Wednesday, January 22, 2025

Survey of Revelation Commentaries

The "Study Light" website provides numerous commentary resources.  There is a range of orthodoxy and quality amongst the resources.  So, I provide the links below merely for reference for those interested, not by way of any kind of recommendation.  Additionally, given that there are already over 80 works that in some way discuss Revelation 16 (usually specifically including verse 5), I thought it would be wise to catalogue those resources I've reviewed in preparation for my planned debate on Revelation 16:5.  God willing in future posts, I will in some way interact with those resources that in some way have a bearing on the specific textual issues that pertain to that debate.  For this post, I merely categorize the resources, according to whether they are:

  • essentially irrelevant: resources in this category range from resources that provide no commentary or even quotation of Revelation 16:5, to those that provide some commentary or a quotation of Revelation 16:5, but that fall short of providing comments that would appear to have any impact on the debate.  I'm not saying that these works are irrelevant in general -- some of them, such as Poole's Annotations, are excellent resources -- just not relevant to my debate on Revelation 16:5.
  • minor relevance: resources in this category have some kind of comments or statements that, while they do not go directly to the heart of the issue, have at least some bearing on the debate (usually in terms of the internal evidence)
  • significant: resources in this category provide some kind of interesting or highly relevant observation
  • most significant: resources in this category in some way directly address the textual issue.  These were, of course, the resources I was looking for in my search.  

Naturally, the "Study Light" website, while extensive, is not complete.  There doubtless are commentaries that are not found on this site, including some of the most recent and most scholarly by contemporary standards.  So, exclusion from the list below means nothing other than that on January 21, 2025, the website did not list the resource (or that I, in my haste, somehow overlooked it). 

Essentially Irrelevant

Minor Relevance

Significant 

Most Significant

God willing, I plan to summarize and discuss the most relevant material from these last three categories of resources, either for a future blog post or video (or both).

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