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This is the first complete edition of the private biblical notebook that Jonathan Edwards compiled over a period of nearly thirty-five years. Edwards’ “Notes on Scripture” confirms the centrality of the Bible in his thought and provides more balance to earlier depictions of his writings that emphasized the scientific and philosophical while overlooking the biblical dimension. In this critical...

other things, in studying the Languages, and in spending more time in private duties.”3 He never abandoned his early resolve to write about types. He scattered comments about typology in a variety of locations, and those comments reveal his departure from the conservative hermeneutical tradition that found types and antitypes only within the pages of the Bible. In the “Miscellanies,” for example, in an entry entitled “Types,” he spoke of God’s ordering natural things in creation so “that they livelily
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