The Critical and Exegetical Commentary on the New Testament, also known as “Meyer’s Commentary,” is considered one of the nineteenth century’s best English-language New Testament commentaries.
Heinrich August Wilhelm Meyer, a German Protestant with a gift for languages, was known to have an encyclopedic memory and an appetite for buying books. It was not uncommon for Meyer to be reading his contemporaries in his native German and, at the same time, poring over their work in English, Dutch, and French. A natural linguist, he was also well read in Greek, Latin, and even Gothic.
He published the first commentary in this collection in 1832, at the age of 32. He worked on this series, a lifelong project, for more than 40 years, adding to and extensively updating and revising his work while simultaneously tending to a busy pastorate and raising his own family. He completed 16 volumes before passing the baton to a few of his trusted peers.
Volume one of the Critical and Exegetical Handbook to the Gospels of Mark and Luke covers the entire Gospel of Mark and chapters 1–2 of the Gospel of Luke. Each Gospel contains a detailed introduction by Meyer.
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We have only to repeat that it remains, of its own kind, the very best Commentary of the New Testament which we possess.
—Church Bells
In critical acumen and exegetical skill the great German commentator had perhaps no rival. The difficulties of authorship, style and language, harmony with the other Evangels, the spurious ending of Mark’s Gospel, and the relation of Luke’s Gospel to the Acts of the Apostles, as well as the many textual obscurities that occur in the course of the narratives, required the mastery of “research, the philological, archaeological, and biblico-theological” experience which Meyer above most exegetes possessed.
—British and Foreign Evangelical Review