The Expositor's Bible: The Book of Exodus

Academy.—“Dr. Chadwick has performed his task admirably. He keeps close to his subject, avoiding irrelevant and lengthy comment. He is thoughtful and penetrating in his criticism, and yet concise and epigrammatic when he wishes.”

Scotsman.—“It is at once scholarly, popular, and orthodox, and written in clear, vigorous English.”

Record.—“Dr. Chadwick’s style is characteristic, thoughtful, clear, and vigorous. He is never commonplace or trivial.”

English Churchman.—“A valuable, interesting, and delightful work, almost every page of which contains something worthy of quotation.”

Christian.—“If the volumes to come be like the one before us they may be sure of a warm welcome. Dr. Chadwick has caught something of the vividness of style and onward rush which characterise the writer he expounds. Sober in judgment, markedly Scriptural in tone, well acquainted with exegetical lore, and qualified by patient investigations to give an individual opinion on disputed points, he makes good his claim to help and instruct students of Mark’s Gospel.”

Methodist Recorder.—“We are glad to say that the beginning of a very promising series is, in our opinion, distinctly good, and that Dean Chadwick has hit the mark specially aimed at exceedingly well. We have found ourselves many sparkling and memorable sentences in his pages. We hope the ‘Expositor’s Bible’ has many other volumes in store as instructive as the first instalment.”

Expositor.—“Dean Chadwick’s readers, even in the first pages, become aware that they are in the company of a thoroughly original writer, who repeats nothing, echoes nothing, imitates no one. It is with a feeling of thankfulness his readers follow him from passage to passage of the Gospel, finding new truth in familiar words and incidents, and, unable to confine themselves to the limits they had set for their day’s reading, are lured on to trespass on to-morrow’s portion. There is every quality here that is desirable in an expositor—reverence for his text, sufficient information about it, sympathetic insight, and keen observation of men and manners. Equally successful in opening up the significance of the text and in applying it to present conditions of life, Dean Chadwick has given us an admirable specimen of what an expositor’s Bible should be.”

London Quarterly Review.—“Dr. Chadwick’s exposition is thoughtful and penetrating; his sentences are sharp and crisp.... Often bright aphoristic sayings occur which are likely to print themselves on the memory of the reader. The expositor would almost seem to resemble his subject in the practical and condensed, yet graphic, style in which he has done his expository work.”

Rock.—“The style of the commentary is, like its subject, forcible and terse.”

Church Bells.—“We have never yet read any commentary which we liked so well. The preacher will find it full of materials for sermons, fresh and vigorous, and yet calm and well-weighed.”

“The style of this book is so simple, the march of the thought so strong and unencumbered, and there is in the ripe result such a perfect assimilation of varied erudition, that none but fellow-craftsmen will realise the amount of study, industry, and many-sided ability that was requisite to produce it.”—Professor Elmslie, D.D.

“There can be no doubt of the care and thoroughness with which Dr. Blaikie has executed his task. From his own point of view he has produced a solid and able piece of work.”—Academy.

“Of the utmost value to preachers and teachers, being very full of suggestive thoughts.”—English Churchman.

“Dr. Chadwick has performed his task admirably. He keeps close to his subject, avoiding irrelevant and lengthy comment. He is thoughtful and penetrating in his criticism, and yet concise and epigrammatic when he wishes.”—Academy.

“It is at once scholarly, popular, and orthodox, and written in clear, vigorous English.”—Scotsman.

“In nothing Dr. Maclaren has written is there more of beauty, of spiritual insight, or of brilliant elucidation of Scripture. Indeed, Dr. Maclaren is here at his best.”—Expositor.

“The book is pre-eminently one for ministers, but there is nothing in the exposition which may not prove a boon to any diligent student of the Word of God. It contains a wealth of thought for preachers.”—Rock.

“He has entered into the spirit and purport of what truly he calls ‘one of the greatest and most difficult books of the New Testament’ with a systematic thoroughness and fairness which cannot be too highly commended. Henceforth English students of this portion of the New Testament will have only themselves to blame if they cannot trace the connection of thought and final purport of this epistle.”—Academy.

“This is a very attractive book. Mr. George Adam Smith has evidently such a mastery of the scholarship of his subject that it would be a sheer impertinence for most scholars, even though tolerable Hebraists, to criticise his translations; and certainly it is not the intention of the present reviewer to attempt anything of the kind, to do which he is absolutely incompetent. All we desire is to let English readers know how very lucid, impressive, and, indeed, how vivid a study of Isaiah is within their reach—the fault of the book, if it has a fault, being rather that it finds too many points of connection between Isaiah and our modern world, than that it finds too few. In other words, no one can say that the book is not full of life.”—Spectator.

“A clear, close, unaffected, unostentatious exposition, not verse by verse, but thought after thought of this most interesting, perhaps, and certainly most various, of all the Apostle’s writings.”—London Quarterly Review.

“Professor G.G. Findlay discloses a minute acquaintance with his subject, an earnest desire to penetrate its inmost meaning, and a marked capacity of illustrating and enforcing the text.”—Record.

“It is an admirable example of what popular theology ought to be—presuming a somewhat high level of education and interest in its readers, and built throughout upon sound erudition and sensible, devout, and well-disciplined reflection.”—Saturday Review.

“Full of felicities of exegesis.... Brilliant and valuable.”—Literary Churchman.

“The discourses are eloquent and impressive, and show a thorough knowledge of the subject.”—Scotsman.

“The most delightful work on the Apocalypse that we have read. The practical and spiritual teaching even of the most recondite and mysterious passages is made plain.”—Methodist Recorder.

“The distinctive peculiarities of New Testament Greek are defined with exactness, the gradations by which one grammatical usage passes into another are clearly traced, the frontier between grammar and exegesis marked with unusual sense and discrimination. In a word, this is the most living grammar of the New Testament we have.”—Expositor.

“Marked throughout by the most careful and critical knowledge of Scripture, more particularly of the New Testament, and the most patient weighing and comparison of parallel texts.... It forms an admirable introduction to the subject, and seems in intellectual power to even surpass any other of Mr. Moule’s published writings.”—Record.

“The authenticity, authorship, history, object, and general character of each book are discussed with admirable condensation and lucidity, and with ample critical knowledge.”—Scotsman.

“A veritable multum in parvo, clear, cogent, and concise, without being sketchy or superficial.”—Saturday Review.

“A very complete guide to the sermon literature of the present day.”—Scotsman.

“We do not hesitate to pronounce this the most practically useful work of its kind at present extant. It is not a commentary, but a Thesaurus of sermons on texts arranged consecutively, chapter after chapter and book after book.... We are bound to say that the object announced by the compilers is on the way to be realised, and here will be given the essence of the best homiletic literature of this generation.”—Literary Churchman.

“Preachers anxious to discover the best books out of which they may discover golden thoughts on any particular text, for use in their sermons, will doubtless be glad of the volume before us, which aims at being a guide-book, pointing out where sermons and articles on those texts may be found. In addition to this, extracts from sermons are given in the book itself.”—English Churchman.

“A hearty word of commendation can be said of the selected and condensed outlines of sermons in this volume, most of which are by well-known preachers. They will be of considerable service.”—Nonconformist.

“Like its two predecessors, the third volume is distinguished by the perfect catholicity of the selections, the admirable condensation of the sermons and expositions that are quoted, and the fulness of the references to the best sermon literature on each of the texts. It is beyond question the richest treasury of modern homiletics which has ever issued from the press.”—Christian Leader.

“A marvellous amount of information is here presented in compact and readable form at a very moderate price.”—Methodist Recorder.

“A great number of the best contemporary sermons are here rendered generally available in a very convenient form, and at a very low price indeed.”—Literary Churchman.