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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...

limits were exceeded as he applied a typological reading not only to biblical material but also to extra-biblical historical events and natural phenomena. He found, for example, “the great destruction of the heathen” in Constantine’s time to be a foreshadowing of a “vastly greater destruction of the wicked” in the future; similarly, he regarded the screams of an owl as a representation of the misery of devils dwelling in eternal darkness.8 The collective result of his exegesis is a scriptural organon
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