Overview
Henry Alford published the third edition of his four-volume New Testament For English Readers in 1872. The subtitle of the work explains that it contains "the Authorized Version, with marginal corrections of readings and renderings, marginal references and a critical and explanatory commentary."
It is Alford's verse-by-verse commentary and lengthy book introductions that give this work its lasting appeal. The KJV text and margin notes will not be reproduced in the Logos edition, but the commentary and introductions will be included in their entirety.
In his commentary, Alford brought within reach of English readers many findings of the German text critics, and introduced a wider audience to this new exegetical approach. His approach was marked by a shift from primarily theological, homiletic concerns to those of philology, historical studies, and text criticism.
Key Features
- Two volumes with two parts each
- Verse-by-verse commentary
- Book introductions
Product Details
- Title: The New Testament for English Readers (4 vols.)
- Author: Henry Alford
- Edition: 3rd
- Publisher: Rivingtons
- Publication Date: 2001
- Pages: 1,941
About the Author
Henry Alford (1810-1871), English divine and scholar, was born in London on the 7th of October 1810. He came of a Somersetshire family, which had given five consecutive generations of clergymen to the Anglican church. Alford's early years were passed with his widowed father, who was curate of Steeple Ashton in Wiltshire. He was an extremely precocious lad, and before he was ten had written several Latin odes, a history of the Jews and a series of homiletic outlines. After a peripatetic school course he went up to Cambridge in 1827 as a scholar of Trinity. In 1832 he was 34th wrangler and 8th classic, and in 1834 was made fellow of Trinity. He had already taken orders, and in 1835 began his eighteen years' tenure of the vicarage of Wymeswold in Leicestershire, from which seclusion the twice-repeated offer of a colonial bishopric failed to draw him. He was Hulsean lecturer at Cambridge in 1841-1842, and steadily built up a reputation as scholar and preacher, which would have been enhanced but for his discursive ramblings in the fields of minor poetry and magazine editing. In September 1853 Alford removed to Quebec Chapel, London, where he had a large and cultured congregation. In March 1857 Viscount Palmerston advanced him to the deanery of Canterbury, where, till his death on the 12th of January 1871, he lived the same strenuous and diversified life that had always characterized him. The inscription on his tomb, chosen by himself, is "Diversorium Viatoris Hierosolymam Proficiscentis."
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