In the CHRONOLOGY, great care has been taken to fix the date of the particular transactions, which has seldom been done with any degree of exactness in any former edition of the Bible.
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The NOTES are exclusively philological and explanatory, and are not tinctured with sentiments of any sect or party.

They are selected from the most eminent Biblical critics and commentators.
It is hoped that this edition of the Holy Bible will be found to contain the essence of Biblical research and criticism, that lies dispersed through an immense number of volumes.
Such is the nature and design of this edition of the Sacred Volume, which, from the various objects it embraces, the freedom of its pages from all sectarian peculiarities, and the beauty, plainness, and correctness of the typography, that it cannot fail of proving acceptable and useful to Christians of every denomination.
In addition to the usual references to parallel passages, which are quite full and numerous, the student has all the marginal readings, together with a rich selection of _Philological, Critical, Historical, Geographical_, and other valuable notes and remarks, which explain and illustrate the sacred text.

Besides the general introduction, containing valuable essays on the genuineness, authenticity, and inspiration of the Holy Scriptures, and other topics of interest, there are introductory and concluding remarks to each book--a table of the contents of the Bible, by which the different portions are so arranged as to read in an historical order.
Arranged at the top of each page is the period in which the prominent events of sacred history took place.

The calculations are made for the year of the world before and after Christ, Julian Period, the year of the Olympiad, the year of the building of Rome, and other notations of time.