3 Mistakes with Commentaries

Stephen Kneale warns of three mistakes we could make with commentaries.

1. Opening commentaries too early
2. Opening commentaries too late
3. Not opening commentaries at all

There is some good advice here, along the lines of our continued counsel to avoid becoming a commentary junkie. I’ve given my own set of mistakes with commentaries. And just as you can disagree with someone’s advice about commentaries, so also you ought to be free to disagree with the commentaries themselves.

The goal is always to allow the biblical text to speak the loudest for itself. Commentaries make great conversation partners but lousy agenda setters.

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