Editorial Note: If you are not proficient in Greek, you will find
this work considerably more useful than the following work by Alford,
because in this volume he translates the Greek and Latin into English.
While the "The Greek New Testament" is longer (e.g., English version
of 1John = 66 pages compared to Greek version = 94 pages
in part because the latter includes comments of more technical
nature), the substance of the commentary is otherwise similar to that
found in the "NT for English Readers".
Henry Alford The Greek New
Testament 1 CorinthiansCommentary
Recommended
James Rosscup writes that "This was the great work in the life of
the versatile Dean of Canterbury. An outcome of this production was
the New Testament for English Readers (4 vols.). Alford was a
Calvinist, conservative and premillennial, though not dispensational.
He takes a literal interpretation of the thousand years in Rev. 20 and
has a famous quote there, is strong on sovereign election as in Ro
8:29, 30 and 1Pe 1:2, but, unfortunately, holds to baptismal
regeneration in such texts as Titus 3:5 and John 3:5. He shows a great
knowledge of the Greek text and faces problems of both a doctrinal and
textual nature." (Commentaries
for Biblical Expositors: An Annotated Bibliography of Selected Works
or
Logos)
John
Piper writes ""When I’m stumped with a...grammatical or
syntactical or logical [question] in Paul, I go to Henry Alford. Henry
Alford...comes closer more consistently than any other human
commentator to asking my kinds of questions."
Charles Haddon Spurgeon writes that this text
"is an invaluable aid to the critical study of the text of the New
Testament. You will find in it the ripened results of a matured
scholarship, the harvesting of a judgment, generally highly impartial,
always worthy of respect, which has gleaned from the most important
fields of Biblical research, both modern and ancient, at home and
abroad. You will not look here for any spirituality of thought or
tenderness of feeling; you will find the learned Dean does not forget
to do full justice to his own views, and is quite able to express
himself vigorously against his opponents; but for what it professes to
be, it is an exceedingly able and successful work. The later issues
are by far the most desirable, as the author has considerably revised
the work in the fourth edition. What I have said of his Greek
Testament applies equally to Alford’s New Testament for English
Readers,* which is also a standard work." (Spurgeon,
C. H. Lectures to my Students, Vol. 4: Commenting and Commentaries;
Lectures Addressed to the students of the Pastors' College,
Metropolitan Tabernacle)
Albert
Barnes Notes on the New
Testament
Commentary on 1 Corinthians
James Rosscup
writes that Barnes "includes 16 volumes on the Old Testament, 11 on the New
Testament. The New Testament part of this old work was first published in
1832–1851. Various authors contributed. It is evangelical and
amillennial...Often the explanations of verses are very worthwhile."
(Commentaries
for Biblical Expositors: An Annotated Bibliography of Selected Works
or
Logos)
C H Spurgeon
"Albert Barnes is a learned and able divine, but his productions are unequal in
value, the gospels are of comparatively little worth, but his other comments are
extremely useful for Sunday-school teachers and persons with a narrow range of
reading, endowed with enough good sense to discriminate between good and
evil....Placed by the side of the great masters, Barnes is a lesser light, but
taking his work for what it is and professes to be, no minister can afford to be
without it, and this is no small praise for works which were only intended for
Sunday-school teachers." (Spurgeon,
C. H. Lectures to my Students, Vol. 4: Commenting and Commentaries; Lectures
Addressed to the students of the Pastors' College, Metropolitan Tabernacle)
Johann A Bengel Commentary Notes on 1
Corinthians
The "Gnomon of the New Testament" (1877) Note: If not proficient in Greek, see
related Critical English Testament below.
James Rosscup writes "This work (Gnomon), originally issued in
1742, has considerable comment on the Greek, flavoring the effort with
judicious details about the spiritual life. It has much that helps,
but has been surpassed by many other commentaries since its day." (Commentaries
for Biblical Expositors: An Annotated Bibliography of Selected Works
or
Logos)
Johann Bengel
The Critical English Testament Commentary on 1
Corinthians
Represents Combination of Bengel's Gnomon (above) and
Comments
by more modern expositors (in brackets) to make this more usable for
those who do not read Greek.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon -- "'A Critical New
Testament, so compiled as to enable a reader, unacquainted with Greek,
to ascertain the exact English force and meaning of the language of
the New Testament, and to appreciate the latest results of modern
criticism.' Such is the professed aim of this commentary, and the
compilers have very fairly carried out their intentions. The whole of
Bengel’s Gnomon is bodily transferred into the work, and as one
hundred and twenty years have elapsed since the first issue of that
book, it may be supposed that much has since been added to the wealth
of Scripture exposition; the substance of this has been incorporated
in brackets, so as to bring it down to the present advanced state of
knowledge. We strongly advise the purchase of this book, as it is
multum in parvo, and will well repay an attentive perusal. Tischendorf
and Alford have contributed largely, with other German and English
critics, to make this one of the most lucid and concise commentaries
on the text and teachings of the New Testament" (Spurgeon,
C. H. Lectures to my Students, Vol. 4: Commenting and Commentaries;
Lectures Addressed to the students of the Pastors' College,
Metropolitan Tabernacle)
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