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Offline Drolo

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Recommend me a good bible commentary
« on: April 29, 2023, 08:21:49 AM »
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  • I finished the bible, but the commentaries were a bit modernist, so ask for a good trad bible commentary. I want to read Leonardo Castellani's Apocalypse, but I don't know good comments for the rest of the bible.



    Offline moneil

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    Re: Recommend me a good bible commentary
    « Reply #1 on: April 29, 2023, 09:15:18 AM »
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  • The Haydock Bible Commentary by Father George Leo Haydock, published in 1859.  Here is a link to an online version which is "interlinear" with the Douay-Rheims:  https://haydockcommentary.com/

    It is available in hardcopy.  The commentary may be available as a "stand alone reference" but I've only seen it together with the Douay-Rheims text.

    Here is a short bio of Father Haydock from the Catholic Encyclopedia:
    https://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07160a.htm

    There is a lengthier bio at Wikipedia
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Leo_Haydock


    Offline Marius

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    Re: Recommend me a good bible commentary
    « Reply #2 on: April 29, 2023, 09:26:39 AM »
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  • I think the best is by Cornelius a Lapide, but as far as I know only the Gospels are translated into English.
    If the world is against the Truth, then I am against the World. - St. Athanasius
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    Offline AnthonyPadua

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    Re: Recommend me a good bible commentary
    « Reply #3 on: April 29, 2023, 11:13:00 PM »
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  • I think the best is by Cornelius a Lapide, but as far as I know only the Gospels are translated into English.
    Catena Aurea is also good for Gospels. Unfortunately I don't know any good traditional commentaries on the other biblical texts.

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    If only it were all so simple! If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?

    ― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago