Haggai
The King James text of Haggai verse by verse, with short excerpts from four English commentators and the editor’s passage summaries, notes, and introductions.
- EAEnglish Annotations
- PPoole
- HHenry
- GGill
Baptist Seminarian
Read the Old GuysThe old writers, in their own words
A catena is a chain: the King James text of one book, verse by verse, with short links cut from the old commentators and set beside it, each in his own words and under his own name. The form is fifteen hundred years old. This series puts it to work on the English commentators of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, long out of print and hard going in their original pages.
The old writers are four who wrote on every verse: the English Annotations of 1645, Poole, Henry and Gill. They span a century and are not a party: Puritans of the Church of England, Presbyterians put out of it in 1662, and a Baptist. They often agree. Where they don’t, each side speaks for itself.
Read the verse, then the margin, oldest writer first, each under a red siglum. The editor chooses and cuts but never adds: the editor’s own words are the summaries, the footnotes and the notes marked ☞.
EA English AnnotationsP PooleH HenryG Gilllemma ] the words commented on☞ the editor’s note
The Books
2 books, in canonical orderPhilippians
The King James text of Philippians verse by verse, with short excerpts from four English commentators and the editor’s passage summaries, notes, and introductions.
- EAEnglish Annotations
- PPoole
- HHenry (W. Harris)
- GGill
The Commentators
oldest firstPooleMatthew Poole, 1624–1679
Presbyterian, ejected 1662. Left unfinished at his death and completed by his friends, each taking certain books.
On Haggai, Poole’s continuators; on Philippians, Richard Adams.
Annotations upon the Holy Bible, vol. II (London, 1685), from EEBO-TCP
HenryMatthew Henry, 1662–1714
Presbyterian, Chester and Hackney. He wrote through Acts; the epistles are by other ministers from his notes and in his manner.
On Philippians, William Harris.
Exposition of the Old and New Testament, lyteword edition
GillJohn Gill, 1697–1771
Baptist, pastor in Southwark for over fifty years. The first Baptist to write a verse-by-verse commentary on the whole Bible.
An Exposition of the New Testament (1746–48), Good Books Free edition
The English Annotations1645
Puritans of the Church of England. A group of London divines working at the request of Parliament, several of them members of the Westminster Assembly.
Annotations upon all the Books of the Old and New Testament (London, 1645), from EEBO-TCP