Bible Commentary

[JM]

Who else besides Gill has wrote a verse by verse commentary on the entire Bible? I was just wondering.

jm

 

[John Gill]

As far as I know, he is the only one.

 

[VirginiaHuguenot]

I may be mistaken, but here are some commentators on the whole Bible, to name a few (I'm certain there are more),...

Adam Clarke
John Trapp
John Diodati
John Mayer
Johannes Piscator
Robert Hawker
Charles John Ellicott
John Canne
Victorinus Strigel
Ludovici de Dieu
David Martin
Antoine Augustin Calmet
William Dodd
Robert Goadby
George Holden

And I don't know if you want to include John Brown of Haddington's Self-Interpreting Bible or Cotton Mather's Biblia Americana or Christopher Ness' A Compleat History and Mystery of the Old and New Testament.

 

[bookslover]

Don't forget Matthew Henry.

 

[TaylorOtwell]

Henry and others would sometimes commentate on passages. Gill commented on every single verse particularly and, as far as I know, is the only one to have ever done so.

Praise the Lord for men that have labored before us.

 

[JM]

I think Henry's commentary was completed by one or two others.

As far as I can tell Gill is still the only one to do a verse by verse on the whole Bible...interesting.

 

[Bygracealone]

What about the number of commentators Andrew listed in the third post?

 

[greenbaggins]

I think even though Matthew Poole did not complete his own commentary, his Synopsis Criticorum ought to count. I am somewhat surprised Andrew, of all people, did not mention this work. The amount of work that went into that set is at least as much as writing one's own commentary would have been, even though the comments are all by other people.

 

[Reformed Covenanter]

I think even though Matthew Poole did not complete his own commentary, his Synopsis Criticorum ought to count. I am somewhat surprised Andrew, of all people, did not mention this work. The amount of work that went into that set is at least as much as writing one's own commentary would have been, even though the comments are all by other people.

Lane, don't you know it is not a good idea to question Andrew's near-omniscience?

 

[greenbaggins]

Given the fact that he thanked that post, I can probably assume that I am forgiven.

 

[etexas]

I think even though Matthew Poole did not complete his own commentary, his Synopsis Criticorum ought to count. I am somewhat surprised Andrew, of all people, did not mention this work. The amount of work that went into that set is at least as much as writing one's own commentary would have been, even though the comments are all by other people.

Lane, don't you know it is not a good idea to question Andrew's near-omniscience?

Good one!

 

[etexas]

On a serious note, I have never read Gill, is there somewhere online I can check him out?

 

[greenbaggins]

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[JM]

What about the number of commentators Andrew listed in the third post?

I know Clarke didn't write a verse by verse commentary, I just looked and he skipps verses, the others I couldn't find online and know little about. Over the past few years I've heard it stated in sermons and read that Gill is the only one to complete a verse by verse without skipping any.

On a serious note, I have never read Gill, is there somewhere online I can check him out?

Gill's Archive

 

[Reformed Covenanter]

Given the fact that he thanked that post, I can probably assume that I am forgiven.

He is a merciful chap.

 

[etexas]

What about the number of commentators Andrew listed in the third post?

I know Clarke didn't write a verse by verse commentary, I just looked and he skipps verses, the others I couldn't find online and know little about. Over the past few years I've heard it stated in sermons and read that Gill is the only one to complete a verse by verse without skipping any.

On a serious note, I have never read Gill, is there somewhere online I can check him out?

Gill's Archive

Cool! Will give that a check-out!

 

[SolaGratia]

Commentaries

John Gill, Matthew Henry, Spurgeon, plus more..

Here; Classic Bible Commentaries

 

[AV1611]

I have never read Gill

 

[AV1611]

I know Clarke didn't write a verse by verse commentary, I just looked and he skipps verses, the others I couldn't find online and know little about. Over the past few years I've heard it stated in sermons and read that Gill is the only one to complete a verse by verse without skipping any.

John Gill was the first English man to write a verse-by-verse commentary of the whole Bible.

 

[bookslover]

Sounds like it's time for VirginiaHuguenot to give us the link to his John Gill biography. Oh, omnisicent one...

 

[AV1611]

John Gill biography

It is on the site Jason linked to

A Summary of the Life

 

[Reformed Covenanter]

On a serious note, I have never read Gill, is there somewhere online I can check him out?

You don't know what your missing.