http://betweenthetimes.com/2009/06/09/helpful-historical-commentary-series/ Sat, 11 Feb 2012 17:32:23 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 http://betweenthetimes.com/2009/06/09/helpful-historical-commentary-series/comment-page-1/#comment-729 Matt Easter Wed, 10 Jun 2009 01:31:01 +0000 http://betweenthetimes.com/?p=803#comment-729 I agree. I have also found pre-modern commentaries very helpful. I actually used McKinion's volume a couple of weeks ago. I haven't used The Church's Bible, but each of the Ancient Christian Commentary volumes I have used (Isaiah 1-39; Romans; Hebrews; Revelation; and others, I think) have been great. The challenge for me with this series is to try and be faithful to the context of the interpreters surveyed. The temptation is to use the commentary in a proof-texting way without really doing justice to the argument. (This is a temptation for me - I am not ascribing this fault to the editors of the commentary.) As you said, I would definitely encourage everyone to check out these resources. I agree. I have also found pre-modern commentaries very helpful. I actually used McKinion’s volume a couple of weeks ago. I haven’t used The Church’s Bible, but each of the Ancient Christian Commentary volumes I have used (Isaiah 1-39; Romans; Hebrews; Revelation; and others, I think) have been great. The challenge for me with this series is to try and be faithful to the context of the interpreters surveyed. The temptation is to use the commentary in a proof-texting way without really doing justice to the argument. (This is a temptation for me – I am not ascribing this fault to the editors of the commentary.) As you said, I would definitely encourage everyone to check out these resources.

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