Excerpt from An Exposition of the Old and New Testament, Vol. 1 of 5: Wherein Each Chapter Is Summed in Contents; The Sacred Text Inserted at Large in Distinct Paragraphs; Each Paragraph Reduced to Its Proper Heads; The Sense Given and Largely Illustrated; With Practical Remarks and Observations
But, while we contend that our Author is a sound and ingenious Expositor, as it relates to the literal interpreta tion of Scripture; yet we do not found his claim to preeminence on his critical acumen, or profound erudition, but on qualities which 3 all now be distinctly brought into View.
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Henry's well-known Exposition of the Old and New Testaments (1708-1710) is a commentary of a practical and devotional rather than of a critical kind, covering the whole of the Old Testament, and the Gospels and Acts in the New Testament. After the author's death, the work was finished by a number of ministers, and edited by George Burder and John Hughes in 1811. Not a work of textual criticism, its attempt at good sense, discrimination, its high moral tone and simple piety with practical application, combined with the well-sustained flow of its English style, made it one of the most popular works of its type. Matthew Henry's six volume Complete Commentary, originally published in 1706, provides an exhaustive verse by verse study of the Bible. His commentaries are still in use to this day.
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