ACCS

The Ancient Christian Commentary on Scripture is on sale until Friday. Is it worth getting this if you already have the Early Church Fathers Protestant edition? After all, you could easily set up the ECFP as a collection and search it in My Passage Guide.

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Ken McGuire

Yes you can easily set up a search to do see whenever a passage is mentioned in the ECF set. But the ECF set is a collection of writings from the early church and is hardly complete. The ACCS set, besides being in a more convenient format of a commentary AND a more modern translation, also includes extracts from many works that had never been translated into English. And so it does offer additional material.

Of course, you have to decide if it is worth it to you. How interested are you in what the Fathers said about these texts? How much do you trust those who picked the selections to include?

SDG

Ken McGuire

Deacon Steve

It appears to me that it is selling at the regular price.

Abel C. Pol

They sent out a promo code for 15% off.

Dan Francis

Ancient Christian Commentary on Scripture Complete Set Updated Edition (ACCS) (29 vols.)

is not exhaustive but it is very handy and gives a good value in my mind. I own the ECF (Catholic edition) and find ACCS very useful...

-Dan

Deacon Steve

Thanks for the explanation, but you should edit your post and remove the code. Forum guidelines I believe. My fault - I should have just asked if it was a special offer.

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Deacon Steve

I own the ECF (Catholic edition) and find ACCS very useful...

Hi Dan,

If you could summarize what you find useful it would be a big help. I too struggle with the making a value decision on a number of church father resources that Logos has. I currently have a bid in for the larger 127 volume set from CUA and am trying to place these other, various offerings in context with ECF and many others ... Catena Aurea, Apostolic Fathers, Greek Fathers, translations of individual Fathers (Chrysostom et. al.), etc.