Classic Commentaries on the Greek New Testament

This collection consists of more than a dozen commentaries that focus on the text of the Greek New Testament. Most of them were originally published by MacMillan between 1880 and 1920, and a number have been reprinted over the years by publishers like Eerdmans, Zondervan, Kregel, and others.

"The Macmillan commentaries on the Greek NT were among the first acquisitions as I was building my reference library in the 1970s. I still value this series, especially the volumes by Westcott and Lightfoot. I recommend this series...!"

-John R. Kohlenberger III
Co-editor, NIV Exhaustive Concordance; Exhaustive Concordance to the Greek New Testament

Additional Details

A Logos employee discovered one old volume in a used bookshop, and, finding it useful, brought it to work to share with others. Following the trail of titles mentioned in the back of that first volume we’ve put together a great collection. Some of the volumes (like Lightfoot on Galatians) are better known than others, but we believe you’ll find them all useful.

Common to most of the volumes is a running set of notes, sometimes keyed to the verse but more often to a Greek word or phrase. (The print editions also include the whole Greek text of the NT book being commented on; the electronic editions will not, since it’s easier to open a parallel window with the whole Greek NT.)

This “Text and Notes” section is typically bracketed by introductory articles and essays and sometimes followed by a number of related dissertations. The introductory material is voluminous. In many volumes, the page count of the the front matter (in roman numerals) is roughly equal to the page count of the actual commentary, rising over 200 or 250 pages in some volumes (Swete and Lightfoot, particularly).

Three of the volumes (Matthew, Luke, and Acts) are intended for the “average school-boy”, and are thus smaller and less scholarly than the others, but follow the same format.


Electronic Books Included

• St. Paul's Epistle to the Galatians, J. B. Lightfoot
• St. Paul's Epistle to the Philippians, J. B. Lightfoot
• St. Paul's Epistles to the Colossians and to Philemon, J. B. Lightfoot
• Saint Paul's Epistle to the Ephesians, B. F. Westcott
• The Gospel According to St. John, B. F. Westcott
• The Epistles of St. John, B. F. Westcott
• The Epistle to the Hebrews, B. F. Westcott
• The Gospel According to St. Mark, H. B. Swete
• The Apocalypse of St. John, H. B. Swete
• The Epistle of St. James, Joseph B. Mayor
• St. Paul's Epistles to the Thessalonians, George Milligan
• The Gospel According to St. Matthew, Arthur Sloman
• The Gospel According to St. Luke, Rev. John Bond
• The Acts of the Apostles, Thomas Ethelbert

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A screenshot of the Libronix edition of Lightfoot's commentary on Colossians and Philemon. Note the faithful rendition of Syriac and Coptic characters.

Details:

St. Paul's Epistle to the Galatians, J. B. Lightfoot. 1865, MacMillan. 384 pages. Contains: Introduction Text and Notes Dissertations Were the Galatians Celts or Teutons? The Brethren of the Lord St. Paul and the Three

St. Paul's Epistle to the Philippians, J. B. Lightfoot. 12th ed., 1913, MacMillan. 350 pages. Charles Haddon Spurgeon, in Commenting & Commentaries, said “Deservedly regarded as a standard work. The more instructed student will appreciate it.”. Contains: Introduction Text and Notes Dissertations The Christian Ministry St. Paul and Seneca The Letters of Paul and Seneca

Saint Paul's Epistles to the Colossians and to Philemon, J. B. Lightfoot, ??ed., 1879, MacMillan. 428 pages. Contains: Colossians Introduction Text and Notes Philemon Introduction Text and Notes Dissertations The Name Essene Origin and Affinities of the Essenes Essenism and Christianity

Saint Paul's Epistle to the Ephesians, B. F. Westcott, ??ed., 1906, MacMillan. 212 pages. Contains: Introduction Text and Notes Appendix Heads of Doctrine in the Epistle Additional Notes (24 Articles)

The Gospel According to St. John, B. F. Westcott, 1881. 307 pages. This commentary was printed with the English text and most of the notes are keyed to English words, often with the Greek. Contains: Introduction Notes

The Epistles of St. John, B. F. Westcott, 3rd ed., 1892, MacMillan. 380 pages. Contains: Introduction Text and Notes The Two Empires: The Church and the World The Gospel of Creation The Relation of Christianity to Art

The Epistle to the Hebrews, B. F. Westcott, 3rd ed., 1903, MacMillan. 506 pages. Contains: Introduction Text and Notes On the Use of the O.T. in the Epistle

The Gospel According to St. Mark, H. B. Swete, 3rd ed., 1909, rev. 1913, MacMillan. 434 pages. Contains: Introduction Text and Notes

The Apocalypse of St. John, H. B. Swete, 3rd ed., 1909, MacMillan. 558 pages. Contains: Introduction Text and Notes

The Epistle of St. James, Joseph B. Mayor, 2nd ed., 1897, MacMillan. 516 pages. Contains: Introduction The Author External Evidence for the Authenticity of the Epistle Relation of the Epistle to Earlier Writings Relation of the Epistle to the Other Books of the New Testament The Contents of the Epistle Persons to Whom the Epistle is Addressed and Place From Which it is Written On the Date of the Epistle Harnack and Spitta on the Date of the Epistle On the Grammar of St. James On the Style of St. James Did St. James Write in Greek or in Aramaic? Bibliography Apparatus Criticus Paraphrase and Comments

St. Paul's Epistles to the Thessalonians, George Milligan, 1908, MacMillan. 304 pages. Contains: Introduction Text and Notes Additional Notes

"School Editions"

The following three titles (on Matthew, Luke, and Acts) are similar in nature to the above text, but are not quite as comprehensive. They are called School Editions by the original publisher, MacMillan. These texts only contain notes on the Greek text, as seen in the page scans. The volumnious introductory and background matter of the previous volumes (Lightfoot, Swete, Westcott, etc.) is not present. However, these volumes are still useful and contain much valuable information, hence their inclusion in this collection.

The Gospel According to St. Matthew, Arthur Sloman, 1st ed., 1890, MacMillan. 153 pages. From the Preface: “This edition is an attempt to supply to the average school-boy the necessary help and materials to for reading the Greek text of St Matthew intelligently. Few boys will read long notes. Accordingly brevity has been studied as far as is consistent with clearness. The meaning of parables and discourses has been explained, but ‘sermonizing’ has been as far as possible excluded. It is presumed that the student will have Liddell and Scott’s Lexicon by his side, and reference is frequently made thereto.”

The Gospel According to St. Luke, Rev. John Bond, 1890, MacMillan. 164 pages. From the Preface: “My wish has been, (1) To shirk no difficulty which should reasonably be discussed in a commentary of this kind, still less to substitute a pious reflection for such discussion; (2) To make the notes as short as is consistent with clearness.”

The Acts of the Apostles, Thomas Ethelbert Page, 1897, MacMillan. 270 pages. Called “a model of neatness”, this volume went through seven printings by 1897. It was the first in the 'mini-series' that included the volumes on Matthew and Luke.

 

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