Classic Bible Commentaries Link

This is a helpful site with 8 complete Bible commentaries from "history's most renowned commentary writers." The link is listed on the right side of the Fathers of Providence blog in the "Valuable Links" section.

Please see notes below for a brief description of the authors/commentaries.

John Calvin (10 July 1509 – 27 May 1564) was an influential French theologian and pastor during the Protestant Reformation. He was a principal figure in the development of the system of Christian theology later called Calvinism. (Wikipedia – “John Calvin”)

John Nelson Darby (18 November 1800 – 29 April 1882) was an Anglo-Irish evangelist, and an influential figure among the original Plymouth Brethren. He is considered to be the father of modern Dispensationalism. (Wikipedia – “John Darby”)

Geneva Study Bible – Perhaps the first edition of the Bible in English that qualified as a "study Bible" was the Geneva Bible; it contained extensive cross references, synopses and doctrinal points. The text of the Geneva Bible was usually not printed without the commentary. (Wikipedia – “Study Bible”)

The Geneva Bible is one of the most historically significant translations of the Bible into the English language, preceding the King James translation by 51 years. It was the primary Bible of the 16th century Protestant movement and was the Bible used by William Shakespeare, Oliver cromwell, John Milton, John Knox, John Donne, and John Bunyan, author of Pilgrim's Progress.It was one of the Bibles taken to America on the Mayflower.(Wikipedia – “Geneva Bible”)

John Gill (23 November 1697 – 14 October 1771) was an English Baptist pastor, biblical scholar, and theologian who held to a firm Calvinistic soteriology.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown – written approx. 150 years ago; Reformed Evangelical Theology (http://www.centuryone.com/3197-8.html)

Matthew Henry [Complete and Concise Commentaries] (18 October 1662 – 22 June 1714) was an English commentator on the Bible and Presbyterian minister. (Wikipedia – “Matthew Henry”)

John Wesley (28 June 1703 – 2 March 1791) was a Church of England cleric and Christian theologian. Wesley is largely credited, along with his brother Charles Wesley, as founding the Methodist movement which began when he took to open-air preaching in a similar manner to George Whitefield. In contrast to George Whitefield's Calvinism, Wesley embraced the Arminian doctrines that were dominant in the 18th-century Church of England. (Wikipedia – “John Wesley”)