia of Religious Knowledge,"

The University of Chicago Press for the articles taken from The American Journal of Theology, Harvard Divinity School, for the articles taken from The Harvard Theological Review, and Mr. Leroy Phillips for the article taken from The Hibbert Journal.

The clerical preparation of this volume has been done by Miss Letitia N. Gosman and Mr. Johannes G. Vos, to whom the thanks of the

committee are hereby expressed.

Ethelbert D. Warfield William Park Armstrong Caspar Wistar Hodge Committee.

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