Expositions of Holy Scripture: John 1–8
Overview
Alexander MacLaren (1826–1910) is ranked among the expert expositors of the nineteenth century. His life was passionately devoted to the study of Scripture and to the pulpit ministry. His career was marked by a faithful commitment to both his church community and to the integrity of the Baptist tradition. His writings and reputation were world renown, and his skill with the English language and ability to handle the biblical languages has inspired students of Holy Scripture for decades. Even to this day, MacLaren is considered to be a prime exemplar of expository preaching. The sermons included in the thirty-two volumes of Expositions of Holy Scripture cover sixty-four of the sixty-six books included in the Protestant canon of Scripture. The 1,500+ sermons are arranged in canonical order making this collection an expository commentary on most of the Bible. MacLaren’s unique ability to handle the original languages of Scripture and his skilled writing style draw the reader deep into the life of Holy Scripture. Logos is pleased to introduce this classic collection of sermons in a searchable electronic format. With the Logos edition of Expositions of Holy Scripture you can easily search over thirty volumes containing more than 1,500 expositional treatises. Scripture passages are easily accessible simply by scrolling your mouse pointer over the reference in the text. This Logos edition will also allows you to easily research MacLaren’s sermons alongside all of your favorite Logos resources.
Top Highlights
“We must rely on a Guide before we accept His directions; and it is absurd to pretend that we trust Him, if we do not go as He bids us. So ‘Follow thou Me’ is, in a very real sense, the sum of all Christian duty.” (Page 326)
“And so, paying no attention to the fact that it was a paralysed man who was doing this, with the true narrow instinct of the formalist, they lay hold only of the fact of the broken Rabbinical restrictions, and try to stop him with these. ‘It is the Sabbath day! It is not lawful for thee to carry thy bed.’” (Page 239)
“And the beginning of all true Christian faith has in it, not merely the intellectual acceptance of certain propositions as true, but a confidence in the veracity of Him by whom they are made known to us, even Jesus Christ our Lord.” (Page 332)
“So ‘he that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with silver, nor he that loveth abundance with increase” (Page 215)
“It is the type of a world full of men suffering various sicknesses, but all sick; the type of a world that gathers with an eagerness, not far removed from despair, round anything that seems to promise, however vaguely, to help and to heal; the type of a world, blessed be God, which, amidst all its sad variety of woe and weariness, yet sits in the porches of ‘a house of mercy,’ and has in the midst a ‘fountain opened for sin and for uncleanness,’ whose energy is as mighty for the last comer of all the generations as for the first that stepped into its cleansing flood.” (Page 236)
- Title: John 1–8
- Author: Alexander Maclaren
- Series: Expositions of Holy Scripture (MacLaren)
- Publisher: Faithlife
- Print Publication Date: 2009
- Logos Release Date: 2009
- Era: era:modern
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subject: Bible. N.T. John 1-8 › Commentaries
- ISBNs: 9780801059674, 0801059674
- Resource ID: LLS:EHSMACLAREN64JN1
- Resource Type: Bible Commentary
- Metadata Last Updated: 2022-09-29T23:38:32Z