APOCRYPHA BY BERNARD J. SNELL, M.A., B.Sc. AUTHOR OF "GAIN OR LOSS?" ETC. LONDON JAMES CLARKE & CO., 13 & 14, FLEET STREET 1905 PREFACE Ir has been my custom to imitate my predecessor, the late Baldwin Brown, by delivering every winter on successive Sunday evenings a series of "Lectures" on some religious subject that could not with advantage be brought under ordinary pulpit treatment. From time to time I have received expression of the wish that I might give such guidance as lay within my power on the subject of the Apocrypha. Three years ago I promised the fulfilment of this suggestion, and I have now thrown into form the results of my reading in this direction. I have not the slightest claim to scholarship on this recondite subject, and frequently found myself "in wandering mazes lost" amid the jungle of Apocalyptic and Talmudic literature. But finally I ventured to |