1837 The Holy Bible, Containing the Old and New Testaments. The Text Carefully Printed from the Most Correct Copies of the Present Authorised Translation, Including the Marginal Readings and Parallel Texts. With a Commentary and Critical Notes; Designed as a Help to a Better Understanding of the Sacred Writings.

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Leather Binding, Original Binding, Publishers' Original Binding

Complete in six volumes. New edition, with the author's final corrections. The Holy Bible, containing both the old and new testaments carefully printed from the most correct copies of the present authorised translation of the work, including marginal readings and parallel texts. With a commentary and critical notes from Adam Clarke, an Irish writer and biblical scholar best known for this influential Bible commentary. He was a Methodist theologian who served three times as President of the Wesleyan Methodist Conference and also of the Irish Conference. Volume one contains Genesis to Deuteronomy, volume two Joshua to Esther, volume three Job to Solomon's Son, volume four Isaiah to Malachi, volume five Matthew to Romans, and volume six Corinthians to Revelations. Volume one is illustrated with a portrait frontispiece, a folding genealogical table of the patriarchs from Adam to Jacob and a folding map. Volume five is illustrated with two folding maps. Collated complete. This commentary, which took Clarke forty years to complete, was a primary Methodist theological resource for two centuries. Clarke followed Wesley in opposing a Calvinistic scheme of salvation, and considered Scripture itself a miracle of God's grace that "takes away the veil of darkness and ignorance." His teachings followed the Wesleyan-Arminian positions with specific regards to predestination, prevenient grace, the offer of justification to all persons, the possibility of entire sanctification, and assurance of salvation. His commentary, particularly that on Revelation, identified the Catholic Church with the Antichrist.