John Through Old Testament Eyes (A Background and Application Commentary) by Karen
H. Jobes is one of the first releases in this new series of commentaries that
seek to work from the fact that the Bible of the New Testament authors was the
Old Testament, and, as they write, the write with the Old Testament Scripture,
history, and symbols of the Old Testament.
Thus, it is difficult to understand the New Testament fully without seeing
it “through Old Testament Eyes.”
As Saint Augustine writes, “The new
is in the old concealed; the old is in the new revealed.”
As commentaries do, this commentary
goes through the text of the Gospel and explains it – though not every
verse. The original languages are used
sparsely, so this is not a barrier to ministers or teachers using this
commentary.
In addition to the running
commentary, there are shaded blocks of several types: “what the structure
means,” “through Old Testament Eyes,” and “going deeper.” The first looks at significant
structural issues that make a difference in interpreting the text, the second shows
the connection of the texts between the testaments, and the third explores the
issue or term in the text and invites personal reflection on what this means
practically.
The commentary ends with a list of
abbreviations, pagination of the three types of shaded blocks (as above), a
selected bibliography, endnotes, and a Scripture index.
This commentary, and the others in
the series should prove very useful for preachers and teachers to help them
understand the fulness of the text better – especially as the two testaments
relate to each other.
[This review appears on my blog, Amazon.com, Kregel.com, and
Goodreads.com.]
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