Commentators on Sacred Scripture are not agreed whether Mary of Magdala was the sister of Lazarus or whether there were two or three Marys connected with our LordMary the sister of Lazarus, Mary of Magdala, and Mary the sinner named in St. Luke's Gospel vii.

1867) is a compilation by two Anglican scholars, from the commentators of the Middle Ages.

[Footnote 7: It need hardly be explained that, in the case of a modern poet, these various readings are not like the conjectural guesses of critics and commentators as to what the original text was (as in the case of the Greek Poets, or of Dante, or even of Shakespeare).

He made some corrections of the text but never rashly; he selected the notes of other commentators with care; he added some excellent ones of his own, and wrote admirable critical and historical prefaces to the different plays.

“It is not a useful lesson for the young student to apply to Scripture principles which he would hesitate to apply to other books; to make formal reconcilements of discrepancies which he would not think of reconciling in ordinary history; to divide simple words into double meanings; to adopt the fancies or conjectures of Fathers and Commentators as real knowledge.”

This has occasioned great perplexity to commentators in endeavouring to explain his geography conformably with modern maps, and which even is often impossible to be done with any tolerable certainty.

It is divided by commentators into three parts (St. Luke 1, vv.

The prolific hint of "E.K." set the commentators at work,but hitherto without success.

Notes of the Commentators on Henry V., iii. 7 ("strait trossers").

Let then the commentators against whom I am providing, abjure the name of Briton, or let them pay the veneration that is due to a character, in every view of the subject, so exalted as that of your lordship.

" It is true, those words occur in the passage cited by the commentator from the "Faëry Queen"; most probably they refer to the person in dispute.

Moreover, as with the sayings of the Master or the unequalled verse of Shakespeare, questions of construction are more due to the commentators than to the text itself.

I have often to complain that too little attention is paid by commentators to the history and particular period in which certain speeches were delivered, or words written.

"[B] [Footnote B: Landino, and most of the commentators after him, state that Dante refers in this passage to the fear of the garrison taken in the place when it was recaptured the next year by the Pisans.