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The Expositor’s Bible: Psalms
by Alexander Maclaren
Brilliant elucidation of Scripture! The Psalms Vol. 1 by Alexander MacLaren reveals his skill in exposition! Ignoring questions regarding date and authorship, MacLaren focuses rather upon the deepest and most valuable elements in the Psalms. Vol 1 includes the first 38 psalms explained in the most systematic and connected form. With profound thoughts, logical arrangement and eloquent expression, they are appealing and powerful. Giving only the real meaning of the verse, his remarks are weighty, spiritual, and evocative. Highly valuable with unsurpassed beauty and spiritual insight!
"A priceless boon!" — The Baptist Times
"Dr. Maclaren is here at his best!" — Expositor
"He vivifies and illuminates these sublime stories!" — Scotsman
A veritable spiritual feast! The Psalms Vol. 2 by Alexander MacLaren expresses same high qualities and spiritual sympathy giving abundant proof of the care, critical study, and competence earlier scholars have contributed to the exposition of the Psalms. In a most attractive and animated style, he illuminates sublime truths and an unprecedented wealth of thought! Stirs you in your inner man to echo the same spirit in which the great psalmists composed them. The psalms truly come alive vibrantly! Excellent!
Amazing analysis and interpretation! The Psalms Vol. 3 by Alexander MacLaren continues to reveal the same degree of excellence as the other two volumes. MacLaren, described as "the supreme example, the perfect type, of the classic Protestant tradition of expository preaching" exhibits warmth and richness of metaphor and illustrations. Scholarly, yet easy to understand, these psalms show his ’exegetical skill ’ as based on a minute and accurate philology, his passion, spiritual insight, and intellectual power to sweep you into a breathtaking exploration. Remarkable!
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Kindle Edition, 1387 pages
Published December 6th 2017 by E4 Group
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Maclaren had been for almost sixty-five years a minister, entirely devoted to his calling. He lived more than almost any of the great preachers of his time between his study, his pulpit, his pen.
He subdued action to thought, thought to utterance and utterance to the Gospel. His life was his ministry; his ministry was his life. In 1842 he was enrolled as a candidate for the Baptist ministry at Stepney College, London. He was tall, shy, silent and looked no older than his sixteen years. But his vocation, as he himself (a consistent Calvinist) might have said, was divinely decreed. "I cannot ever recall any hesitation as to being a minister," he said. "It just had to be."
In the College he was thoroughly grounded in Greek and Hebrew. He was taught to study the Bible in the original and so the foundation was laid for his distinctive work as an expositor and for the biblical content of his preaching. Before Maclaren had finished his course of study he was invited to Portland Chapel in Southampton for three months; those three months became twelve years. He began his ministry there on June 28, 1846. His name and fame grew.
His ministry fell into a quiet routine for which he was always grateful: two sermons on Sunday, a Monday prayer meeting and a Thursday service and lecture. His parishioners thought his sermons to them were the best he ever preached. In April 1858 he was called to be minister at Union Chapel in Manchester. No ministry could have been happier. The church prospered and a new building had to be erected to seat 1,500; every sitting was taken. His renown as preacher spread throughout the English-speaking world. His pulpit became his throne. He was twice elected President of the Baptist Union. He resigned as pastor in 1905 after a ministry of forty-five years.
Maclaren's religious life was hid with Christ in God. He walked with God day by day. He loved Jesus Christ with a reverent, holy love and lived to make Him known. In his farewell sermon at Union he said: "To efface oneself is one of a preacher's first duties."
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