Proverbs: A Commentary on Proverbs.

Charles Bridges.

ISBN 10: 0851510884 / ISBN 13: 9780851510880

Published by The Banner of Truth Trust, Edinburgh, U.K., 1968

About this Item

Second hand book. Book condition fine. Title- Proverbs: A Commentary on Proverbs. Author- Charles Bridges. Book color- red, hardcover. '' The Book naturally opens with a short account of its author. Solomon is recorded as the wisest of men; a man of wisdom, because a man of prayer. ( 1 Kings,III. 12. Comp. chap. II. 1- 9.) His extraordinary wisdom was the admiration of the world.'' Quote from chapter I of this book. Extra charges will be charged to cover postage cost because of the size and weight of this book.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Proverbs: A Commentary on Proverbs.
• Publisher: The Banner of Truth Trust, Edinburgh, U.K.
• Publication Date: 1968
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0851510884
• ISBN 13: 9780851510880
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 4th Edition
• Condition: Fine
• Weight: 0.75 kilograms

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Synopsis

The Book of Proverbs, in Bridges' view, 'is not generally estimated at its just value'. The author ofThe Christian Ministrydoes not favour a purely technical study of the text, but gives a homiletical and practical treatment. 'The best work on the Proverbs', was C.H. Spurgeon's verdict on this commentary. 'Whilst explaining the passage in hand, he sets other portions of the word in new lights'.

About the Author

Charles Bridges (1794-1869) was one of the leaders of the Evangelical party in the Church of England in the nineteenth century. He was the vicar of Old Newton, Suffolk, from 1823 to 1849, and later of Weymouth and Hinton Martell in Dorset.

Educated at Queen's College, Cambridge, Bridges was ordained in 1817. As a preacher he was called upon for such important occasions as the Clerical Conference at Weston-super-Mare in 1858 (when he preached along with J. C. Ryle) and the consecration of the Bishop of Carlisle in York Minster in l860.

Renowned though he was in his own day for his pulpit ministry, his subsequent fame rests in the books which came from his pen An Exposition of Psalm CXIX (1827), Forty-eight Scriptural Studies (5th ed. 1833), Fifty-four Scriptural Studies (1837), An Exposition of the Book of Proverbs (1846), a Manual for the Young (1849), and An Exposition of the Book of Ecclesiastes (1860). His The Christian Ministry went through nine editions within 20 years of its appearance in 1829 and has probably remained unequalled in its field. These works earned high commendation from many, including C. H. Spurgeon, who described all Bridge's writings as 'very suggestive to ministers.'