加尔文：圣经注释

督教会在其文学领域有着丰富且无 比拟的财富，但这需要代代传承。基 教历代名著集成旨在用英语呈现16 纪末前最不可或缺的基督教精选论 ，共26卷，书本便于携带。

The Christian Church possesses in its 基 literature an abundant and incomparable 可 treasure. But it is an inheritance that must 督 be reclaimed by each generation. THE 世 LIBRARY OF CHRISTIAN CLASSICS 述 is designed to present in the English language, and in twenty-six volumes of convenient size, a selection of the most indispensable Christian treatises written prior to the end of the sixteenth century.

基督教历史的开端，著作因其卓越的 值或读者的特别爱好而被接受，进而 行流通。规范化圣经本身就来源于更 阔的文学领域。在教父时代，出现了 批作品的汇编，其中汇集了德高望重 的观点，作为广泛的参考资料，到了 世纪，这类作品被大量地推出。实际 ，这些中世纪的文集保留了一些著述 的宝贵资料，否则都将流失。

The practice of giving circulation to 在 writings selected for superior worth or 价 special interest was adopted at the 发 beginning of Christian history. The 广 canonical Scriptures were themselves a 一 selection from a much wider literature. In 者 the Patristic era there began to appear a 中 class of works of compilation (often 上 designed for ready reference in 中 controversy) of the opinions of well-reputed predecessors, and in the Middle Ages many such works were produced. These medieval anthologies actually preserve some noteworthy materials from works otherwise lost.

如今，即使是那些在大学和神学院中 习过的人，也难以熟练地、毫不费力 阅读拉丁文和希腊文，所以把重要的 期基督教文献翻译成现代语言变得 前重要。同时，大量用地方语言，如 语完成的著作也是文库中必不可少 选材。我们为了满足这种需求所付出 努力在此已不胜枚举，但对于那些向 一个可以跨越整个基督教世纪、拥有 表性论述的文库的读者而言，这些收 仍不足以满足需求。大多数图书馆馆 只包括教父时期的作品，并且其中一 已经绝版。已经被翻译的作品在进行 新翻译时会被增添许多新的阐述。即

In modern times, with the increasing 现 inability even of those trained in 学 universities and theological colleges to 地 read Latin and Greek texts with ease and 早 familiarity, the translation of selected 空 portions of earlier Christian literature into 英 modern languages has become more 的 necessary than ever; while the wide range 的 of distinguished books written in 往 vernaculars such as English makes 代 selection there also needful. The efforts 集 that have been made to meet this need are 藏 too numerous to be noted here, but none 些 of these collections serves the purpose of 重

经的翻译也是如此，尽管经过诸 专家学者共同的努力。在某些情 这个系列中沿用了一些旧的翻译 但是在必要的地方，又提供了新 。我们在需要阐述作者意图的地 注释。为一些文章与摘要提供了 欢迎提供指导。

the reader who desires a library of 使对圣 representative treatises spanning the 世纪的 Christian centuries as a whole. Most of 况下， them embrace only the age of the Church 方法， Fathers, and some of them have long 的解释 been out of print. A fresh translation of a 方做了 work already translated may shed much 说明。 new light upon its meaning. This is true even of Bible translations despite the work of many experts through the centuries. In some instances old translations have been adopted in this series, but wherever necessary or desirable, new ones have been made. Notes have been supplied where these were needed to explain the author’s meaning. The introductions provided for the several treatises and extracts will, we believes furnish welcome guidance.