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The New Testament for English Readers: A Critical and Explanatory Commentary, Volume 2 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...

the festal host (so the word imports) of angels, and the assembly of the firstborn which are written in heaven (who are these? Why are they put with the angels? Why does the Writer place God the Judge of all between the assembly of the firstborn and the spirits of just men made perfect? These, says Delitzsch, are three closely connected questions, and among the very hardest in our Epistle. The answers to them are very various. Many understand the assembly of the firstborn of the firstfruits of the
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