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VirginiaHuguenot · #7 (**permalink**) 10-08-2006, 09:48 PM

From the Journal of Sacred Literature (July - October 1848), p. 223:

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Matthew Henry commenced his Exposition in the closing part of the year 1704, whilst he was minister at Chester; and two years afterwards (Nov. 1706) the first part of it, comprising the Pentateuch, was published in one volume folio. A second volume, extending to the close of the historical books, was ready by the middle of 1708; a third, comprising the poetical books, was published in March, 1710; a fourth, including the Prophets, and thus finishing the Old Testament, appeared in the middle of 1712, after he had settled at Hackney; a fifth volume, embracing the Gospels and Acts, was ready by the end of April, 1714; and some progress had been made by him in preparing a sixth, which was designed to include the Epistles, when his valuable life was cut short by death on the 22nd of June, 1714. The notes which he had written on the Romans were so complete as to need only to be epitomized and arranged, which was done by Dr. John Evans; and his design out to completion by the labours of others of his friends and admirers, who took each one of the remaining books of the New Testament, and endeavoured to write a commentary on it in Henry's style and method, and in some cases with the help of notes which he had left behind or which had been taken down in short-hand from his pulpit expositions. The parties thus employed, with the portion executed by each, were the following: -- Mr. Simon Browne, 1 Cor.; Mr. Daniel May, 2 Cor.; Mr. Joshua Bayes, Galatians; Mr. Samuel Roswell, Ephesians; Dr. William Harris, Philippians and Colossians; Mr. Daniel Mayo, 1 and 2 Thessalonians; Mr. Benjamin Andrews Atkinson, 1 and 2 Timothy; Mr. Jeremiah Smith, Titus and Philemon; Mr. William Tong, Hebrews; Dr. S. Wright, James; Mr. Zech. Merrill, 1 Peter; Mr. Joseph Hill, 2 Peter; Mr. John Reynolds, 1, 2, and 3 John; Mr. John Billingsby, Jude; Mr. W. Tong, Revelations.