Is Mathew Henry's Exposition of the bible worth reading ?

Question

After all, its just one mans take on another person(s) novel ?

Answer 1

Matthew Henry is a well respected scholar who shows incredible insight and authority on the Bible. I'm not a big Bible scholar, but find his commentary really useful in broadening my thinking or giving me some sort of application of a particular passage. Use it like an encyclopedia and you'll find it useful - read it cover to cover it would probably drive you insane! Try it out or have a look at a particular passage at your local Christian Bookshop and see what you think.

Answer 2

This is a highly regarded exposition by a commentator who is more scholarly than I am and possibly -- dare I suggest it? -- you. It should be read along with the Bible and is to be used to evaluate what the Bible says, so that you can decide for yourself whether or not you accept what the commentary says. The Bible is not a novel, so a commentary is not to be confused with a critique, which is an individual slant on a work of creative writing. This is a sharing of the fruits of a life of serious study. The important thing, is the reading of Scripture and if you are going to treat it as a novel, it is hard to see what benefit you can derive from it. I hope that Matthew Henry's exposition can be of help to you.

Answer 3

I bought it a few weeks ago and would certainly say its worth having among your library of commentaries. It's much more of a devotional commentary, calling itself a practical exposition of the bible. So if you want something that is more scholarly, which looks at the original meanings of the words and their interpretation, you probably need to look elsewhere, but if you want a good, practical and challenging commentary - on the entire bible - it is definately worth a read.

Answer 4

Try to steer away from any discussion of the nature of God - any kind of discussion about the nature of God will only be degrading to the original, the only reason people try to define God is to try to control Him which is downright idiotic
We all believe, irrespective of our religion, that the God we believe in created the world,and everything in it.If we do not accept this we are admitting another Creator and a God for those other peoplewhom our God did not create, and our God becomes a part-God .
If we believe that our God created the Universe and everything and everyone in it, then why are we fighting people who do not know about our concept of God, but are the creations of the same God?
What we should be doing is - knowing that everyone and everything - we know, and do not know are created by our god, and He would be angry if we hurt any one of His creations in a false bid to glorify Him! (Stupid are we not?)
To top it all; we are killing each other in a bid to get the right to define God our Creator!!
Are we not trying to be more than God when we are attempting to define Him and confine His activities to people who believe in our defenition of him?
can we completely, or even attempt to define God with our limited language and brain
The point is; let us not create God or Gods - it is the other way around Right? It is God who created us. Let us believe that God knows everything without our having to tell Him what to do! With an attitude of surrender -with the realization that God is beyond the capacity of our teeny brain to grasp, Let us live life as a celeberation of God's love, in having created us and this woderful world-let us regain the paradise that God gave us instaed of trying to put Our Creator in a capsule, and to sell him like a street hawker

Answer 5

It's worth the look-see once in a while, but he makes a great many false assumptions; MH is not Gospel.