Below you will find my on-going commentaries on the various books of the Bible.

This is a work in progress. Some things are being added "on the fly" as I write them. Typically, those comments are based on my marginal notes in books that I am reading at the time.

Other comments are my personal observations which I have developed into articles that I thought were best placed in this section of my website.

Then there is that group of commentary that is based on my long-term studies of a particular book for which I have written commentary with the intent to eventually publish in book form.

The latter group most specifically refers to my commentaries on the Proverbs. My Proverbs commentary is a complete study of the book (nearly 1200 pages) which I wrote in the 1980s during my seminary education, but never edited or published. I hope to gradually return to those studies, and bring them up to date and present them here. I also have a similar (but unfinished) commentary on the book of Zephaniah (Zephaniah and the Day of the LORD), and another unfinished commentary on the Psalms entitled Reflections on the Psalms of which "Not So Simple Reflections on Psalm 1" is already published here in the section on the Psalms.

Click any of the links below to read the comments.

The sixty-six books of the Bible, accepted by all Catholic and Reformed/Protestant canons.

I exclude from this list all the Apocryphal and Pseudepigraphical books of both testamental eras, otherwise known as the Extra-canonical texts. Any discussions or commentaries on those texts, or on the Talmud, the Apostolic or Post-apostolic Fathers, the Patristic documents, the Gnostic texts, etc., may be found in other areas of this site.

The thirty-nine books of the Older Testament




Genesis




Exodus




Leviticus




Numbers




Deuteronomy

Deuteronomy: Introductory Notes

Deuteronomy 1:5-8 The Extent of the Promised Land

Deuteronomy 1:13-15: The Biblical Pattern for Government




Joshua




Judges




Ruth




I Samuel




II Samuel




I Kings




II Kings




I Chronicles




II Chronicles




Ezra




Nehemiah




Esther




Job




Psalms

Psalm 1:6. Not So Simple Reflections on Psalm 1




Proverbs




Ecclesiastes




Song of Solomon




Isaiah




Jeremiah

Jeremiah and the Babylonian Captivity




Lamentations




Ezekiel

Ezekiel 34 - Forgiving and Forgetting




Daniel




Hosea




Joel




Amos




Obadiah




Jonah




Micah




Nahum




Habakkuk




Zephaniah




Haggai




Zechariah




Malachi

The twenty-seven books of the New Testament




Matthew




Mark




Luke




John




Acts




Romans

Who are the “All” of Romans 3:20-24? Part One

Who are the “All” of Romans 3:20-24? Part Two




I Corinthians




II Corinthians




Galatians




Ephesians




Philippians




Colossians




I Thessalonians




II Thessalonians




I Timothy




II Timothy




Titus




Philemon




Hebrews




James




I Peter




II Peter




I John

1 John 4:7-11: The Priority of Love




II John




III John




Jude




Revelation

Revelation 20:1-10. Millennial Schizophrenia