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John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible
This is the classic expositional commentary of the famous Puritan Pastor John dual level table of contents hyperlinked for easy navigation-footnotes
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First published August 2, 2012
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John Gill
697 books28 followersJohn Gill (1697-1771) born at Kettering, Northamptonshire, was an English Baptist, a Bible scholar, and a staunch Calvinist. Gill received the degree of Doctor of Divinity from the University of Aberdeen in 1748. He was a profound scholar and a voluminous author.
His first pastoral work was as an intern at age 21. He became pastor at the Strict Baptist church at Goat Yard Chapel, 1719, his pastorate lasting 51 years. In 1757 his congregation needed larger premises and moved to a Carter Lane, St. Olave’s Street, Southwark. This Baptist church was once pastored by Benjamin Keach and would later become the New Park Street Chapel and then the Metropolitan Tabernacle pastored by Charles Spurgeon.
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His first pastoral work was as an intern at age 21. He became pastor at the Strict Baptist church at Goat Yard Chapel, 1719, his pastorate lasting 51 years. In 1757 his congregation needed larger premises and moved to a Carter Lane, St. Olave’s Street, Southwark. This Baptist church was once pastored by Benjamin Keach and would later become the New Park Street Chapel and then the Metropolitan Tabernacle pastored by Charles Spurgeon.
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February 19, 2015
Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible
Author: John Gill
What can I say about the this commentary? It passes off as scholarly work while at the same time plagiarizes the works of both ancient and modern writers, without giving the slightest credit. You don't even have to look beyond his commentary on Genesis 1 to see the extent of his plagiarism.
For example: Mr. Gill commenting on Genesis 1:20 says, "the moving creature that hath life: an animal life, of which sort of creatures as yet there had been none made; vegetables, or such as have a vegetative life, were made on the third day; but those that have a sensitive and animal life not till this day, the fifth; and the less perfect, or lower sort of these, were first produced, even such as move or "creep" (n), as the word used signifies; which is applied to fishes as well as creeping things, because in swimming their bellies touch the water, and are lose to it, as reptiles on the earth: and of these creeping things in the seas there are innumerable, as the Psalmist says, Psalm 104:25."
Now, let us look at what St. Ambrose states in his Hexaemeron, V, i. 4.
“We know that snakes are called reptiles [lit. “creepers”], because they creep upon the earth: but everything that swims creeps much more, either by appearance or by nature. For although some plunge themselves into the depths, they are still seen to split the water; while those who swim above creep with their whole body, which they drag along the surface of the waters. Whence David says: So is this great sea, which stretcheth wide its arms: there are creeping things without number”(Psalm 104:25)
I find it quite humorous that an individual who despises the works of Catholics, still maintains to plagiarize their works!
Author: John Gill
What can I say about the this commentary? It passes off as scholarly work while at the same time plagiarizes the works of both ancient and modern writers, without giving the slightest credit. You don't even have to look beyond his commentary on Genesis 1 to see the extent of his plagiarism.
For example: Mr. Gill commenting on Genesis 1:20 says, "the moving creature that hath life: an animal life, of which sort of creatures as yet there had been none made; vegetables, or such as have a vegetative life, were made on the third day; but those that have a sensitive and animal life not till this day, the fifth; and the less perfect, or lower sort of these, were first produced, even such as move or "creep" (n), as the word used signifies; which is applied to fishes as well as creeping things, because in swimming their bellies touch the water, and are lose to it, as reptiles on the earth: and of these creeping things in the seas there are innumerable, as the Psalmist says, Psalm 104:25."
Now, let us look at what St. Ambrose states in his Hexaemeron, V, i. 4.
“We know that snakes are called reptiles [lit. “creepers”], because they creep upon the earth: but everything that swims creeps much more, either by appearance or by nature. For although some plunge themselves into the depths, they are still seen to split the water; while those who swim above creep with their whole body, which they drag along the surface of the waters. Whence David says: So is this great sea, which stretcheth wide its arms: there are creeping things without number”(Psalm 104:25)
I find it quite humorous that an individual who despises the works of Catholics, still maintains to plagiarize their works!
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