Digital Logos Edition
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.

“No man can be fruit-bearing unless he sacrifices himself” (Page 130)
“The little window shows us, too, what was habitually in His mind and heart. He, as it were, hears the striking of the hour of His glorification; in which expression the ideas of His being glorified by drawing men to the knowledge of His love, and of the Cross being not the lowest depth of His humiliation, but the highest apex of His glory—as it is always represented in this Gospel—seemed to be fused together.” (Page 129)
“The one side is the contemplative life of interior union with God by faith and love; the other, the active life of practical obedience in the field of work which God provides for us. These two are both capable of being raised to their highest power, and of being discharged with the most unrestricted and joyous activity, on condition of our keeping close to Christ, and living by the faith of Him.” (Page 29)
“And so at the beginning, in the middle, and at the end of His career the same idea is cast into the same words, a witness of the hold that it had upon Him, and the continual presence of it to His consciousness.” (Page 142)
“The one thing that entitles men to interpret Christ’s death as the supreme manifestation of love is that it was a death voluntarily undertaken for a world’s sins.” (Page 147)