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The New Testament for English Readers: A Critical and Explanatory Commentary, Volume 1 is unavailable, but you can change that!

Henry Alford’s four-volume New Testament edition, complete with in-depth introductions to each book and an extensive verse-by-verse commentary, is a work of lasting appeal. Alford takes great pains to build a solid foundation for readers approaching the works of the Gospels and Epistles. Written in an effort to expose nineteenth-century English-language readers to critical thought and commentary...

in marriage processions: see also Luke 19:13. to meet the bridegroom] It would appear that these virgins had left their own homes, and were waiting somewhere for the bridegroom to come,—probably at the house of the bride; for the object of the marriage procession was to fetch the bride to the bridegroom’s house. Meyer however supposes that in this case the wedding was to be held in the bride’s house, on account of the thing signified—the coming of the Lord to His Church;—but it is better to take
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