What I wrote in the Preface to the eighth edition of this book about the want of any considerable work dealing with Greek synonyms needs a certain qualification now. Of J. H. H. Schmidt’s Synonymik der Griechischen Sprache, two volumes (1876, 1879) have appeared. How many more will follow it is impossible to guess. There would be much to say on this book of an accomplished scholar, who evidently grudged no amount of toil in its preparation, if it became me to criticize it, or if this were the place to do so. This, however, I will observe—namely, that while much may be learned from this book, it altogether fails to satisfy the needs of the theological student. The writer’s whole interest is in Homeric and Attic Greek. Having had his book constantly in my hand while preparing a new edition of this present work, I have not lighted there upon more than two citations from the N. T., and not so much as one from the Septuagint. There may be more, but these cannot be very many. In Greek as one of the two great languages of Revelation, and in the various providential means by which it was formed and fashioned to be an adequate vehicle of this Revelation, in all this Schmidt has apparently no interest whatever; does not so much as seem to perceive that there is a great subject before him.
Broomfield, September 3, 1880.
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