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For anyone interested in serious Bible study, good commentaries can be
very helpful. They can point you to many verses related to a
passage you are studying. They can help you apply a Bible verse to
your life. They can also mislead you. It is best to be very
careful of which commentaries you use. Not all commentators are
"Reformed" and so they may have a wrong view of some very significant
Bible doctrines, such as God's sovereignty and man's total depravity.
The following commentaries are pretty reliable, yet what they write is
not inspired so keep that in mind as you utilize these Bible study aids.
Matthew Henry was reformed and his commentary has been popular for many
years and reliable. The best and most exhaustive commentary is
probably John Gill's
Exposition of the Old and New Testaments.
In print it is huge and expensive. It can be found online for free
and it also is available on CD. And to quote a pastor from Canada
speaking about John Gill: "As a scholar of the Word,
Gill has no equal today. For this reason his insights are still very
often fresh and original. I have learned much from this mighty preacher,
pastor and teacher! There have been times when I ended up disagreeing
with a particular understanding of a verse or passage. But one had
better have pretty good reasons to disagree with Gill since his grasp of
the whole counsel of God was far superior to anyone I can think of
living today.".
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