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.
Thanks for the promotion. I'm in.
Thanks for pointing this resource out, Liam. I was already in, and now I'll stay in.
Doddridge's works are still really low in bids (the 3rd lowest on the CP page). If anyone else is interested in his work you can reply to this thread to keep it in the top of the forum conversations, and we can get the ball rolling on it (I'm hoping it doesn't take years to get the bidding high enough).
Thanks all!
Doddridge's works are still really low in bids (the 3rd lowest on the CP page). If anyone else is interested in his work you can reply to this thread to keep it in the top of the forum conversations, and we can get the ball rolling on it (I'm hoping it doesn't take years to get the bidding high enough). Thanks all!
IMHO this is the cream of the crop among the current CP offerings. And it is dead last in "Gathering Interest". is that because there are scant bids, or is it because the bids are too low in terms of $$? I'd willingly cough up $50-75 for it without hesitation.
Liam, great sales pitch - great example of how to promote a resource that others might have missed. I wasn't in but am now.
Does anyone know if there is a way to suggest to Logos to put up some quotes by Spurgeon and Edwards on this commentary? Actually I don't know if Edwards speaks about the commentary, he just quotes from it a ton. Spurgeon on the other hand says this: "I know no expositor who unites so many advantages as Doddridge; whether you regard the fidelity of his version, the fullness and perspicuity of his composition, the utility of his general and historical information, the impartiality of his doctrinal comments, or, lastly, the piety and pastoral earnestness of his moral and religious applications."
It seems that if Logos posted some of this info on the item's info page, a lot more people would be interested. I know they do this with many other author's works, including the poor mans commentary that went to production so quick.
I agree that interest in this fabulous set lags, and it is likely due to unfamiliarity.
Out of 97 current Community Pricing listings, this item ranks 73rd in terms of number of bidders.
But $30 is also likely far too low a price to get it into production, even if it had as many bids as the current top best-seller.
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!!!
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.
