Genesis to Deuteronomy: Notes on the Pentateuch

by Charles Henry MacKintosh, Wilbur Moorehead Smith (Foreword)

For more than one hundred years, pastors, teachers, and students of the Bible have benefited from Mackintosh’s deeply devotional commentary on the first five books of the Bible. His reflections are borne out of prolonged reflection and pastoral sensitivity—not abstruse theological concepts or an abstract engagement of the text. Mackintosh coaxingly invites readers to place themselves within the stories of the Pentateuch and confront the issues faced by the characters—to walk the garden with Adam and Eve, to connive with Jacob, to travel with Joseph, and to wander with the Israelites from the bondage of Egypt to the freedom of the Promised Land. The Pentateuch expresses the most basic human sentiments, and exposes the tension between promises and fulfillment, good and evil, belief and deception. Mackintosh’s Notes on the Pentateuch shows how these books lay the groundwork for God’s redemptive history. Charles Henry Mackintosh (1820–1896) was notable for his work in philanthropic work during the Irish Potatoe Famine which affected much of Ireland, Scotland, and England at the time. He converted to Christianity through correspondence with his sister and through reading John Darby's Operations of the Spirit.

928 pages, Hardcover

First published June 1, 1972

About the author

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Reviews

[Reese Walling · Rating 5 out of 5]

Mackintosh’s notes are a beautiful, edifying, and enlightening commentary on the first five books of the Bible. I found myself again and again reading the text he was about to comment on thinking - surely he won’t have much to say on this chapter - only to find that Mackintosh has devoted 10-20 pages of incredible exposition on that very section!

Perhaps the most prolific brethren writer, Mackintosh serves as a rich source into understanding the hermeneutics and appeal of the saints from Plymouth—each chapter is soaked with enlightenment and pastoral exhortations that lead the reader looking inward and upward, hungry for growth and sanctification.

The typical lines of dispensationalism are present but not distracting - with occasional comments on the strict application of a text or prophesy to Israel on earth. But I’d say this reads more solidly as a classical Protestant exposition of the Books of Moses — can’t recommend enough.

[Enko · Rating 5 out of 5]

For the word of God is alive and active. Sharper than any double-edged sword, it penetrates even to dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow; it judges the thoughts and attitudes of the heart