John Gills commentaries would be a great add-on purchase for Logos. Gill's commentary is very exhaustive!
I'm willing to pay for all of these books for the added functionality and because, IMHO, Logos has very little that compares with them so far.
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I have the free version of Gill's commentaries in another Bible software program, but I'm looking forward to having them available in Logos. One of the things I like about his commentaries (apart from the fact that Gill is a Calvinist) is that he also uses rabbinic sources. I hope that Logos will link his commentaries to the Talmud (on prepub here: http://www.logos.com/products/prepub/details/6667).
Something I didn't know is that Gill was influenced by Witsius: "During his lifetime, Witsius was a major influence on his contemporaries, such as John Gill and John Owen," (http://www.logos.com/products/prepub/details/6750).
I just ran the PBB updater again by stilltruth and it downloaded Gill's Commentaries. They are named eeb. (Exposition of the Entire Bible)
I'll try it tonight. Thanks!
I guess I figured it out. You just don't know when it's downloaded until you look for it in Libronix.
True, I should have told you.
Thomas, If you use the updater the commentaries will download as Shawn said. Thanks again Shawn!
Your welcome. These are part of the reason I brought up the topic several weeks ago titled "PBB rest in peace" If you would like to read this thread you can do a search.
Actuall the thread is titled "Pbb's R.I.P.
I chose this thread to re-encourage everyone here to bid on Gill now that it is in Community Pricing. If you have bid low, bid as high as you can, I would bid the full price or more if I could. As I and others have said before there is no commentary like Gill's and there probably never will be. Many of His contemporaries like George Whitefield, who he supported, have made it to production, he was Spurgeon's predecessor, Toplady's best friend, he published Tobias Crisp, he had one of the largest congregations of his time, many of the people were simple folk and his commentaries have stood the test of time. Is he controversial? Yes, but so were Jesus, Paul and the other apostles and prophets. His other writings are rich as well. He is available in QuickVerse and Adobe and of course free on the internet: http://www.freegrace.net/gill/ . I want to encourage users that are not familiar with him to check him, you should not be disappointed.
I wanted to give people a chance to look at Gill's commentaries again. I'm really surprised his commentaries haven't received a much higher response. I have his works in another format and value his input.
What is the latest news on this? Any ideas when it will go to production and be released?
http://www.logos.com/product/8514/the-works-of-john-gill
Will give you some idea on progress. Not even having 50% of needed bids it could be a long time before it goes into preproduction. When it has enough I would assume a text as massive as this needing extensive tagging will take several months to complete. It is my favourite commentary from the period and a valuable work to own, but I seem to be in the minority believing this.
-Dan
What is the latest news on this? Any ideas when it will go to production and be released? http://www.logos.com/product/8514/the-works-of-john-gill Will give you some idea on progress. Not even having 50% of needed bids it could be a long time before it goes into preproduction. When it has enough I would assume a text as massive as this needing extensive tagging will take several months to complete. It is my favourite commentary from the period and a valuable work to own, but I seem to be in the minority believing this. -Dan
Right now the Classic Commentary sets are getting the most attention in Community Priing. I think many are overwhelmed at the volume, even with tremendous value.
Like you I've been Very disappointed at the lack of interest in one-author collections on CP, like Manton, Clarke, Gill, and several others.
IMO, Logos should just bite the bullet and do Gill. There is no one like him and no work like his is being done today. There is no one with the understanding of Hebrew, Jewish commentators and the history of the text like him. Of course, he is not perfect, but he didn't write to make a dollar, he wrote because he stood for God and ALL of His truth. I'm sick and tired of all the Logos ads for books that are being written today with no regard for biblical accuracy. Having Gill's works and the ease of copying and pasting scripture from the taskbar are the only reasons I still use Logos 3.
I've offered to help finance his writings so they are included FREE with all Logos products, but no response from Logos.
Feel free to contact me to discuss how we can move Gill into production sooner: pgons@logos.com or 360-685-2314.
Must have! I would buy it! [Y]
Phil, I sent you an email a while back and haven't heard back yet. Thanks!!!
Since this is included with some base packages, I think it should ship soon, and sort of skip the regular CP process.
Baptist Platinum, I think. If you go to the Prepub page, it lists them on the right.
Thanks!!! You are correct I just bought "The Cause of God and Truth" and "A Complete Body of Doctrinal and Practical Divinity" Don't know why this hasn't been advertised?
https://www.logos.com/product/45644/a-complete-body-of-doctrinal-and-practical-divinity
https://www.logos.com/product/45647/the-cause-of-god-and-truth
