The Pulpit Commentary: Exodus (Vol. I)

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 Israelite year would seem to have hitherto commenced with the autumnal equinox” (Page 258)

“Cattle constitute a large part of the wealth of every nation. They are of importance for food, for burden, and for the produce of the dairy.” (Page 200)

“the various afflictions had caused nothing but pain and annoyance to the person. Now this was to be changed” (Page 198)

“The connection seems to indicate that his hardening was partly the result of the news that they had all escaped. This, instead of softening, maddened and embittered him. Hitherto Pharaoh has been seen hardening himself in spite of the influences brought to bear on him.” (Page 201)

“These were made to suffer from a ‘murrain’ or epidemic pestilence, which carried off vast numbers.” (Page 199)

Product Details

• Title: Exodus (Vol. I)
• 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. O.T. Exodus › Commentaries
• Resource ID: LLS:29.7.9
• Resource Type: Bible Commentary
• Metadata Last Updated: 2022-02-11T16:30:30Z

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.