Complete College Press Commentary ROMANS (the Old Green book)

Here is the College Press Commentary on the Book of Romans:
ROMANS_College Press Commentary_5-6-2024.docx

This College Press Personal Book contains approximately 368 pages

The College Press Book on Romans is also available in the following
Book (1,100 pages on Romans).... Romans - RL Whiteside - (c)1945_5-06-2024.docx

Note: There are 59 Volumes in the Out of Print Series of the Old Green Textbook Commentaries,
Here is a picture of the set below, which will give you an idea of how large the set is: This set is
available online on a multitude of websites,and can be downloaded in PDF from restorationlibrary.org.
The above commentary on Romans is based on the College Press module from the e-Sword biblesupport.com
website. This was a very easy one to convert. Thinking about doing all of Paul's Letters and Episltes,
maybe the entire New Testament.

Mark
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Mark Johns

College Press Commentary on First Corinthians complete thru Chapter 15. Will post it later today(5-08-2024). The .docx file will be about 800 pages in Word.

Mark

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Lew Worthington

I appreciate your efforts. I'm not familiar with this series. Can you educate me, please? 🙂

Mark Johns

It is a 59-Volume Commentary Series by College Press, as authored by Christian church and Church of Christ Scholars. Some books are thoroughly covered by more than one volume. The .PDF version is available from restoration.org and several other websites. It is a very conservative series. It is no longer in Print. College Press replaced it with their newer NIV Commentary several yrs ago. The old Green Books, know as the old College Press Commentaries(59 vols) is available online on several sites and in several software platforms. IN MY OPINION IT IS BETTER THAN THE NIV COMMENTARY BY COLLEGE PRESS. I own their NIV for the New Testament, but would rather have their Old Green Books for Logos, so decided to create my own. Just the two volumes on Romans and First Corinthians are about 1,200 pages.

The set you are asking about is not a Calvinistic influenced set. It has ties with the American Restoration movement and does not advocate a "Faith only" salvation. Neither does it advocate a "Works Only" salvation. Rather, it supports a "Faith thru Spiritual Obedience" to God's Word. This is expressed in a life of righteousness, or obedience to God's revealed will. This in a sense is the belief system behind these Commentaries you are asking about. I find them to be more in line with the Gospel Advicate NT and/or Burton Coffman Commentaries which are available in the Logos format. These last two commenatries, along with the College Press Commentaries are works from authors from the American Restoration Movement. Most are by members of the churches of Christ(Acapella) and conservative Christian churches. The strength of the old College Press books I would classify alongside the strengths of the Pulpit Commentary and perhaps the works of Adam Clarke, etc...

Mark

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Lew Worthington

Thank you Mark. That is a very full and helpful description, exactly what I needed.

Lew

NB.Mick

Here is the College Press Commentary on the Book of Romans:

Hi Mark,

this reminded me of the early pages of the E.M. Zerr-Thread back in 2020.

I just took some few minutes to put in milestones into the Romans Commentary. This will put a bible index into the commentary (just as the Logos-produced bibles and commentaries have) and thus will allow positioning on the treatment of a verse or section and automatic scrolling to the same location of linked resources. I'm still not a master of regular expressions, so it just was copy, paste and typing - and one heading level correction - not really hard work, but I believe this really is needed to make a commentary useful in Logos.

Thanks again for sharing this file!

Here's the updated version, for those who like to use that: 6320.ROMANS_College Press Commentary_5-6-2024.upd.milestones.docx

(I also think that having several books side by side (in a link set or a multiview panel) scrolling automatically is more valuable than putting together one large sequential book containing a number of other books. At least that's how I roll. But everybody shares the PBs they like to make, so please don't see this as criticism)

Mark Johns

Thanks for doing that!

I am pretty ignorant when it comes to inserting milestones

Tried in once and was taking so long I didn't have the patience

You'll like it when I post the College Press City for First Corinthians

It is about 800 pages in the .docx file.

Just wondering how long it would take on

A file that large. Will try to post it later tonite,

then will start on Second Corinthians

Mark

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Mark Johns

Well Sir,

Here is the Completed College Press Commentary (old Green books) for
the Book of First Corinthians.

FIRST CORINTH_College Press Commentary_5-08-2024.docx

This version of First Corinthians has about 748 pages in my Microsoft Word.
If you want to add Milestones to this and don't mind, go right ahead. Maybe
together we can get a good thing going for Logos here. I am starting on Second
Corinthians tonite after I get back home from church. Will try to post Second
Corinthians either Thursday nite (5/09/24) or sometime Friday.

Mark
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NB.Mick

This version of First Corinthians has about 748 pages in my Microsoft Word.
If you want to add Milestones to this and don't mind, go right ahead.

I think I will - actually started - for those dropping by, two bits of information that might become relevant:

What Mark shared above is actually two books merged together into one:
- T.R. Applebury's Studies in First Corinthians from 1963, available e.g. at
https://archive.org/details/BibleStudyTextbookSeries1And2Corinthians and
- Paul T. Butler's Studies in First Corinthians from 1985, available e.g. at
https://archive.org/details/FirstCorinthians/page/n1/mode/2up
Both would normally be under copyright (thus not shareable in the forums), but it seems the publisher generously made them available for personal use. Archive.org has the copyright remark:
STUDIES IN FIRST CORINTHIANS COPYRIGHT 1963/1985 College Press: the Bible Study Textbook Series (The Old Green Commentaries). These were very popular several years back and many of you have requested copies of these timeless treasures. Because reprint cost are so high we have chosen not to reprint but instead, we are offering them electronically for free. These commentaries are being made available for your personal use.
which is shorthanded there to CC-BY-NC 3.0

Mark Johns

Thanks NB.Mick!

Appreciate your comments about First Corinthians by Butler and Applebury.
Believe from what I can determine that the same is pretty much similar in the Second Corinthians commentary.

For those who might be interested in Comparing the College Press (Logos Versons) of the old Green Books
that I have posted thus far, consider the following PDF Versions. I haven't posted the LOGOS Version for
Second Corinthians yet. Church was yesterday, so didn't get to work on it, but will try to get it posted by
Friday (5/10/2024) if not before. These PDF Versions are from the restoationlibrary.org website. I am sharing these
links because they seem to be better than the ones available for download from the College Press website.

The Copyright for Romans is 1959 (I am assuming that is the original. Will probably re-edit the Logos version
to display this information for a more appropriate Title Page.
The Copyright for 1st and 2nd Corinthians is 1963/1985 and 1988 reespectively, although I am finding that in
the 2nd Corinthians commentary there are Comments by Applebury too. Just like in the 1st Corinthians commentary.
Doesn't really matter in the long run, since they are free to distribute. Just feel that the proper Copyright information
should still be provided. Haven't checked the Romans PDF file yet but will make the necessary changes, or better
yet, since you have already made the Milestone changes, you might want to do that on your end. Perhaps I can
try and post a small .docx file that contains the information for Romans, then you can insert it at the beginning of
your edited/Milestones version of Romans... the re-post it or re-edit your post, whichever is convenient.

Romans: BSTSRR_SIPDF.pdf (restorationlibrary.org)

First Corinthians: BSTSCB1_SIPDF.pdf (restorationlibrary.org)

Second Corinthians: BSTSCB2_SIPDF.pdf (restorationlibrary.org)

Mark
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Mark Johns

To: NB.Mick....

Here is the updated ROMANS by Don DeWelt (College Press Old Green Book)

This is the version that you just inserted the Milestones for. It doesn't have the Milestones,
but what I did was change the Front Page/Title page at the beginning with a graphic and
proper Copyright information. Nothing else was changed, so you might want to copy and
paste into your Milestones version of Romans. You don't have to I suppose. Just wanted
to make the beginning of Romans look more like First and Second Corinthians.

ROMANS_College Press Commentary_5-6-2024.docx

Just beginning to work on the 3rd and 4th chapters of Second Corinthians now.
2nd Corinthians has 162 pages thru Chapter Three. Approx. 240 pages thru Chapter Four.
Looks like about 330-335 pages for Chapter Five and Well over 400 pages thru Chapter Six.
It is now lunchtime here, so will finish chapter 6-8 after lunch.

I have noticed on the restorationlibrary.org website that there are Two(2) College Press
Commentaries for Second Corinthians. One is by Paul T. Butler and the other by Applebury.
The copy I am working with is for the e-Sword version, so I think that whoever created it simply
combined the two in one. Have noticed some questions missing from Chapter Five. Gonna
have to look at the two different PDF's that I already have and see where they are. This might
slow me up a bit.

Mark

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Mark Johns

Needs some help with this.

The Second Corinthians PBB Book (College Press)
I have no problems building this book, but after finishing Chapter Five
I had "2 errors" and "1085 Warnings" -- OUCH!!

I am attaching the log file where there are a straight 1,000 lines of
the same error message. Tried to find the solution on the forum and all
I could find is the suggestion of click on the 'Review Tab' in word and making
sure that the language 'X' is "English" Well, it is. Now, I have the Filenames
for Romans, 1st Corinthians, and 2nd Corinthians listed in the Personal Book
Utility. These errors didn't pop up until I completed Chapter Five of 2nd Corinthians.
So, I am also sending what I have done for 2nd Corinthians in case someone can
explain, Correct this mess. The book works just fine in Logos. It just bugs me to
have 1,085 errors. SO HERE ARE THE FILES BELOW WITH THE LOG FILE FIRST:

PBB_Errors for 2nd Corinthians_CollegePress_2024-05-09T20_32_13Z.txt

SECOND CORINTH_College Press Commentary_5-09-2024.docx

The error in question is the one as follows: "[Warning] Unknown Language: 'x' "
This appears about 1,000 times. Am afraid if I ignore this issue that the Book might
cease to work in Logos. "WHAT THINK YE???"

Mark
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