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Excerpt from Biblical Theology of the New Testament, Vol. 1
Since this book appeared for the second time, much thorough work has been done in the department of New Testament theology. It was therefore my duty, not only to make my readers acquainted in the proper place with all the works that bear upon the subject, but also to come to as thorough an understanding as possible with them. I hope that this time also I have succeeded in giving, throughout the whole book, not only my own conception of things, but also a picture of the various leading conceptions of them and of the principal points around which the scientific discussion of them turns. If, indeed, I have paid far more attention to some publications than to others, it is not any predilection whatever, far less their size, that has led me to do so, but the definiteness and importance of their results, as well as the solidity of the arguments with which these results are supported. It is absolutely impossible to come to an understanding with treatises which arrive at no clear, comprehensible result, or are destitute of any thorough argument Where both are found, it is at once a pleasure and a gain to give a careful consideration even to opinions that are very different from ones own, and I trust that this time also such a comparison has contributed much to the more precise statement and complete establishment, especially exegetically, of my own view.
No change has been made in the plan of the book; the numbers of all the chapters and paragraphs remain the same. It has been a source of great inward satisfaction to me that, notwithstanding the most accurate renewed working out of every detail, I found nothing to alter in this respect.
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