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An Exposition of the Old and New Testament #1

by Matthew Henry

Excerpt from An Exposition of the Old and New Testaments, Vol. 1 of 9: Wherein Each Chapter Is Summed Up in Its The Sacred Text Inserted at Large in Distinct Paragraphs; Each Paragraph Reduced to Its Proper The Sense Given, and Largely With Practical Remarks and Observations

I. That it is history, and therefore entertaining and very pleasant, edifying and very serviceable to the conduct of human life. It gratifies the inquisitive with the knowledge of that which the most intense speculation could not discover any other way. By a retirement into ourselves, and a serious contemplation of the objects we are surrounded with, close reasoning may advance many excellent truths without being beholden to any other. But for the knowledge of past events we are entirely indebted (and must be so) to the reports and records of others. A notion or hypo thesis of a man's own framing may gain him the reputation of a wit, but a history of a man's own framing will lay him under the reproach of a cheat any further than as it respects that which he himselfis an eye or ear-witness of. How much are we indebted then to the divine wisdom and goodness for these writings, which have made things so long since past as familiar to us as any of the occurrences of the age and place we live in! History is so edifying that parables and apo lognes have been invented to make up the deficiencies of it for our instruction concerning good and evil and, whatever may be said of other history, we are sure that in this history there is no matter of fact recorded but what has its use and will help either to expound God's providence or guide man's prudence.

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738 pages, Hardcover

Published January 30, 2018

About the author

Matthew Henry was an English non-conformist clergyman. Henry's well-known Exposition of the Old and New Testaments (1708–1710) is a commentary of a practical and devotional rather than of a critical kind, covering the whole of the Old Testament, and the Gospels and Acts in the New Testament.