Excerpt from A Plain Commentary on the Four Holy Gospels, Vol. 1: Intended Chiefly for Devotional Reading; Part I., St. Matthew, Chapters I.-XIII
Complaint is often made of the want of an English Commentary on Holy Scripture; and it' is not to be denied that, in the department of Exegesis, our Theological Literature is exceed ingly deficient. But it seems to be not always remembered by those who complain, that stu dents of the Bible are not all in search of exactly the same thing.
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John William Burgon was an English Anglican divine who become the Dean of Chichester Cathedral in 1876. He is remembered for his passionate defense of the historicity and Mosaic authorship of Genesis and of Biblical inerrancy in general.