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Matthew Henry
|     | 9 | 12.50% | |
John Gill
|    | 14 | 19.44% | |
Matthew Poole
|    | 9 | 12.50% | |
John Calvin
|    | 39 | 54.17% | |
John Trapp
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I go for John Gill first,  John Calvin second,  Matthew Henry third.
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| | I say Calvin first, Henry second and Gill third. Though Gill is gaining more esteem in my opinion the more I read from him. 
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| | | Do I really have to choose just one???
I chose Mathew Henry because his is the only complete work of the group. (or at least the only one I have used. |
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Originally Posted by Spear Dane  is Gill online anywhere? | Sure, it's available right here.
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Originally Posted by Spear Dane is Gill online anywhere? | I like this site as well: Classic Bible Commentaries
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| | My personal top 3 favorites are Poole, Henry, and Calvin.
A couple of plugs for Poole:
Charles Spurgeon, Commenting and Commentaries: Quote: |
On the whole, if I must have only one commentary, and had read Matthew Henry as I have, I do not know but what I should choose Poole. He is a very prudent and judicious commentator; and one of the few who could honestly say, "We have not willingly balked any obvious difficulty, and have designed a just satisfaction to all our readers; and if any knot remains yet untied, we have told our readers what hath been most probably said for their satisfaction in the untying of it." Poole is not so pithy and witty by far as Matthew Henry, but he is perhaps more accurate, less a commentator, and more an expositor. You meet with no ostentation of learning in Matthew Poole, and that for the simple reason that he was so profoundly learned as to be able to give results without a display of his intellectual crockery.
| Joel Beeke & Randall Pederson, Meet the Puritans, p. 487: Quote:
Poole's commentary is somewhat shorter than Henry's and somewhat longer than The Dutch Annotations, which are well known in the Netherlands. Richard Cecil observed, "Commentators are excellent where there are few difficulties; but they leave the harder knots still untied; but after all, Poole is incomparable."
In our opinion, this is the best basic Puritan commentary for daily Bible study.
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Originally Posted by VirginiaHuguenot My personal top 3 favorites are Poole, Henry, and Calvin.
A couple of plugs for Poole:
Charles Spurgeon, Commenting and Commentaries: Quote: |
On the whole, if I must have only one commentary, and had read Matthew Henry as I have, I do not know but what I should choose Poole. He is a very prudent and judicious commentator; and one of the few who could honestly say, "We have not willingly balked any obvious difficulty, and have designed a just satisfaction to all our readers; and if any knot remains yet untied, we have told our readers what hath been most probably said for their satisfaction in the untying of it." Poole is not so pithy and witty by far as Matthew Henry, but he is perhaps more accurate, less a commentator, and more an expositor. You meet with no ostentation of learning in Matthew Poole, and that for the simple reason that he was so profoundly learned as to be able to give results without a display of his intellectual crockery.
| Joel Beeke & Randall Pederson, Meet the Puritans, p. 487: Quote:
Poole's commentary is somewhat shorter than Henry's and somewhat longer than The Dutch Annotations, which are well known in the Netherlands. Richard Cecil observed, "Commentators are excellent where there are few difficulties; but they leave the harder knots still untied; but after all, Poole is incomparable."
In our opinion, this is the best basic Puritan commentary for daily Bible study.
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Poole seems to be the one I use the most frequently for my daily devotional reading. |
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Originally Posted by VirginiaHuguenot My personal top 3 favorites are Poole, Henry, and Calvin.
A couple of plugs for Poole:
Charles Spurgeon, Commenting and Commentaries: Quote: |
On the whole, if I must have only one commentary, and had read Matthew Henry as I have, I do not know but what I should choose Poole. He is a very prudent and judicious commentator; and one of the few who could honestly say, "We have not willingly balked any obvious difficulty, and have designed a just satisfaction to all our readers; and if any knot remains yet untied, we have told our readers what hath been most probably said for their satisfaction in the untying of it." Poole is not so pithy and witty by far as Matthew Henry, but he is perhaps more accurate, less a commentator, and more an expositor. You meet with no ostentation of learning in Matthew Poole, and that for the simple reason that he was so profoundly learned as to be able to give results without a display of his intellectual crockery.
| Joel Beeke & Randall Pederson, Meet the Puritans, p. 487: Quote:
Poole's commentary is somewhat shorter than Henry's and somewhat longer than The Dutch Annotations, which are well known in the Netherlands. Richard Cecil observed, "Commentators are excellent where there are few difficulties; but they leave the harder knots still untied; but after all, Poole is incomparable."
In our opinion, this is the best basic Puritan commentary for daily Bible study.
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Originally Posted by Daniel Ritchie Quote:
Originally Posted by VirginiaHuguenot My personal top 3 favorites are Poole, Henry, and Calvin.
A couple of plugs for Poole:
Charles Spurgeon, Commenting and Commentaries: Quote: |
On the whole, if I must have only one commentary, and had read Matthew Henry as I have, I do not know but what I should choose Poole. He is a very prudent and judicious commentator; and one of the few who could honestly say, "We have not willingly balked any obvious difficulty, and have designed a just satisfaction to all our readers; and if any knot remains yet untied, we have told our readers what hath been most probably said for their satisfaction in the untying of it." Poole is not so pithy and witty by far as Matthew Henry, but he is perhaps more accurate, less a commentator, and more an expositor. You meet with no ostentation of learning in Matthew Poole, and that for the simple reason that he was so profoundly learned as to be able to give results without a display of his intellectual crockery.
| Joel Beeke & Randall Pederson, Meet the Puritans, p. 487: Quote:
Poole's commentary is somewhat shorter than Henry's and somewhat longer than The Dutch Annotations, which are well known in the Netherlands. Richard Cecil observed, "Commentators are excellent where there are few difficulties; but they leave the harder knots still untied; but after all, Poole is incomparable."
In our opinion, this is the best basic Puritan commentary for daily Bible study.
| | Are the Dutch Annotations on line anywhere in English? | I don't believe so. The English facsimile is available at Reformation Heritage Books. Inheritance Publications is reprinting it in modern English too. It's also available on CD in pdf form from Still Water Revival Books. |
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Originally Posted by JM Who's John Trapp? | An older Bible commentator  . |
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| | | I thought only Anglicans read Trapp. The results of this poll indicates that may be the case. Is he online anywhere?
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| | | I like Gill, I have his complete works on disc. I have Calvin's institutes but none of his Bible commentaries. I have Matthew Henry's commentary all in one volume (the one with the real small print that's extreemly hard to read) and appreciate his work as well.
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Originally Posted by JM Who's John Trapp? | Here's a brief article on him. He is also referenced by Beeke & Pederson in Meet the Puritans. Quote:
Originally Posted by yeutter I thought only Anglicans read Trapp. The results of this poll indicates that may be the case. Is he online anywhere? | I read him; he's just not in my top three. Charles Spurgeon spoke very highly of him. However, as far as I know, he is not online. | | The Following User Says Thank You to VirginiaHuguenot For This Useful Post: | |
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| | | I lead a small group that is studying the OT right now, and Gill's commentary which incorporates Jewish historians' commentary has been VERY helpful. So much so that I really want to get it in print and not just on eSword.
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| | Well Calvin is running away with this one . Still not a single vote for John Trapp. |
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Originally Posted by Daniel Ritchie Well Calvin is running away with this one . Still not a single vote for John Trapp. | Maybe it's because not very many people have read Gill or Poole, Henry is a little too general in his writings, and no one has heard of Trapp. |
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