The Pulpit Commentary: Acts of the Apostles (Vol. II)

by H. D. M. Spence

Publisher:

Funk & Wagnalls

, 1909

Overview

One of the largest homiletical commentary sets of its kind, this work gives a verse-by-verse exposition, a translation, and historical and geographical information, followed by the homiletics section, homilies by numerous authors, and a homiletical index to the Bible.

Contents

Top Highlights

“The answer means, ‘Not only have we not received the Holy Spirit, but we had not even heard that the dispensation of the Spirit was come.’” (Page 114)

“He is in the earthquake and in the fire and in the great and strong wind, sometimes. He was, here. The earthquake was the moving of his hand, the utterance of his voice, the expression of his mind.” (Page 39)

“What followed those two years, what became of Paul, and what of his saintly biographer, we shall never know.” (Page 326)

“pleased God to draw a curtain over the events, which we cannot penetrate” (Page 326)

“That God is sometimes, if not often, in the terrible” (Page 39)

Product Details

• Title: Acts of the Apostles (Vol. II)
• Author: H. D. M. Spence
• Series: Pulpit Commentary
• Publisher: Funk & Wagnalls
• Print Publication Date: 1909
• Logos Release Date: 2004
• Era: era:modern
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
• Subject: Bible. N.T. Acts › Commentaries
• Resource ID: LLS:29.49.23
• Resource Type: Bible Commentary
• Metadata Last Updated: 2022-02-11T16:27:37Z

About H. D. M. Spence

H.D.M. Spence (1836–1917), or the Very Reverend Henry Donald Maurice Spence, was an Anglican dean and author at the end of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth.

Spence was educated at Westminster School and Corpus Christi College in Cambridge, and ordained in 1865. He lectured in Hebrew at St. David’s College in Lampeter until 1870. He later became rector of St. Mary de Crypt in Gloucester. From 1886 until his death in 1917, Spence served as the Dean of Gloucester. In 1904, he took on his wife’s surname and went by Donald Spence Jones. 

Spence served as the general editor of the best-selling The Pulpit Commentary series, and is the author of several other commentaries and church histories.