From the PREFACE.
The pleasures of foxhunting are not to be compared with those of the student in full quest of some truth.
The labour involved has been very great, at times indeed oppressive, but it has not been without its own compensations; for the toil has been frequently lightened by the joys of discovery, and the task of research has been often one of sheer delight.
The many laborious years of study of the Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs see at last their close in the present volume.
From the PREFACE