NOTES ON GALATIANS - Gresham Machen
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R. Scott Clark
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"J. Gresham Machen is perhaps best known for his defense of Christianity and especially for his articulate advocacy of confessional Reformed theology. By training, however, he was a New Testament scholar and by practice he was a biblical exegete of the first order. This little work on Galatians is still useful as a witness to Machen's clear-headed insight into the nature and message of Paul's letter to the Galatians. This witness seems particularly relevant in the midst of the current confusion surrounding Paul and the doctrine of justification." - Dr. R. Scott Clark
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Originally posted by R. Scott Clark
"J. Gresham Machen is perhaps best known for his defense of Christianity and especially for his articulate advocacy of confessional Reformed theology. By training, however, he was a New Testament scholar and by practice he was a biblical exegete of the first order. This little work on Galatians is still useful as a witness to Machen's clear-headed insight into the nature and message of Paul's letter to the Galatians. This witness seems particularly relevant in the midst of the current confusion surrounding Paul and the doctrine of justification." - Dr. R. Scott Clark
Eminently quotable!
Brett McKinley
Puritan Board Freshman
It's an incredible book, not really a commentary. Machen had written most of the articles in C. Today from 1931-33.
The very first chapter is worth the entire book on Gal. 1:1. The first word of the epistle: "No." He writes:
"It is a word that is now regarded as highly objectionable, a word that Paul if he had been what modern man would have desired him to be, never would have used.... That word 'not,' we are today constantly being told, ought to be put out of the Christians vocabulary. Our preaching, we are told, ought to be positive and not negative; we ought to present the truth, but ought not to attack error; we ought to avoid controversy and always seek peace. With regard to such a program, it may be said at least that if we hold to it we might just as well close up our New Testaments; for the New Testament is a controversial book almost from beginning to end."
AMEN!
Buy it! It took me over 10 years to find it used, and then it was reprinted! Enjoy.
The very first chapter is worth the entire book on Gal. 1:1. The first word of the epistle: "No." He writes:
"It is a word that is now regarded as highly objectionable, a word that Paul if he had been what modern man would have desired him to be, never would have used.... That word 'not,' we are today constantly being told, ought to be put out of the Christians vocabulary. Our preaching, we are told, ought to be positive and not negative; we ought to present the truth, but ought not to attack error; we ought to avoid controversy and always seek peace. With regard to such a program, it may be said at least that if we hold to it we might just as well close up our New Testaments; for the New Testament is a controversial book almost from beginning to end."
AMEN!
Buy it! It took me over 10 years to find it used, and then it was reprinted! Enjoy.
Larry Hughes
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Andrew
Thanks for the link!
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Thanks for the link!
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