commentaries

http://www.graceonlinelibrary.org/blog/spurgeon-in-defense-of-commentaries/

found this online....liked this:

 

In another thread DHK has offered a solid explanation of this passage in Rom7....several have mis-used this passage recently....along with several other basic passages....jn1:9,Rom5:12-19, 1cor15:22....these wrong ideas could have been avoided if mainline commentaries by proven men had been consulted...this is exactly what Spurgeon was getting at with this;

The temptations of our times lie rather in empty pretensions to novelty of sentiment, than in a slavish following of accepted guides.



A respectable acquaintance with the opinions of the giants of the past, might have saved many an erratic thinker from wild interpretations and outrageous inferences.
{i have to check the archives...was Spurgeon a poster here on BB ?}:laugh:


Usually, we have found the despisers of commentaries to be men who have no sort of acquaintance with them; in their case, it is the opposite of familiarity which has bred contempt.” ~ Charles Spurgeon