Commentary Series & Study Bibles Themed from Church History

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Commentary Series
.      Heathens
.      Early & Medieval Church
.      Reformation
Study Bibles & Bible Notes

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About

The main part of this collection consists of modern, whole Bible commentary series and Study Bibles which provide a selection, or anthology, of writers from a given period of history on the Biblical books.

As this genera of literature includes websites that have made extensive online collections of such primary source authors from Church history on the Biblical books (such as from the early and medieval Church), so these websites have been included here.

This page does not include:

(1) Series where each volume is a commentary on a whole BIblical book written by one author from that time period.  For that, see The Early & Medieval Church Fathers on Scripture.

(2) Full whole Bible commentaries written by one person, or many persons, from that time period.  For those, see the previous link and Reformation & Puritan Bible Commentaries, as well as our page of older Bible Commentaries generally.  Note, though, that more sparse notes on the whole Bible by such persons in history (similar to modern study Bibles) are included here.

This page can be searched in most browsers by pressing ‘control’ and ‘f’ together; then enter your search term, such as a book of the Bible.

As more and more of these works become fully available online (as some already are), they will be linked on this page.  Check back in the future.

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Commentary Series & Sites Themed from Church History

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Order of Works

From Heathens
.     Millington

Early & Medieval Church
.     Ancient Christian Commentary
.     Bible in Medieval Tradition
.     CatenaBible.com
.     Patristic Bible Commentary

Reformation
.     Reformation Commentary on Scripture

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Testomonies from the Heathens

ed. Millington, Thomas – The Testimony of the Heathen to the Truths of Holy Writ: A Commentary on the Old and New Testaments, compiled almost exclusively from Greek and Latin authors of the Classical Ages of Antiquity  (1863)  675 pp.

Invaluable; this is a one of a kind gem!  This commentary is wholly composed of quotes from heathens verifying from general revelation and history the truths of God’s Word, Genesis to Revelation.  The title page quotes John 1:5, ‘And the Light shines in darkness, and the darkness comprehends it not.’  Open up the work and skim a taste of it.

**  ‘It was a capital idea to lay the heathen under contribution [to the Bible].  The author is at home in the Classics, and has performed the work well.’ – Spurgeon

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Early & Medieval Church Commentaries

In Print

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Ancient Christian Commentary  Buy

About

This is a great way to be introduced to and get familiar with the Biblical commentary of the early early Church fathers.  Most verses in the Bible are commented on by way of one or two paragraph snippets from the writings of the fathers, with helpful background info.  Well done.

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Ancient Christian Commentary

Genesis 1-11  Andrew Louth  2001
Genesis 12-50  Mark Sheridan  2002
Exodus – Deuteronomy  Joseph Lienhard  2001

Joshua – 2 Samuel  John Franke  2005
1 Kings – Esther  Marco Conti  2008
Job  Manlio Simonetti  2006

Psalms 1-50  Craig Blaising & Carmen Hardin  2008
Psalms 51-150  Quentin Wesselschmidt  2007
Proverbs – Song J. Robert Wright  2005
Isaiah 1-39  Steven McKinion  2004

Isaiah 40-66  Mark Elliott  2007
Jeremiah – Lamentations  Dean Wenthe  2009
Ezekiel – Daniel  Kenneth Stevenson  2008
Minor Prophets  Alberto Ferreiro  2003

Matthew 1-13, 14-28  Manlio Simonetti  2001
Mark  Christopher Hall  2005
Luke  Arthur Just  2003
John 1-10, 11-21  Joel Elowsky  2007

Acts  Francis Martin  2006
Romans  Gerald Bray  2005
1-2 Corinthians  Gerald Bray  2006

Galatians – Philippians  Mark Edwards  2005
Colossians – Philemon  Peter Gorday
Hebrews  Philip Krey & Eric Heen  2005

James – Jude  Gerald Bray  2000
Revelation  William Weinrich  2005

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The Bible in Medieval Tradition  Buy

Genesis  Joy A. Schroeder  2015
Jeremiah  Joy A. Schroeder  2017

Romans  Levy, Krey, Ryan  2013
Galatians  Ian Christopher Levy  2011
Revelation  David Burr  2019

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Online

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Catena Bible

CatenaBible.com

By far and away the best site that has collated commentaries on nearly every verse of the Bible from the patristics and medieval writers.  Includes thousands of commentaries; just click on the book, chapter and verse of the Bible you are interested in.

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Patristic Bible Commentary

Patristic Bible Commentary

This site is easy to navigate and has a significant amount of the works of the Fathers in English that are not easy to find elsewhere.

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The Reformation Era

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Reformation Commentary on Scripture

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The purpose of this commentary series is to give a sampling of the protestant Reformation’s Bible interpretation by way of 1-2 paragraph samplings, with background info, from various Reformation era figures.  This is a great way to get familiar with some lesser known reformers and their writings.  Some are newly translated for this volume.  Because the series is focused on the history of the Reformation, some non-reformed folk are included as well, such as Anabaptists and Arminians, etc.  The volumes are well done.

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Reformation Commentary on Scripture

Genesis 1-11  John L. Thompson  2012
Genesis 12-50
Exodus – Deuteronomy

Joshua – Ruth  N. Scott Amos  2020
Samuel – Chronicles  Derek Cooper & Martin Lohrmann
Ezra – Esther
Job

Psalms 1-72  Herman J. Selderhuis
Psalms 73-150  Herman J. Selderhuis
Proverbs

Isaiah
Jeremiah – Lamentations  J. Jeffery Tyler  2018
Ezekiel – Daniel  Carl Beckwith  2012
Minor Prophets

Matthew  Jason Lee & William Marsh  2021
Mark
Luke  Beth Kreitzer  2015
John 1-12  Craig S. Farmer
John 13-21  Christopher Brown  2021

Acts  Esther Chung-Kim & Todd Hains  2014
Romans 1-8  Gwenfair Adams
Romans 9-16  Philip D.W. Krey & Peter D.S. Krey
1 Corinthians  Scott M. Manetsch
2 Corinthians  Scott M. Manetsch  2022

Galatians – Ephesians  Gerald L. Bray
Philippians – Colossians  Graham Tomlin
1 Thessalonians – Philemon  Lee Gatis & Bradley Green
Hebrews & James  Ronald K. Rittgers

1 John – Jude
Revelation

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Study Bibles & Bible Notes

Themed from Church History

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Order of:

Early & Medieval Church
.     Orthodox Study Bible

Reformation
.     The Reformation Study Bible
.     The Reformation Heritage Study Bible
.     Martin Luther
.     Geneva Bible Annotations
.     King James Translators’ Notes

1700’s
.     Matthew Henry’s Study Bible
.     Edwards, Jonathan

1800’s
.      Charles Spurgeon

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The Early & Medieval Church

The Orthodox Study Bible: New Testament & Psalms  Buy  (Thomas Nelson, 1993)  IA

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The Reformation

ed. Sproul, R.C. – Reformation Study Bible  (2001)

ed. Beeke, Joel – The Reformation Heritage KJV Study Bible  Buy  (n.d.)

Luther, Martin – Prefaces to the Books of the Bible  Not every book is commented on.

These introductory prefaces are great for the beginner reading through the books of the Bible for the first time, to get a summary of them and to know what is important in each one.  They are also edifying to the experienced reader.

Various – The Geneva Bible Annotations  (1599)  Authors includ: John Calvin, John Knox, Theodore Beza, Miles Coverdale, William Whittingham, Anthony Gilby, Christoper Goodman, Thomas Sampson, William Cole, William Keithe, Laurance Tomson, Franciscus Junius, John Bale, Heinrich Bullinger et al.

See the link for an introduction to these historically influential Bible notes from your favorite reformers at Geneva and other places.  The notes, intending to be only marginal notes, unfortunately are often concise and sparse.

Various – The King James Version’s Translator’s Notes  (1611)

These are the alternate translations for the Hebrew and Greek verses from the King James translators themselves.

These are reliable alternate translations from a reliable textual base, and these alternate translational readings lack the loose translation philosophy of many translational philosophies today found in many popular Bibles.

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1700’s

The Matthew Henry Study Bible (KJV)  Buy

This was not actually arranged by Matthew Henry, but was arranged by modern editors from Matthew Henry’s Commentary.

Edwards, Jonathan

Notes on the Bible in Select Works, vol. 2, p. 676 ff.  (d. 1758)  140 pp. double columned

These are not necessarily expositions, but meditations and thoughts on various texts throughout the Bible written in Edwards’ spare hours.

The Blank Bible  being WJE Online, Vol. 24

Sermon Index (Canonical) at Yale’s Jonathan Edwards’ Center

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1800’s

Spurgeon, Charles – Verse Expositions of the Bible

Spurgeon (d. 1892) was a famed, mid-1800’s, English, Reformed Baptist.

This is a collection of the brief spontaneous comments Spurgeon would give while reading a passage of Scripture before his sermons.  Not every verse is commented on.

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Related Pages

Bible Commentaries

Reformation & Puritan Bible Commentaries

The Early & Medieval Church Fathers on Scripture

Modern Whole Bible Commentaries

The Writings of the Early & Medieval Church Fathers & Further Primary Sources in Latin, Greek & Other Languages