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.
The Critical and Exegetical Handbook to the Epistle to the Ephesians and the Epistle to Philemon includes a detailed introduction and a list of exegetical works that Meyer felt were integral to his studies of these two Pauline epistles.
With the Logos edition, you have instant access to a wealth of dictionaries, lexicons, and language reference tools. All Scripture passages link directly to the original-language Bible text and English translations, and double-clicking any Greek word automatically opens a lexicon to help you decipher the word’s meaning and context. This makes the Logos edition of the Critical and Exegetical Handbook to the Epistle to the Ephesians and the Epistle to Philemon perfect for students, pastors, and scholars.
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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
The Handbook to the Epistles to the Ephesians and Philemon is the last of Meyer’s own contributions to the magnum opus of his life. His commentary is—within its prescribed limits—unrivalled. No Biblical scholar has done so much as he to set before us the exact meaning of the sacred text apart from all critical and dogmatical prepossessions. His philological accuracy, his exegetical tact, his profound intuition, allied as they are with stern loyalty to the truth, have placed his volumes in the very foremost rank, and it will be long before they are equaled by the productions of a later day. They form a “monument of gigantic industry and immense erudition,” and that one man should have been able to accomplish so much, and to accomplish it so well, is, to our thinking, marvelous.
—The Baptist Magazine