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Paul's Prison Epistles: Ephesians, Philippians, Colossians
Commentary on the books of Ephesians, Philippians, Colossians.
Commentary Series
This series is designed in a unique format to be used as commentaries, as teaching courses, and for expository preaching. The commentaries are thorough, serious, broad, insightful, and practical, with an emphasis on application to the Christian life and ministry. Context is honored; words are defined; metaphors are explained; difficulties are tackled. The commentaries are packed with historical backgrounds and archaeological studies based on the author’s personal research, which is reflected in books such as Bible Times and Ancient Kingdoms and Jews in Fighter Jets. The interpretation is from a literal, dispensational perspective, and the King James Bible is explained but not criticized. There is no hint of modernism nor influence from compromised evangelicalism. The user will find no reference to or dependence upon men such as Origen, Jerome, Augustine, C.S. Lewis, Eberhard Nestle, or Bruce Metzger.
Commentary Series
This series is designed in a unique format to be used as commentaries, as teaching courses, and for expository preaching. The commentaries are thorough, serious, broad, insightful, and practical, with an emphasis on application to the Christian life and ministry. Context is honored; words are defined; metaphors are explained; difficulties are tackled. The commentaries are packed with historical backgrounds and archaeological studies based on the author’s personal research, which is reflected in books such as Bible Times and Ancient Kingdoms and Jews in Fighter Jets. The interpretation is from a literal, dispensational perspective, and the King James Bible is explained but not criticized. There is no hint of modernism nor influence from compromised evangelicalism. The user will find no reference to or dependence upon men such as Origen, Jerome, Augustine, C.S. Lewis, Eberhard Nestle, or Bruce Metzger.
576 pages, ebook
Published October 1, 2021
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November 8, 2024
I wouldn't call it amazing (as in the 5* description), but I did consult this book weekly in preaching through Ephesians, and it helped me land on some passages that I might have otherwise scratched my head on. It helps me to have a voice within my framework rather than only voices outside of it. I'm for both. So few people are writing with this perspective, so I appreciate any counter-cultural opinions, even if it's commentary culture we're going counter to!
Cloud had a reputation for a while of being aggressively abrasive, and he still might be perceived that way by some, but I kind of like that! And, the more I read of his, the less I see an unbiblical aggressiveness and the more I see someone trying to love and obey the Lord. Rather than write it off, I like to learn from it.
The book itself is good. I read only the Ephesians portion, so it was about 280 pages of word by word studies through the book, with a few life lessons along the way. He pulls some from his other writings, I believe, but not in a bad way. It still reads like a unique book and is not just a compilation of blog posts, so I appreciated the format and the clarity.
Cloud had a reputation for a while of being aggressively abrasive, and he still might be perceived that way by some, but I kind of like that! And, the more I read of his, the less I see an unbiblical aggressiveness and the more I see someone trying to love and obey the Lord. Rather than write it off, I like to learn from it.
The book itself is good. I read only the Ephesians portion, so it was about 280 pages of word by word studies through the book, with a few life lessons along the way. He pulls some from his other writings, I believe, but not in a bad way. It still reads like a unique book and is not just a compilation of blog posts, so I appreciated the format and the clarity.
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