There is no part of the New Testament harder for a modern man to understand than the Letters. The Gospels are narrative; the Letters are argument: and argument is always more difficult to follow than narrative. And yet the Letters are of the greatest importance for it is in them, and in them alone, that we can trace the development of the Church and the Church's life and faith in the earliest days. In them we meet practical problems of life and conduct, and the even deeper problems presented by those who attacked and those who perverted the faith. The aim of this book is to translate these Letters, and in translating to interpret them, so that modern man may find, not only information about the past, but also guidance for the present.
William Barclay was an author, radio and television presenter, Church of Scotland minister and Professor of Divinity and Biblical Criticism at the University of Glasgow.
While professor, he decided to dedicate his life to "making the best biblical scholarship available to the average reader". The eventual result was the Daily Study Bible, a set of 17 commentaries on the New Testament, published by Saint Andrew Press, the Church of Scotland's publishing house.
The 17 volumes of the set were all best-sellers and continue to be so to this day. Barclay wrote many other popular books, always drawing on scholarship but written in a highly accessible style.
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