In sending forth the second volume of my * ' Exposi- tory Thoughts on St. John," I have little or nothing to add to the introduction with which I prefaced the first volume.
In the general plan of the work, — in the style of expositions, notes, and critical remarks, — in the list of Commentators employed and consulted in preparing the whole, the reader will find little difference be- tween this volume and the one which preceded it. I have rigidly adhered to the line which I marked out to myself at first. In the notes I have gone steadily forward through every verse, endeavouring to throw light on the meaning of every word, evading no diffi- culty, examining every disputable point, trying to un- tie every knot, and carefully availing myself of help from every quarter.
The doctrinal views of religion to which I gave ex- pression in the first volume, will be found unchanged in the second. The fourteen years which have