Editorial Note: If you are not proficient in Greek, you will find
this work considerably more useful than the following work by Alford,
because in this volume he translates the Greek and Latin into English.
While the "The Greek New Testament" is longer (e.g., English version
of 1John = 66 pages compared to Greek version = 94 pages
in part because the latter includes comments of more technical
nature), the substance of the commentary is otherwise similar to that
found in the "NT for English Readers".
Henry Alford The Greek New
Testament 2 Corinthians
Commentary
Recommended
James Rosscup writes that "This was the great work in the life of
the versatile Dean of Canterbury. An outcome of this production was
the New Testament for English Readers (4 vols.). Alford was a
Calvinist, conservative and premillennial, though not dispensational.
He takes a literal interpretation of the thousand years in Rev. 20 and
has a famous quote there, is strong on sovereign election as in Ro
8:29, 30 and 1Pe 1:2, but, unfortunately, holds to baptismal
regeneration in such texts as Titus 3:5 and John 3:5. He shows a great
knowledge of the Greek text and faces problems of both a doctrinal and
textual nature." (Commentaries
for Biblical Expositors: An Annotated Bibliography of Selected Works
or
Logos)
John
Piper writes ""When I’m stumped with a...grammatical or
syntactical or logical [question] in Paul, I go to Henry Alford. Henry
Alford...comes closer more consistently than any other human
commentator to asking my kinds of questions."
Charles Haddon Spurgeon writes that this text
"is an invaluable aid to the critical study of the text of the New
Testament. You will find in it the ripened results of a matured
scholarship, the harvesting of a judgment, generally highly impartial,
always worthy of respect, which has gleaned from the most important
fields of Biblical research, both modern and ancient, at home and
abroad. You will not look here for any spirituality of thought or
tenderness of feeling; you will find the learned Dean does not forget
to do full justice to his own views, and is quite able to express
himself vigorously against his opponents; but for what it professes to
be, it is an exceedingly able and successful work. The later issues
are by far the most desirable, as the author has considerably revised
the work in the fourth edition. What I have said of his Greek
Testament applies equally to Alford’s New Testament for English
Readers,* which is also a standard work." (Spurgeon,
C. H. Lectures to my Students, Vol. 4: Commenting and Commentaries;
Lectures Addressed to the students of the Pastors' College,
Metropolitan Tabernacle)
Albert
Barnes Commentary on 2
Corinthians
Notes on the New
Testament
James Rosscup
writes that Barnes "includes 16 volumes on the Old Testament, 11 on the New
Testament. The New Testament part of this old work was first published in
1832–1851. Various authors contributed. It is evangelical and
amillennial...Often the explanations of verses are very worthwhile."
(Commentaries
for Biblical Expositors: An Annotated Bibliography of Selected Works
or
Logos)
C H Spurgeon
"Albert Barnes is a learned and able divine, but his productions are unequal in
value, the gospels are of comparatively little worth, but his other comments are
extremely useful for Sunday-school teachers and persons with a narrow range of
reading, endowed with enough good sense to discriminate between good and
evil....Placed by the side of the great masters, Barnes is a lesser light, but
taking his work for what it is and professes to be, no minister can afford to be
without it, and this is no small praise for works which were only intended for
Sunday-school teachers." (Spurgeon,
C. H. Lectures to my Students, Vol. 4: Commenting and Commentaries; Lectures
Addressed to the students of the Pastors' College, Metropolitan Tabernacle)
James Rosscup writes "This work (Gnomon), originally issued in
1742, has considerable comment on the Greek, flavoring the effort with
judicious details about the spiritual life. It has much that helps,
but has been surpassed by many other commentaries since its day." (Commentaries
for Biblical Expositors: An Annotated Bibliography of Selected Works
or
Logos)
H Spurgeon -- "'A Critical New Testament, so compiled as to enable
a reader, unacquainted with Greek, to ascertain the exact English
force and meaning of the language of the New Testament, and to
appreciate the latest results of modern criticism.' Such is the
professed aim of this commentary, and the compilers have very fairly
carried out their intentions. The whole of Bengel’s Gnomon is bodily
transferred into the work, and as one hundred and twenty years have
elapsed since the first issue of that book, it may be supposed that
much has since been added to the wealth of Scripture exposition; the
substance of this has been incorporated in brackets, so as to bring it
down to the present advanced state of knowledge. We strongly advise
the purchase of this book, as it is multum in parvo, and will well
repay an attentive perusal. Tischendorf and Alford have contributed
largely, with other German and English critics, to make this one of
the most lucid and concise commentaries on the text and teachings of
the New Testament" (Spurgeon,
C. H. Lectures to my Students, Vol. 4: Commenting and Commentaries;
Lectures Addressed to the students of the Pastors' College,
Metropolitan Tabernacle)
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