Note 634 — 1765.

Dr. Adam Clarke, in the general preface to his commentary, says that Wesley’s notes on the Old Testament are “meagre and unsatisfactory”; and, that Wesley himself told him, that this was owing to “Mr. Pine, the printer, who having set up and printed off several sheets in a type much larger than was intended, it was found impossible to get the work within the prescribed limits of four volumes, without retrenching the notes, or cancelling what was already printed. The former measure was unfortunately adopted.” It is difficult to reconcile Clarke’s statement with Wesley’s advertisement.