Richard Chenevix Trench

This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base for future generations. So that the book is never forgotten we have represented this book in a print format as the same form as it was originally first published. Hence any marks or annotations seen are left intentionally to preserve its true nature.

First published in 1904, this book contains the conclusions of a series of lectures exploring the moral and historical value of single words. The author argues that, just as wisdom and knowledge are discoverable in books, so too are these treasures to be found in individual words themselves.

This volume is intended to be a contribution to a special branch of the study of our own language. It proposes to trace in a popular manner and for general readers the changes of meaning which so many of its words have undergone; words which, as current with us as they were with out forefathers, yet meant something different on their lips from what they mean on ours.

This complete collection of Richard Chenevix Trench's parable notes contains all thirty of his splendid commentaries complete with his introduction and preface. A renowned scholar of the Biblical texts who served as Archbishop of the Church of England, the author offers here a detailed and meticulous examination of thirty of the best-known Biblical parables. The words of Jesus Christ, who was renowned for using parables to teach his followers, plus examples of other New Testament stories, are subject to lengthy yet informative analyses. The language the Bible uses, down to the individual chapters and verses, is subject to an annotated commentary. Trench commonly references other books in the Bible which compliment a given passage, as well as poignant classical literature from writers as diverse as Plato, Ovid and Seneca. The author on many occasions quotes the original Greek text of the Bible, in order to confer clarity to a given verse.

This complete collection of Richard Chenevix Trench's parable notes contains all thirty of his splendid commentaries complete with his introduction and preface. A renowned scholar of the Biblical texts who served as Archbishop of the Church of England, the author offers here a detailed and meticulous examination of thirty of the best-known Biblical parables. The words of Jesus Christ, who was renowned for using parables to teach his followers, plus examples of other New Testament stories, are subject to lengthy yet informative analyses. The language the Bible uses, down to the individual chapters and verses, is subject to an annotated commentary. Trench commonly references other books in the Bible which compliment a given passage, as well as poignant classical literature from writers as diverse as Plato, Ovid and Seneca. The author on many occasions quotes the original Greek text of the Bible, in order to confer clarity to a given verse.