E. W. (Ethelbert William) Bullinger was born in England. A direct dissent of Swiss reformer Johann Heinrich Bullinger, a covenant theologian, he was born and raised in a home strongly influenced by Wesleyan Methodist doctrine. An Anglican priest as well as secretary of the Trinitarian Bible Society, he is primarily known as a theologian who published numerous books. He is most commonly known for The Companion Bible.
Some of his theology was and remains controversial, but there is no arguing that he had an in-depth knowledge of Aramaic, Greek and Hebrew. Some of his more popular books still in extant include his Figures of Speech Used in the Bible and Number in Scripture.
I looked forward to reading this book because of the information it contained about how Figure of Speech are used in the Bible thereby learning more about the Bible. The books does indeed contain different figures of speech about some of the verses in the Bible but it is not organized in a way that i could use it. I thought it would go systematically through the Bible in an orderly fashion but instead it went through the different categories of figures of speech each highlighting different Bible verses. There is no way to have a Bible verse in mind and then check it against the book. I can not find a way to use. I had such high hopes for this book. To be sure it has a lot of information, but I just cannot find a way to access it.
Great insight but tough read because of the use of Roman numerals, older fonts, and layout of the points and sub-points are quite difficult to decipher at times. But at least it forces me to pay attention.
This is not a book I have read cover to cover, because it's purely a reference book. It's the best one I know of on Biblical figures of speech. However, I have used it often over the years.