“An exceedingly well-written little book. The book is full of suggestions to officers and directors of charitable institutions, pastors of churches, and all others who have to do with philanthropic administration.”
“Straightforward, forcible, clear, and scintillating with wit, it must be understood; it is educative in the highest sense. A copy of this book ought to find its way into the hands of every school board in the land.” J. Paul Goode.
=Allen, Willoughby C.= Critical and exegetical commentary on the Gospel according to St. Matthew. (International critical commentary.) *$3. Scribner.
For the student who desires to have some understanding of the growth and development of the gospel literature in the first century, A.D., and of the meaning which this particular gospel had for the evangelist and his first readers. “While the author has striven to preserve the distinction between the sphere of the commentator and that of the historian, questions of credibility and theological implication are not entirely avoided, his attitude being for the most part conservative.” (Nation.)
“Partly owing to its formal defect, the book is lacking in breadth of outlook and religious penetration. Hence he has obliged even his most grateful readers to admit that this edition, while marking a distinct advance upon any English work cannot be described by any means as a final commentary upon our first gospel. It is, however, a good book for the advanced student to work with. Sound labor has gone to the making of it, and the very sense of problems in the gospel which it leaves on the mind of the reader will be stimulating, if not satisfying.” James Moffat.
+ − =Am. J. Theol.= 11: 677. O. ’07. 1470w.
“This important work exhibits the well-known critical qualities of the ‘International series,’ and should claim a leading place among commentaries on the first gospel.”
“A thoro and sane ‘Commentary on Matthew’ which is notable especially for its painstaking interpretation of the Greek text and scholarly observations on the sources and structure of the gospel.”
+ =Lond. Times.= 6: 235. Jl. 26, ’07. 1180w.
“The chief merit of the commentary is its painstaking and sympathetic interpretation of the Greek text, without improving observations or wearisome cataloguing of discarded opinions. Especially praiseworthy is his scholarly analysis of the sources of the gospel.”