Prefatory Note
REV.
BENJAMIN
BRECKINRIDGE
WARFIELD, D.D., LL.D.,
Professor of 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 ninth volume, containing miscellaneous
Studies in Theology, 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 Company for the articles taken from "The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious
Knowledge" edited by Samuel Macauley Jackson; Charles Scribner's Sons for the article taken from the "Encyclopædia of Religion and Ethics" edited by James Hastings; The Board of Christian Education of the Presbyterian
Church in the U. S. A. for the article taken from "A Dictionary of the Bible" by John D. Davis, published by The Westminster Press; The Biblical
Seminary in New York for the articles taken from The Biblical Review; Pittsburgh-Xenia Theological Seminary for the article taken from
Bibliotheca Sacra; and The University of Chicago Press for the article taken from The American Journal of Theology.
The clerical preparation of this volume has been done by Mr. John E.
Meeter, to whom the thanks of the committee are hereby expressed.
Ethelbert D. Warfield William Park Armstrong Caspar Wistar Hodge Committee.