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Thanks Dan.

A New Commentary on Holy Scripture Including the Apocrypha.

From the forward: This Commentary is written by Anglican scholars who, while holding their faith, are determined in approaching the books to give their critical faculty, instructed by all the means within their power, its full and rightful freedom. It is hardly necessary to say that they have not found the results of legitimate criticism to conflict with the Catholic faith, though, believing, as they do, that criticism is a progressive science, and in the main a new science, their conclusions do very often differ widely from those which have been traditional. It will perhaps hardly be doubted that a Commentary on the whole Bible, written from this particular point of view, has been for many years both wanted and lacking; so that we need not apologize for endeavouring to supply the need. But it should be added that on no portion of the books was a new Commentary more obviously required than on the Apocrypha. It is not easy to exaggerate the importance of the books comprised under this ambigous title in supplying the mental background necessary for understanding the New Testament.

Praised by C. S. Lewis as “Probably the best single book of modern comment on the Bible,” A New Commentary on Holy Scripture Including the Apocrypha focuses on the spiritual understanding and application of the Scriptures. This much cherished Bible commentary was done by  Charles Gore's who was a great English scholar, writer, and bishop (in the Church of England), who attempted to reconcile "Anglo-Catholicism" with the Neo-Orthodoxy that was coalescing on the European continent in Reformed circles (and, to an extent, within Lutheranism). Most notably of Gore's younger contemporaries are Karl Barth and Emil Brunner. This work has served the church for many generations. With reprinting’s done in 1936, 1943, 1951, 1958, 1962, and 1980 (I would guess I may have well missed some too). A volume that was in print for over 50 years deserves to be in Logos. It may not be the most indepth commentary written but it’s value has been shown by the many thousands who have used it over the years. I have decided it is so valuable to as have ordered a copy to have in my physical library. One day soon I hope to have a electronic copy in my Faithlife Library.

 -Dan 

https://www.logos.com/product/16808/english-bible-collection

Primarily because of my heavily interested in the many translations and comparing one to another and each to the OL text.

I have a bid of $30 on this since 2013, and it is just crawling along. A couple of the translations included in this collection are already released in the standard base package.

MJ explains it best. [:)]

I have been hoping for some while that the Classic Studies on Baptism (42 volumes, $80) will reach the finish line while I'm still young enough to study them!

https://www.logos.com/product/33657/classic-studies-on-baptism

I believe we all ought to be vitally interested in the subject of baptism. I encountered the subject when I became a Christian as a teenager. On Sundays I attended Highland Park Baptist Church, where I was a new and newly-trained Sunday school teacher of a class of fourth grade boys. Sunday evening and midweek I attended Thoburn Methodist Church in Detroit, just two blocks away, as a result of responding to the invitation to attend the youth group by a close neighbor, who sponsored the MYF group. The Methodist Church pastor permitted me to choose whatever mode of baptism I preferred, or believed in. I decided to be sprinkled. Then the church leadership at Highland Park Baptist discovered that here I was teaching Sunday school, but my name was not on the church membership rolls. I asked what I needed to do. They said I must be immersed to join the church, so I agreed to that. My parents did not agree to that. So one of the elders or deacons from the church came to get me and bring me back home.

The subject has been a growing interest for me ever since. I have many of the volumes in the Classic Studies on Baptism collection, but there are several very important titles I do not have which I would like to read for myself, since they are referred to in volumes I do have.

Unfortunately, I am a neophyte when it comes to computer stuff and writing posts on forums. If I knew how, without losing my  place here writing this comment, I'd go over the titles that are of special interest and tell you why you should find them helpful too. Since I cannot do that, let me mention just one of the titles I recall is on the list which I do have, which I have found very helpful.

The volume on baptism by Hibbard as I have it in print is two volumes bound as one. This title is most significant, because besides discussing the mode of baptism, Hibbard presents what I consider to be an unanswerable defense of the validity of the continued practice of baptism in our time. That may seem a strange thing to question for most of you who manage to read here, but there are interesting groups I've encountered either through their literature or in person who do not believe ritual water baptism is for this dispensation or age. Hibbard presents such a full, clear, Scriptural case to prove otherwise, that I believe his work is well worth careful study for that content alone.

Many of these works on baptism delve deeply into both Old and New Testament topics related to the subject of baptism. Reading them will give many linguistic, grammatical, and cultural insights into both the Old and New Testament that you likely would totally miss ever knowing about, and for that reason they are highly valuable to me.

My personal interest in this general subject was deepened when I realized that knowing each side of the question and beliefs about baptism would prepare me better to witness to my Jehovah Witness friends and visitors to my home. The thought here for me has been that when one is in such a group, one is in a very closed and authoritarian system of belief, belief directed by top-down authority, not belief founded in a careful personal study of Scripture itself. Because that is so, thorough knowledge of an alternative view on what would be for them an unstudied view would shed further light from the Bible itself never encountered before, yet solidly based upon Scripture. That could be one way the Holy Spirit could employ my witness, and yours, when appropriate, to break the bondage to a false system.

Much more could be said, and I have no idea whether I exceeded my allotted word-count, but I trust more of you will boost the number of bids for the set of Classic Studies in Baptism. As I looked today, it seems to be up to about 75% there.

Surely the price is right, for at $80 for 42 volumes, that is less than two dollars a volume.

But more than that, you will strengthen your own faith as well as be more aware of the basis for views other than your own if you take the time--as I have--to read the kinds of material and scholarship represented in this collection.

Here I am a retired English teacher, and I have a strong interest in this area. I hope many of you will develop an interest in this subject too.