I'm curious to learn more about the Bible commentaries I use. My favorites from past and present are
1) Bible Knowledge Commentary--gives context, solid, most helpful utilitarian one, my "go to"
1) (tied) TSK Cross Reference/Vincent's Word Studies--although not true commentaries, they allow me to "check" this Bible against itself. Gold.
2) Alexander MacLaren (wordy but beautiful)
3) Matthew Henry--he's really behind Biblical Illustrator now in terms of use---I went to him heavily for years, also wordy and beautiful, but I haven't used him as much in recent years, voluminous
4) Biblical Illustrator--a sort of mash up of his favorites, many older, sometimes beautiful, often too wordy
Ones I try but all get mixed up in my mind.....trying to learn more and sort them out:
JFB---This one volume commentary was prepared by Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset and David Brown and published in 1871. Amazon:
With its scholarly insights, Jamieson, Fausset and Brown's Commentary is to verse-by-verse exposition what the venerable Matthew Henry's Commentary is to devotional-style commentaries
who hear the word of God and do it."
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