This CD-ROM contains
Notes on The New Testament by Albert Barnes,
totaling approx 5,800 pages.
Albert Barnes' New
Testament Notes is a marvelous resource. It brings
together 11 volumes of Barnes' notes on the entire New
Testament into one volume. The purpose of Barnes' book
is to illuminate and explain obscurities and
difficulties in various parts of the text. It does this
wonderfully. Barnes achieves his purpose by providing
brief notes on certain ideas, terms, and phrases. He
cross-references those things with other passages of the
Bible. Further, for many of the books, Barnes provides
an introduction, contextualizing and explaining it.
Barnes' New Testament Notes is also easy to use
and non-technical. It is not as controversial or
stimulating as some more recent commentaries.
Nevertheless, it has stood the test of time as a helpful
and needed resource. Barnes' New Testament Notes
is an essential tool for anyone trying to learn more
from the New Testament.
About Albert Barnes:
Albert Barnes (December 1, 1798 –
December 24, 1870) was an American theologian, born in Rome, New
York. He graduated from Hamilton College, Clinton, New York, in
1820, and from Princeton Theological Seminary in 1823. Barnes
was ordained as a Presbyterian minister by the presbytery of
Elizabethtown, New Jersey, in 1825, and was the pastor
successively of the Presbyterian Church in Morristown, New
Jersey (1825–1830), and of the First Presbyterian Church of
Philadelphia (1830–1868).
Albert Barnes held a prominent place in the New School branch of
the Presbyterians during the Old School-New School Controversy,
to which he adhered on the division of the denomination in 1837;
he had been tried (but not convicted) for heresy in 1836, mostly
due to the views he expressed in Notes on Romans (1834) of the
imputation of the sin of Adam, original sin and the atonement;
the bitterness stirred up by this trial contributed towards
widening the breach between the conservative and the progressive
elements in the church. He was an eloquent preacher, but
his reputation rests chiefly on his expository works, which are
said to have had a larger circulation both in Europe and America
than any others of their class.
During the Old School-New School split in the Presbyterian
Church in the United States of America, Barnes allied himself
with the New School Branch. He served as moderator of the
General Assembly to the New School branch in 1851. He was an
eloquent preacher, but his reputation rests chiefly on his
expository works, which are said to have had a larger
circulation both in Europe and America than any others of their
class.
Of the well-known Notes on the New Testament, it is said that
more than a million volumes had been issued by 1870. The Notes
on Job, the Psalms, Isaiah and Daniel were also popularly
distributed. The popularity of these works rested on how Barnes
simplified Biblical criticism so that new developments in the
field were made accessible to the general public. Barnes was the
author of several other works, including Scriptural Views of
Slavery (1846) and The Way of Salvation (1863). A collection of
his theological works was published in Philadelphia in 1875.
In his famous 1852 oratory, "What to the Slave is the Fourth of
July?", Frederick Douglass quoted Barnes as saying: "There is no
power out of the church that could sustain slavery an hour, if
it were not sustained in it."
In Barnes' book The Church and Slavery (1857), Barnes excoriates
slavery as evil and immoral, and calls for it to be dealt with
from the pulpit "as other sins and wrongs are" (most pointedly
in chapter VII, "The Duty of the Church at Large on the Subject
of Slavery").
While serving as pastor at the First Presbyterian Church of
Philadelphia, Barnes became the President of the Pennsylvania
Bible Society (located at 7th and Walnut) in 1858 – a position
he served until his death in 1870. He served at First
Presbyterian Church of Philadelphia until 1868. He was then
granted the title Pastor Emeritus.
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