FACTS CONCERNING YOUNG'S ANALYTICAL CONCORDANCE.
By S. N. Haskell
1. It contains 118,000 more words than Cruden's Unabridged Concordance. 2. It gives with each English word the Hebrew and Greek original word from which it is translated, with its literal meaning, in a manner which makes it intelligible to any English reader. 3. It is well known that the same English word is frequently translated from different original words which either have different shades of meaning or even totally different meanings; the references are grouped under the different original words. 4. The original words are given in their Hebrew or Greek characters, then the pronunciation of them in English with their various meanings. 5. All the proper names of persons and places are inserted with their proper pronunciation and the literal meaning of each as far as at present can be ascertained. 6. The geographical, historical, and biographical remarks are generally limited to Biblical details, and the modern names of ascertained Bible sites have been given in accordance with the researches of the most reliable authors. The veracity of the Scriptures is thus incidentally confirmed by existing facts that cannot be denied or ignored, and are of priceless value. 7. In the edition we offer as a premium, there has been added a complete index to the Hebrew and Greek words found in Dr. Young's Concordance, referring them to the English words under which they are found. This index places within the reach of any English scholar what has heretofore been accessible only to those learned in the Hebrew and Greek languages, or by the aid of such expensive and often inaccessible reference works as Greek and Latin Lexicons, and the Englishman's Hebrew and Englishman's Greek Concordances. We quote two paragraphs entire from the "Prefatory Note" on the object and plan:— "Its great object, as Tyndale says of his New Testament, is to enable every 'PLOUGH-BOY' to know more of the Scripture than the 'ancients,' by enabling him at a glance to find out THREE DISTINCT POINTS—First, What is the original Hebrew or Greek of any ordinary word in his English Bible; Second, What is the literal and primitive meaning of every such original word: and Third, What are thoroughly true and reliable parallel passages. "In carrying out these three important points, the following plan has been adopted: First, One hundred and eighteen thousand references have been given, which are not found in Cruden. Second, Every passage in the New Testament which critical investigators, like Griesbach and Tischendorf, have noted as doubtful, or as having a various reading, has been marked by brackets. Third the proper name of every person and place has been given, with the literal meaning. Fourth, The date or era of every person, so as to distinguish him from every other of the same name. Fifth, The location of every place in its tribe, with the modern name (if identified), so as to form a complete Scripture Geography and Gazetteer." It also contains under "Hints and Helps to Bible Interpretation," seventy-one different headings of "Illustrations of Bible Idioms," comprising more than 1,400 references to texts of Scripture. This is very valuable to Bible students, especially to preachers. The Concordance contains 1,136 pages with three columns on a page. Probably there is no theological work extant in which some denominational errors may not be thought to exist, and even in this there may be some definitions of words which cater to present usages or customs, but to any wishing a Concordance we recommend this, taking it as a whole, as being the best we have ever seen.