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  • Indian Church Commentaries.  London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, n.d.
  • Mackintosh, Charles Henry. Genesis to Deuteronomy: Notes on the Pentateuch. New York: Loiseaux, n.d.
  • Bengel, Johann Albrecht. Gnomon of the New Testament. Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, 1873.
  • Haupt, Paul, ed. The Sacred Books of the Old Testament; A Critical Edition of the Hebrew Text Printed in Colors (The Polychrome Bible). Leipzig: J.C. Hinrichs, 1893.
  • Jamieson, Robert, A. R. Fausset, and David Brown. A Commentary Critical, Practical and Explanatory, on the Old and New Testaments. New York: F.H. Revell, 1880.
  • Nicoll, W. Robertson, and S. G. Ayres. The Expositor’s Bible. New York: A.C. Armstrong, 1903.
  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletic Commentary on the Old Testament: With Critical and Explanatory Notes, Indexes, Etc. 39 vols.New York: Funk & Wagnalls, nd..
  • Hovey, Alvah, et al. An American Commentary on the New Testament. Philadelphia: American Baptist Publication Society, 1884.
  • American Baptist Publication Society. An American Commentary on the Old Testament. Philadelphia: American Baptist Publication Society, 1908.
  • Spence-Jones, H. D. M. The Pulpit Commentary. New York: Funk & Wagnalls Co, 1890.
  • Exell, Joseph S. The Biblical Illustrator: Or, Anecdotes, Similes, Emblems, Illustrations, Expository, Scientific, Geographical, Historical, and Homiletic, Gathered from a Wide Range of Home and Foreign Literature, on the Verses of the Bible. New York: Anson D.F. Randolph & Co, 1880.
  • Simeon, Charles. Horae Homileticae, or, Discourses (in the Form of Skeletons) Upon the Whole Scriptures. London: Printed by Richard Watts, and sold by Cadell and Davies, 1819. (Expository Outlines on the Whole Bible)
  • Vincent, Marvin R. Word Studies in the New Testament. New York: Scribner, 1887.
  • Ryle, J. C. Expository Thoughts on the Gospels. For Family and Private Use : with the Text Complete. New York: Robert Carter, 1857
  • Clarke, Adam. Holy Bible, Containing the Old and New Testament: (Authorized Translation) Including the Marginal Readings and Parallel Texts, with a Commentary and Critical Notes. London: Ward, Lock & Co, 1846
  • Schaff, Philip. A Popular Commentary on the New Testament: By English and American Scholars of Various Evangelical Denominations. Edinburgh [Scotland]: T & T. Clark, 1879.
  • Doddridge, Philip, and Andrew Kippis. The Family Expositor; Or, A Paraphrase and Version of the New Testament; with Critical Notes, and a Practical Improvement of Each Section. Charleston, Mass: Sold by him at Washington Head Bookstore. Sold also by said Etheridge and Co., in Boston. S. Etheridge, printer, 1807.
  • Cook, F. C. The Holy Bible, According to the Authorized Version (A.D. 1611), With an Explanatory and Critical Commentary and a Revision of the Translation, by Bishops and Other Clergy of the Anglican Church. London: J. Murray, 1871. (The Speaker’s Bible) (F.C. Cook)
  • Henry, Matthew, George Bruder, Joseph Hughes, and Samuel Palmer. An Exposition of the Old and New Testaments. Philadelphia: Barrington & Haswell, 1828.
  • Patrick, Simon. Commentaries Upon the Historical Books of the Old Testament. London: Chiswell, 1695.
  • Patrick, Simon. A Critical Commentary and Paraphrase on the Old and New Testament and the Apocrypha. Philadelphia: Carey & Hart, 1846.
  • Patrick, Simon, and John Rogers Pitman. A Critical Commentary and Paraphrase on the Old and New Testament and the Apocrypha. London: Priestley, 1822.
  • Poole, Matthew. Annotations Upon the Holy Bible: Wherein the Sacred Text Is Inserted, and Various Readings Annexed, Together with the Parallel Scriptures. New York: R. Carter and Bros, 1853.
  • Scott, Thomas. The Holy Bible: Containing the Old and New Testaments, According to the Authorized Version ; with Explanatory Notes, Practical Observations, and Copious Marginal References. London: James Nisbet and Co, 1866.
  • Gray, James Comper. The Biblical Museum: A Collection of Notes, Explanatory, Homiletic, and Illustrative, on the Holy Scriptures, Especially Designed for the Use of Ministers, Bible Students, and Sunday-School Teachers. London: Elliot Stock, 1876.
  • Driver, Samuel Rolles, Alfred Plummer, and Charles Augustus Briggs. The International Critical Commentary on the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments. Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, n.d.
  • Adeney, Walter Frederic. The Century/New-Century Bible. New York: H. Frowde; Oxford University Press, 1904.
  • Cambridge Greek Testament. Cambridge [England]: [Cambridge] University Press, n.d.
  • Alford, Henry. The Greek Testament: with a critically revised text: a digest of various readings: marginal references to verbal and idiomatic usage: prolegomena: and a critical and exegetical commentary. London: Longmans, Green, 1898.
  • Weiss, Bernhard, George H. Schodde, and Epiphanius Wilson. A Commentary on the New Testament. New York: Funk & Wagnalls, 1906.
  • Keil, Karl Friedrich, George C. M. Douglas, and Friedrich Bleek. Manual of Historico-Critical Introduction to the Canonical Scriptures of the Old Testament. Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, 1869.
  • Nowack, Wilhelm. Handkommentar zum Alten Testament in Verbindung mit anderen Fachgelehrten. Gottigen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1893-1903.
  • Macmillan /Murray Commentaries
  • Ainsworth, Henry. Annotations on the Pentateuch, or the Five Books of Moses: The Psalms of David ; and the Song of Solomon. With a Memoir of the Author. Edinburgh: Blackie, 1843.
  • Blunt, Henry. A Family Exposition of the Pentateuch. Philadelphia: Hooker & Agnew, 1841.
  • Hengstenberg, Ernst Wilhelm. Dissertations on the Genuineness of the Pentateuch. Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, 1847.
  • Kalisch, M. M. A Historical and Critical Commentary on the Old Testament, with a New Translation. London: Longman, 1855.
  • Candlish, Robert S. The Book of Genesis Expounded in a Series of Discourses. Edinburgh: Black, 1868.
  • Delitzsch, Franz. A New Commentary on Genesis. Edinburgh, T. & T. Clark, 1888-89.
  • Dillmann, August, and August Wilhelm Knobel. Genesis, Critically and Exegetically Expounded. 2 vols. Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, 1897.
  • Jacobus, Melancthon W. Notes, Critical and Explanatory, on the Book of Genesis. New York: R. Carter & Bros, 1866.
  • Thomas, W. H. Griffith. Genesis: A Devotional Commentary. London: Religious Tract Society, 1909.
  • Macgregor, James. Exodus: With Introduction, Commentary, and Special Notes, Etc. Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, 1889.
  • Palmer, Edward Henry. The Desert of the Exodus. Cambridge: Deighton, Bell and Company, 1871
  • Kalisch, Marcus Mortiz. A Historical and Critical Commentary on the Old Testament: Leviticus. London: Longmans, Green, Reader, Dyer, 1867.
  • Barnes, Albert. Notes, Critical, Illustrative, and Practical, on the Book of Job. London: Gall & Inglis, 1851.
  • Caryl, Joseph. An Exposition with Practical Observations Upon the Book of Job. London: Printed by Samuel Simmons, and to be sold at his House, 1677.
  • Alexander, Joseph A. The Psalms, Translated and Explained. New York: Scribner, 1853.
  • Barnes, Albert. Notes, Critical, Explanatory, and Practical, on the Book of Psalms. New York: Harper, 1869-1871.
  • Hengstenberg, Ernst Wilhelm. Commentary on the Psalms. 3 vols. Edinburgh: T. & . T. Clark, 1846.
  • Horsley, Samuel. The Book of Psalms: Translated from the Hebrew: with Notes, Explanatory and Critical. London: F.C. & J. Rivington and Longman, Hurst Rees, Orme & Brown, 1815.
  • Phillips, George. The Psalms in Hebrew; with a critical, exegetical and philological commentary. London: J.W. Parker, 1846.
  • Lawson, George. Exposition of the Book of Proverbs. Edinburgh: William Oliphant, 1821.
  • Malan, Solomon Caesar. Original Notes on the Book of Proverbs: According to the Authorized Version. London: Williams and Norgate, 1889.
  • Wardlaw, Ralph, and J. S. Wardlaw. Lectures on the Book of Proverbs. Edinburgh: A. Fullarton, 1869.
  • Alexander, Joseph A. Isaiah, Translated and Explained. New York: Charles Scribner & Co., 1870.
  • Barnes, Albert. Notes, Critical, Explanatory, and Practical on the Book of the Prophet Isaiah. 2 vols. New York : Leavitt & Allen, 1858.
  • Wilson, Robert Dick. Studies in the Book of Daniel; A Discussion of the Historical Questions. New York: G.P Putnam’s Sons, 1917.
  • Elzas, Abraham. The Minor Prophets: Translated from the Hebrew Text, with an Introduction, and a Commentary, Critical, Philological, and Exegetical. London: Trübner, 1873.
  • Pusey, E. B. The Minor Prophets. New York: Funk, 1885.
  • Jacobus, Melancthon Williams. Notes on the Gospels, Critical and Explanatory; Incorporating with the Notes, on a New Plan, the Most Approved Harmony of the Four Gospels. New York: Robert Carter & Bros, 1856.
  • Pyle, Thomas, and Samuel Clarke. A Paraphrase on the Acts of the Holy Apostles, and Upon All the Epistles of the New Testament, and Upon the Revelations: With a Short Preface to Each Epistle. Oxford: Printed by W. Baxter for Law and Whitaker, London, 1817.
  • Pearce, Zachary. A Commentary, with Notes, on the Four Evangelists and the Acts of the Apostles Together with a New Translation of St. Paul’s First Epistle to the Corinthians, with a Paraphrase and Notes. … By Zachary Pearce … Published from the Original Manuscripts, by John Derby … In Two Volumes. London: Printed by E. Cox, 1777.
  • Gaebelein, Arno Clemens. The Gospel of Matthew: An Exposition. 2 vols. New York: Publication Office, Our Hope, 1910.
  • Godet, Frédéric Louis. A Commentary on the Gospel of St. Luke. Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, 1889.
  • Fawcett, James, and John Fawcett. An Exposition of the Gospel According to St. John. London: Hatchard & Co, 1860.
  • Godet, Frédéric Louis. Commentary on the Gospel of St. John. Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, 1900.
  • Hengstenberg, Ernst Wilhelm. Commentary on the Gospel of St. John. Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, 1865.
  • Luthardt, Christoph Ernst, and Caspar René Gregory. St. John’s Gospel Described and Explained According to Its Peculiar Character. Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, 1876.
  • Alexander, Joseph A. The Acts of the Apostles. New York: Scribner, 1857.
  • Baumgarten, M., A. J. W. Morrison, and Theodor Meyer. The Acts of the Apostles: or, The History of the Church in the Apostolic Age. Edinburgh: T. and T. Clark, 1854.
  • Brown, John. Discourses and Sayings of Our Lord Jesus Christ: Illustrated in a Series of Expositions. New York: R. Carter, 1854.
  • Denton, W. A Commentary on the Acts of the Apostles. London: George Bell and Sons, 1874.
  • Foakes-Jackson, F. J., and Kirsopp Lake. The Beginnings of Christianity: Part I: the Acts of the Apostles. 5 vols. London: Macmillan, 1920.
  • Gloag, Paton J. A Critical and Exegetical Commentary on the Acts of the Apostles. Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, 1870.
  • Lindsay, Thomas M. The Acts of the Apostles: With Introduction, Notes, and Maps. Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, 1884.
  • Neander, August, and J. E. Ryland. History of the Planting and Training of the Christian Church by the Apostles. London: H.G. Bohn, 1851.
  • Vaughan, C. J. The Church of the First Days: Lectures on the Acts of the Apostles. 3 vols. London: Macmillan, 1873
  • Baur, Ferdinand Christian, Allan Menzies, and Eduard Zeller. Paul, the Apostle of Jesus Christ, His Life and Work, His Epistles and His Doctrine. A Contribution to the Critical History of Primitive Christianity. London: Williams and Norgate, 1876.
  • Blunt, Henry. Twelve Lectures Upon the History of St. Paul Delivered During Lent, 1831, at the Church of the Holy Trinity, Upper Chelsea. London: J. Hatchard and Son, 1851.
  • Farrar, F. W. The Life and Work of St. Paul. New York: E.P. Dutton, 1888.
  • Lewin, Thomas. The Life and Epistles of St. Paul. New York: Scribner, Welford and Armstrong, 1875.
  • MacEvilly, John. Exposition of the Epistles of St. Paul and of the Catholic Epistles: Consisting of an Introduction to Each Epistle, an Analysis of Each Chapter, a Paraphrase of the Sacred Text, and a Commentary, Embracing Notes, Critical, Explanatory, and Dogmatical, Interspersed with Moral Reflections. Dublin: W.B. Kelly, 1875.
  • Chalmers, Thomas. Lectures on the Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Romans. New York: R. Carter, 1863.
  • Ewbank, William Withers. A Commentary on the Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Romans. London: J.W. Parker, 1850.
  • Gore, Charles. St. Paul’s Epistle to the Romans: A Practical Exposition. London: J. Murray, 1899.
  • Robinson, Thomas. Suggestive Commentary on St. Paul’s Epistle to the Romans: With Critical and Homiletical Notes. London: R.D. Dickinson, 1878.
  • Wardlaw, Ralph, and J. S. Wardlaw. Lectures on the Epistle to the Romans. Edinburgh: A. Fullarton, 1869.
  • Godet, Frédéric Louis, and A. Cusin. Commentary on St. Paul’s First Epistle to the Corinthians. Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, 1889.
  • Gurnall, William. The Christian in Complete Armour: Or, A Treatise on the Saints’ War with the Devil, Wherein a Discovery Is Made of the Policy, Power, Wickedness, and Stratagems Made Use of by That Enemy of God and His People : a Magazine Opened, from Whence the Christian Is Furnished with Spiritual Arms for the Battle, Assisted in Buckling on His Armour, and Taught the Use of His Weapons, Together with the Happy Issue of the Whole War. London: L.B. Seeley, 1821.
  • Davenant, John, Josiah Allport, and John Davenant. An Exposition of the Epistle of St. Paul to the Colossians. 2 vols. London: Hamilton, Adams and Co, 1831.
  • Bleek, Friedrich. Der Brief an die Hebräer Berlin: Dümmler, 1828-1840.
  • Brown, John. An Exposition of the Epistle of the Apostle Paul to the Hebrews. Edinburgh: William Oliphant and Co, 1862.
  • Delitzsch, Franz. Commentary on the Epistle to the Hebrews. 2 vols. Edinburgh: Clark, 1872.
  • Gouge, William. A Commentary on the Whole Epistle to the Hebrews: Being the Substance of Thirty Years’ Wednesday’s Lectures at Blackfriars. London. 3 vols. Edinburgh: J. Nichol, 1866.
  • Lindsay, William. Lectures on the Epistle to the Hebrews. Edinburgh: W. Oliphant & Co, 1867.
  • McLean, Archibald. A Paraphrase and Commentary on the Epistle to the Hebrews. London: Printed for W. Jones, 1820.
  • Owen, John. An Exposition of the Epistle to the Hebrews. London: Printed for T. Tegg, 1839.
  • Owen, John. An Exposition of the Epistle to the Hebrews With Preliminary Exercitations. 7 vols. Edinburgh: Printed by J. Ritchie, for J. Ogle, 1812.
  • Saphir, Adolph. The Epistle to the Hebrews: An Exposition. New York: Gospel Pub. House, 1902
  • Tait, William. Meditationes Hebraicæ: Or, a Doctrinal and Practical Exposition of the Epistle of St. Paul to the Hebrews, in a Series of Lectures. London: Hamilton, Adams, and Co, 1855.
  • Pierce, Samuel Eyles. An Exposition of the First Epistle General of John, Comprised in Ninety-Three Sermons. 2 vols. London: J. Nisbet, 1835.
  • Daubuz, Charles, and Peter Lancaster. A Perpetual Commentary on the Revelation of St. John. London: printed for the author, and sold by W. Innys, 1730.
  • Elliott, E. B. Horæ Apocalypticæ: Or, A Commentary on the Apocalypse, Critical and Historical. London: Seeley, Jackson and Halliday, 1862.
  • Hengstenberg, Ernst Wilhelm. The Revelation of St John: Expounded for Those Who Search the Scriptures. Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, 1851.
  • Robertson, David, David Robertson, M. Ogle, M. Lochhead, and William Collins. Discourses Showing the Structure and Unity of the Apocalypse: The Order and Connexion of Its Prophecies ; How Far They Have yet Been Fulfilled ; What Part of Them Remains to Be Accomplished – and the Principal Events Which May Still Be Expected, in the Course of Divine Providence, Before the Millennium Commence.Glasgow: Sold by D. Robertson, M. Ogle, W. Collins, and M. Lochhead, 1833.
  • Seiss, Joseph A. The Apocalypse: A Series of Special Lectures on the Revelation of Jesus Christ with Revised Text. 3 vols. New York: Charles C. Cook, 1913.
  • Stuart, Moses. A Commentary on the Apocalypse. Andover: Allen, Morrill, and Wardwell, 1845.
  • Cumming, John. Apocalyptic Sketches. Philadelphia: Lindsay and Blakiston, 1854.