Excerpt from The Minor Prophets: Nahum, Habakkuk, Zephaniah, Haggai, Zechariah, Malachi Introductions

The aim of the present Commentary is to explain the prophets, whose writings it embraces, in the light of history, to make their words intelligible to modern readers, so far as our knowledge enables us to do so, in the sense which they conveyed to those who first heard or read them. This I understand to be the primary duty of a Commentary on the poetical or prophetical writings of the Old Testament, and to be the intention of the volumes in the present series. The gifted men of old who spake, 'being borne along by the Holy Ghost,' were, each and all, the children of their own times: each had his own distinctive individuality, but each, as he spoke or wrote, had his eye steadily fixed on the questions of national interest prominent at the time, on the social, moral, or religious needs of his fellow countrymen, on contemporary political movements in the world outside; each either judged the present, or looked out into the future, from the standpoint of his own age.

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