The commentary JE used most was Philip Doddridge's "The Family Expositor". Edwards' Blank Bible is littered with all kinds of quotes from Doddridge's Family Expositor. The Expositor is an amazing work. It is a paraphrase of the NT with study notes. Essentually it's the puritan version of a study Bible. It was released yesterday for community pricing. It doesn't seem to be getting much traction on community pricing yet. Check it out here: http://www.logos.com/product/20427/the-works-of-rev-philip-doddridge. If you want to check out the document you can find it on Googlebooks or Achive.
Thanks everyone!
Liam, you've done a good job of selling this resource to me. I'm in!
Also, a massive thank you.
I glanced over the description without realizing there was a commentary or notes on the NT featured in the seventeen volumes. Thanks for pointing this out.
I've been working on a docx of Doddridge for a while, but it's been going extremely slow. I only have Romans 1-7 done. If anyone wants to get a taste for Doddridge, I posted what I have in the files section of the forums. If you you do download it, look at the footnotes carefully, all of Doddridge's Bible notes in the docx are in the form of footnotes so they're easy to miss if you're not looking for them.
Just bid...thanks for bringing this to our attention
thanks for bringing this to our attention
I'm glad there are so many people interested in this set! Thanks for posting about bidding everyone! The more people that post on this forum the more people will know about this commentary, and the faster we'll get it into production! So if you're glad Logos is offerring to put this set into production and excited to get it, please post to this forum to get more people to bid on it! That way we'll get it faster and more people will get a great deal on it!!!
Thanks all!
I sometimes wonder if it doesn't hurt collections like these to include a lot of volumes of stuff that may seem extraneous to some folks. When these "complete" collections have a bunch of volumes with stuff like the author's store receipts, oil change records, tax returns, daily calorie counter checklists, love letters, medical records, and whatnot...I think some people just say "why purchase more 'stuff' just to turn around and hide it?"
Not sure that's what's keeping this one from gaining traction, but I can say I'm not keen on adding anything to my bloated library that doesn't add value...even if I can get it for a "great price!"
That said, I did just bid...I'm sorta curious what Edwards thought was worth quoting.
Yeah it would be nice if they offerred just the Expositor instead of only the complete works (it would probably move faster), maybe they'll separate it out as it's own resource after this one gets through CP.
David I think you'll really enjoy it! Even if you're not in the reformed camp, this resource is great in it's devotional spirit, and has reflections for each section of scripture!
It's really great at engaging both the mind and the heart, which I think is the reason I like Edwards so much as well!
