What a great, unexpected surprise (ends May 15).
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Purchase here - https://www.logos.com/product/43168/commentary-on-the-new-testament-verse-by-verse-explanations-with-a-literal-translation?&utm_source=blog.logos.com&utm_medium=blog&utm_content=Get80%off%20respected&utm_campaign=%20promo-gundrycommentary2015
Thank you Faithlife
Thanks!!!
After you get it, don't forget to prioritize the resource. That'll insure it shows up regularly in your searches.
Thank you very much another excellent one volume commentary to add to my one volume commentary collection for devotional purposes!
thank you Faithlife and Baker!
DAL
I had sort of decided to let this one pass, but after reading more about it I decided to go for it. Has anyone here had personal experience with it?
Thanks for the heads up Stephen - a great deal [Y]. And thank you Faithlife.
I have this already (from a Baker collection) but haven't yet used it. Gundry should be read with care (you'd surely do this anyway, but some need this more).
Thank you very much another excellent one volume commentary to add to my one volume commentary collection for devotional purposes! thank you Faithlife and Baker! DAL
ditto[Y] Somebody is working hard to give us specials recently. That's encouraging!
This was a welcomed surprise! Thanks to all involved!
I've had this as a part of the Baker Academic Commentary Collection and find it to be a nice compliment to Gundry's excellent Survey of the New Testament. The commentary does not deal with background information like author, date, provenance, sources, historicity, etc., so having Gundry's survey in addition to the commentary is very helpful.
I just wish some of these deals weren't on resources I already own! [:)]
Thanks Stephen,
This really looks a great bargain and I have just bought it. It pays to keep your eyes peeled!
Thank you Stephen! I had it per e-mail,but now I am encouraged to take a step to purchase it. This is really like a present.Thank you Logos as well.
Wow what a great deal! Thanks for the heads up.
In one place we are told it is published by Hendrickson in another by Baker. I believe Baker is correct.
The title page definitely says Hendrickson, but I believe it is somehow caught up in this deal between Baker and Hendrickson:
http://bbhchurchconnection.blogspot.com/2010/08/baker-publishing-group-acquires.html
[:D]
Snapped up! Thanks.
Every blessing
Alan
Thank you!
Baker Academic Official Website has this on sale for $3.19
Logos $10 ?
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Sheesh Mike.
lol. hey just saying.[:P]
plus i bought it already at $10, so I'm less evil. [:$]
Baker Academic Official Website has this on sale for $3.19 Amazon has this for $1.99 Logos $10 ?
Amazon has this for $1.99
The total Amazon Kindle price is $39.58. The $1.99 is for one volume.
Careful on that Amazon link. Unless I'm missing something, the price for the entire hardcover commentary is $41.66 with Amazon Prime The $1.99 link gets you a 60 page commentary on 1 & 2 Thessalonians for Kindle.
oops, bad amz's link.
I had sort of decided to let this one pass, but after reading more about it I decided to go for it. Has anyone here had personal experience with it? I have this already (from a Baker collection) but haven't yet used it. Gundry should be read with care (you'd surely do this anyway, but some need this more).
Prior to reading this thread, I had never heard of Gundry, but mab's statement that "...Gundry should be read with care..." left me curious as to what was meant by that. So, I did quick look into Gundry and was mildly stunned by what I understand him to believe/teach about the apostle Peter--i.e. that he was an apostate. This concept was so far off the charts (i.e. my radar), that I'm wondering if I've completely misunderstood him and would appreciate either correction or confirmation about it.
In brief, based on this presentation I understand him to be saying Matthew's gospel "clearly" shows Matthew to see and present Peter as an apostate--that we should be able to see this, but we have failed to do so for three main reasons.
Am I somehow completely misunderstanding Gundry?
PS: Afterthought: I don't mean to imply that this issue is what mab was referring to when suggesting we read Gundry with care. Only that this statement is what raised my curiosity about Gundry. It may well be mab has a high regard for Gundry and simply meant we could glean much from him if we didn't rush through his commentary. I think I'm having a "Peter" moment and should try to extract foot from mouth. [:S]
In brief, based on this presentation I understand him to be saying Matthew's gospel "clearly" shows Matthew to see and present Peter as an apostate--that we should be able to see this,
Gundry presents his views on St. Peter in Peter - False Disciple and Apostate: According to Saint Matthew. Judging by the title, you are not completely misunderstanding him.
(Advance Warning: Discussion of the merits and demerits of Gundry's controversial positition and exegesis belongs on ChristianDiscourse rather than here.)
Alrighty then, I've made it a suggestion for when it comes out. [:)]
In brief, based on this presentation I understand him to be saying Matthew's gospel "clearly" shows Matthew to see and present Peter as an apostate--that we should be able to see this, Am I somehow completely misunderstanding Gundry? Gundry presents his views on St. Peter in Peter - False Disciple and Apostate: According to Saint Matthew. Judging by the title, you are not completely misunderstanding him. (Advance Warning: Discussion of the merits and demerits of Gundry's controversial positition and exegesis belongs on ChristianDiscourse rather than here.)
SineNomine,
Thanks for the reply and the link. I missed the fact that Gundry actually had a book published by that title--I had only viewed the video presentation he gave per the link in my previous post. While the synopsis of his book does not address the three main reasons I understood him to give for why we fail to see Peter's apostate condition, it does seem to confirm Gundry views Peter as an apostate. I couldn't help but chuckle when I read the synopsis though, because in my original post I said I was "mildly stunned by what I understand him to believe/teach about the apostle Peter...", and the synopsis opens with the statement "A stunning, unprecedented perspective on the disciple Peter...." [:)]
Regarding any discussion of the merits/demerits of Gundry's stance, I agree that discussion does not belong on the Logos forums. But I do want to confirm I correctly understand what his position is, as it's one I had never heard before and I was completely blind-sided by it in the video presentation.
Can someone please post a sample of this commentary? I've tried on the Logos site and Amazon for a preview and haven't had any luck. Thanks.
Cheers, ChelseaFC
This is a link to the "see inside" of 1st Peter on Amazon
http://www.amazon.com/Commentary-First-Second-Peter-Testament-ebook/dp/B0060M8I3S/ref=pd_sim_351_15?ie=UTF8&refRID=1W3E6MJJP9977R5T622C#reader_B0060M8I3S
Am I somehow completely misunderstanding Gundry? PS: Afterthought: I don't mean to imply that this issue is what mab was referring to when suggesting we read Gundry with care. Only that this statement is what raised my curiosity about Gundry. It may well be mab has a high regard for Gundry and simply meant we could glean much from him if we didn't rush through his commentary. I think I'm having a "Peter" moment and should try to extract foot from mouth.
PS: Afterthought: I don't mean to imply that this issue is what mab was referring to when suggesting we read Gundry with care. Only that this statement is what raised my curiosity about Gundry. It may well be mab has a high regard for Gundry and simply meant we could glean much from him if we didn't rush through his commentary. I think I'm having a "Peter" moment and should try to extract foot from mouth.
I've tried to maintain my respect for scholars that are problematic in their ideas and/or methodology. A lot of what goes on in scholarly circles is nothing more than conjecture and it sometimes gets more so with time as seems to be with Gundry. If the Bereans were thoughtful enough to verify what Paul said, should we do anything less?
Because of your post, I bought this book. Thanks.
You will return it in 5,4,3... (read the rest of the thread).
My take on it is prove all things hold fast that which is good! I would like to see his book on Peter the apostate on Logos to have it as a reference and see where in the world he got that idea from. Other than that I am well aware that even scholars get it really wrong one too many times! The Berean attitude is the best one to have in this cases.
Can anybody that owns the commentary recommend it as a resource for a wider (eg. beyond Evangelical) audience?
I like his views and emphasis on looking at evidence, not traditions. However the commentary is chock full of unsupported statements. I bought it, read a while, deleted it. Then reloaded for your question. Saw the same problem, and deleted it again.
Thanks.
Examples? You need to be more specific!
-An excerpt from which you may pick examples:
THE ENCOURAGING WORD OF GOD AS TAUGHT BY THE GREATER MOSES TO HIS PERSECUTED DISCIPLES
Matthew 5:1–10
5:1–2
: And on seeing the crowds, he went up onto a mountain
[as Moses went up onto Mount Sinai to receive and then promulgate the Law]; and when he’d sat down [that is, taken the posture that rabbis took to teach the Mosaic law], his disciples approached him. 2 And opening his mouth he started teaching them, saying.… Since Jesus speaks to his disciples (by definition "learners"), we should take the Sermon on the Mount as instruction for discipleship, not as the good news of salvation or as a program for the social betterment of the world at large (though the world at large might well adopt such a program). And since at the conclusion of the Sermon on the Mount it’ll be said that "the crowds were awestruck at his teaching" (7:28), the disciples who approach him and whom he starts teaching here in 5:1 are the same crowds that were portrayed in 4:25 as disciples (a mixture again of the true and the false), not a smaller group that separated themselves from the crowds by following Jesus up the mountain. This portrayal exhibits Matthew’s desire to make Jesus’ teaching the Law to the crowds anticipate and symbolize the mission described in 28:19–20, where Jesus will order his original disciples to teach newly made disciples from all nations to obey "all things" that he has commanded them. And since he’s "God with us" (1:23) and human beings are to live "on the basis of every word proceeding out through God’s mouth" (4:4), what now proceeds out through Jesus’ mouth when he opens it are the very words of God, like the law of God promulgated through Moses on Mount Sinai. Thus Jesus as God incarnate and Jesus as the new and greater Moses merge.
5:3
: "Fortunate
[are] the poor in spirit, because theirs is the reign of heaven." (Here and following, italics indicate points of emphasis and implication: "theirs rather than others,’ " "they rather than others," and so on.) The traditional translation, "Blessed," is sometimes updated to "Happy." But "Happy" wouldn’t fit those who in 5:4 "mourn"; and Jesus is stating a matter of fact, not a matter of what should be, as though the poor in spirit should be happy whether or not they are. So "Fortunate" is a better update to "Blessed." "Poor in spirit" echoes the word of the Lord in Isaiah 66:2 and thus furthers the identification of Jesus’ words with the words of God, as in 5:2 with 4:4. Poverty in spirit means inward dependence on God by disciples who because of persecution have no outward means of support. The use of the third person (not "you" and "yours" but "they" and "theirs") both here and in the following verses makes these beatitudes (as they are traditionally called) into statements that teach the characteristics and effects of true discipleship. "The reign of heaven" belongs to "the poor in spirit" in that though they’re persecuted now, someday they’ll share in reigning over the regenerated earth (compare 19:28; 25:21, 23, 28).
5:4
[are] those who are mourning [that is, grieving over their persecutions], because they will be comforted [when Jesus comes back and the reign of heaven fully takes over]." This beatitude echoes Isaiah 61:1–2.
5:5
[are] the meek, because they will inherit the earth [again, when Jesus comes back and the reign of heaven fully takes over]." "The meek" are those who suffer persecution without retaliating. This beatitude echoes Psalm 37:11.
5:6
[are] those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, because they will be sated." But since they’re being persecuted "on account of righteousness [their own, that is (5:10)]," they’re already righteous; and Jesus will soon speak of "your righteousness" in addressing his disciples (5:20 [compare 1:19; 5:45; 10:41 and so on]). So the righteousness they hunger and thirst for is the righteousness of God in the sense of his vindication of them. They want him to do the right thing by way of rewarding them and punishing their persecutors. "They will be sated" alludes to being filled to satisfaction with divine vindication at the messianic banquet, which will take place when the reign of heaven fully takes over (compare 8:11–12; 22:1–10; 26:29). This beatitude echoes Isaiah 49:10; 61:1.
5:7
[are] the merciful, because they will be treated mercifully." Now their persecutors treat them mercilessly, and in return they show only mercy toward their persecutors. So when the reign of heaven fully takes over, God will treat the merciful with mercy (and their persecutors without mercy, we might add from passages such as 23:29–36). This beatitude echoes Psalm 18:25.
5:8
[are] the pure in heart, because they will see God." Great stress falls in Matthew’s Gospel on inward purity as opposed to a merely outward show of purity, piety, and the like (see, for example, 6:1–6, 16–18). For it’s only inward purity that can fortify a professing Christian against temptations to recant in times of persecution. "They will see God" when the reign of heaven fully takes over. To see him is to be brought into his glorious presence, as opposed to being thrown into outer darkness (for which see the comments on 4:16). This beatitude echoes Psalm 24:3–6.
5:9
[are] the peacemakers, because they will be called sons of God." "The peacemakers" have their counterparts in those who persecute them ("people" who "hate you," as Luke 6:22 puts it). They make peace with their persecutors. "They will be called sons of God" means that when the reign of heaven fully takes over, God will acknowledge them as his sons. ("Sons" functions generically here and thus includes females as well as males.) This beatitude echoes Psalm 34:14; Hosea 1:10.
5:10
[are] those who’ve been persecuted on account of righteousness, because theirs is the reign of heaven." As noted in connection with 5:6, here it’s not God’s righteousness but the disciples’ righteousness for which they’ve been persecuted. Literally, to be persecuted means to be pursued, to be hounded—hence the withdrawals that we’ve noted in earlier chapters and the later command to flee (10:23). This beatitude echoes Psalm 15:1–2; Isaiah 51:7. So every one of these beatitudes displays unity between the teaching of Jesus, who is "God with us" (1:23), and the words of God in the Old Testament. Repetition from the first beatitude of the promise, "theirs is the reign of heaven," brings the series to a close (see further the comments on 5:3). The first four beatitudes emphasized the persecuted condition of Jesus’ disciples. The last four have emphasized the ethical qualities that characterize the persecuted. Accordingly, the first four end on the note of righteousness as divine justice, the last four on the note of righteousness as the disciples’ good conduct. So in these beatitudes we don’t have a gospel for the unevangelized, but words of encouragement for a suffering church.
THE DISCIPLES’ PERSECUTION AND MISSION IN THE WORLD
Matthew 5:11–16
Though this passage begins with "Fortunate," it doesn’t belong with the preceding series of beatitudes which begin the same way. For no longer do we read a "because"-clause right after the "Fortunate"-clause, and the person changes from third ("they," "theirs," and "those") to second ("you" and "yours" in the plural). At this point, therefore, the term "Fortunate" simply forms a link between the beatitudes proper (5:3–10) and the following description of the persecutions to be endured by Jesus’ disciples because of their mission in the world (5:11–12). There follow two descriptions of that mission, the first under the figure of salt (5:13), the second under the related figures of a light, a city, and a lamp (5:15–16). These three subdivisions of the passage close, respectively, with an encouragement to rejoice, a warning, and an exhortation.
5:11–12
: "Fortunate are you whenever people vilify you and persecute
[you] and on account of me say every kind of evil thing against you, lying [when they do]. 12 Rejoice and be glad, because your reward in heaven [is] much. For in this way they persecuted the prophets before you." Here persecution takes the form of verbal abuse in addition to physical pursuit. The redundancy of "vilify" and "say every kind of evil thing against you" magnifies the verbal abuse. So too does "every kind of." "Lying" qualifies the verbal abuse to ensure that it’s undeserved. "On account of me" has the same purpose but qualifies physical pursuit as well as verbal abuse, corresponds to "on account of [disciples’] righteousness" in 5:10, and thus points to Jesus as the one whose teaching produces righteousness in those who obey it. The redundancy of "Rejoice and be glad" underlines the coming good fortune of those who suffer such abuses undeservedly. "Your reward" defines the good fortune as deserved, in contrast with the abuses. Since the meek "will inherit the earth" (5:5), "in heaven" doesn’t mean you’ll get your reward when you go to heaven. It means, rather, that your reward is already packaged in heaven, so to speak, and only awaits delivery when the reign of heaven fully takes hold on earth. "Much" describes the reward as quite sufficient to compensate even for the saying of "every kind of evil thing against you." The similarity between the way people persecuted the Old Testament prophets and the way Jesus’ disciples are persecuted supplies the reason "your reward in heaven [is] much." You’re being persecuted no less than and no differently from those ancient prophets, and you don’t doubt that their reward is much. In fact, some of you are prophets just as they were (10:41; 23:34). All in all, compare Genesis 15:1; Isaiah 51:7; 66:5.
5:13
: "You are the salt of the earth. But if the salt is made foolish
[in the sense of losing its saltiness], with what will it be made salty?" Implication: nothing can resalt the salt. "It’s no longer strong for anything [that is, capable of doing its job], except on being thrown out to be trampled by people." "Earth" means "soil" and stands for the world of human beings (compare 5:14, 16). Behind this figure lies the ancient agricultural practice of using a light sprinkling of salt as fertilizer. So disciples in the world are like fertilizer in the soil. They’re capable of producing "fruit in keeping with repentance" (3:8), that is, "righteousness" (5:10) consisting in "good deeds" that contribute to others’ conversion (5:16). But salt can lose its saltiness through adulteration or leaching. As in the foregoing translation, the verb for losing saltiness literally means "to be made foolish." Elsewhere in Matthew a foolish person is a falsely professing disciple (5:22 [with comments]; 7:26; 25:2–3, 8 [compare 23:17 for hypocrisy]). Here, then, for salt to be made foolish is for a disciple to be proved false in his profession. Persecution has a way of bringing out such falsity. "With what will it be made salty?" means that the falsity is irreversible. "It’s no longer strong for anything" means that because of its falsity the discipleship has lost its usefulness for converting others. "Except on being thrown out to be trampled by people" stands for being thrown out of the kingdom of heaven into eternal punishment (8:12; 22:13; 25:30, 46). (People threw refuse, like useless salt, into the street, where people walked.) So the last part of this verse warns against allowing persecution to cause apostasy from discipleship, for such apostasy puts one under an irrevocable sentence of judgment.
5:14–16
: "You are the light of the world."
In other words, you disciples are like the sun, which illuminates the whole world. "A city situated on a mountaintop can’t be hidden." For easier defense, many ancient cities were built on mountaintops or, by modern standards, hilltops. 15 "Neither do people light a lamp and place it under a basket [used for measuring and equivalent to almost ¼ bushel or eight quarts], but on a lampstand; and it gives lamplight to all those in the house. 16 In this way your light is to give lamplight in people’s presence, so that they may see your good deeds and glorify your Father in heaven." The light of the sun is visible to all throughout the world. A city situated on a mountaintop is visible to all in the vicinity. And the light of a lamp placed on a lampstand is visible to all in the house. Despite the threat and actuality of persecution, Jesus says, you must behave as a disciple out in the open, where your discipleship is visible. No hiding it to save your neck. Your discipleship consists in doing good deeds as defined by Jesus’ teachings. Given the emphasis on mercy and neighborly love in 9:13; 12:7; 19:19; 22:39 and elsewhere, "good deeds" means especially works of charity. So the doing of good deeds is to back up the proclaiming of good news. "And glorify your Father in heaven" requires that the motive for the doing of such deeds be not for your own glory (6:1–18; 23:5) but for the glory of God the heavenly Father, whose "sons" are "the peacemakers" (5:9). But how do nondisciples who see your good deeds glorify him? By becoming disciples themselves as a result of the good deeds that back up the proclamation of good news. There comes about, then, a chain reaction of disciples’ making disciples who make even further disciples, and so on. "Of the world," "on a mountaintop," "to all those in the house," and "in this way" point forward to Jesus’ telling the disciples to go disciple "all nations" (28:19).
This is the best summation of this section of Scripture that I've ever read. Not complete, being rather concise and brief, but surprisingly lacking in major faux pas, and likewise expressing a surprising amount of comprehension of usually overlooked truth. I'm still combing through the video about his Peter book, but his "crime" is much more that of not going far enough rather than going too far. But, like Denise says above, because of his attention to the bald facts of the text rather than traditional interpretations based on globalized assumptions (aka theological bias), he asserts some remarkable things here. I rarely offer praise to scholars, since they so rarely deserve it, but I am impressed with his doggedness and dedication to sola scriptura where most just mouth the words while trotting out the traditional doctrinal dreck.
Is the book about Peter written by this Author part of this resource or it is a separate book?
Tes, it is a separate book that is not yet published.
It is a separate book - not yet published. See the thread linked below.
https://community.logos.com/forums/t/104837.aspx
Thank you MJ.Smith und JAL. As we know the Author of the Bible is the Holy Spirit it is wiser to say I don't understand than to comment against the Bible and try to say what it does not say. God has raised many scholars throughout the time. It is completely false and un acceptable to claim a new revelation about the Bible what has never been seen up too now. I am just typing this with a grieved heart.
If prophecy didn't explicitly say otherwise, you might be onto something. Your grief needs a mirror.
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Hi David. For your information. I am a Pentecostal believer. I believe in Prophecy. I fear perhaps I may be misunderstood. My priority is not being a Pentecostal believer, but a brother or a sister in Christ. I have just mentioned it out of my sad heart when I see that what was said or written about the Disciple of Jesus Peter. Being a Pentecostal believer doesn't make me better than others. I even hate claiming denomination for the purpose of discrimination rather than a believer in Christ. I feel very comfortable with my brothers and sisters in the forums irrespective of our differences on some matters. Please It is not my intention to offend any body. I wanted to ignore what was said on the other thread, but I just happened to express what I have felt. This is not targeted to criticize anybody. I am not commenting on any body I am simply expressing my feeling. I would like to mention I am not enough intelignet to defend myself all I can say is to beg you to tolerate my weakness.
Baker Academic Official Website has this on sale for $3.19 Logos $10 ?
Wow, I don't understand this. How can the "regular price" for another company on this resource be $3.99 for the digital version, and the "regular price" for Logos is $50.00? That's a pretty big difference.
There is a problem with your statement. The "regular price" isn't $3.99, it is the "sale" price. The link you gave has a store which is discounting that $3.99 even further. If you look HERE, you can see some historical prices from Amazon.
If you look HERE, you can see some historical prices from Amazon.
I see, that's helpful, thanks for the link. I guess this was a little misleading then (at least as a representation of normality) on the link I quoted in my previous post:
. As we know the Author of the Bible is the Holy Spirit it is wiser to say I don't understand than to comment against the Bible and try to say what it does not say. God has raised many scholars throughout the time. It is completely false and un acceptable to claim a new revelation about the Bible what has never been seen up too now. I am just typing this with a grieved heart.
Tes, you have spoken very well. I just want to encourage your heart. Rejoice in the Lord always; again I will say, rejoice!
God has raised many scholars throughout the time. It is completely false and un acceptable to claim a new revelation about the Bible what has never been seen up too now. I am just typing this with a grieved heart.
Brother Tes, I enjoy reading (some of these) scholars because they help you to define your faith. Once you've read them and stretched your perspective and considered what they have to say (probably discarding much of it) ... you realize what your faith really is and why.
BTW, isn't Pentecostalism about new revelations that were unheard of until 1900? [;)]
I guess this was a little misleading then (at least as a representation of normality) on the link I quoted in my previous post:
It is misleading, but not purposefully so. I am sure the data gets auto populated. Various publishers handle things differently, which is why there is a discrepancy with how things work from publisher to publisher.
For example: Zondervan titles in Vyrso rarely get caught in my discount filter. The book might normally be 9.99, but when it goes on sale, it appears as 1.99 regular price. When the sale ends, it goes back to 9.99.
