Friday, December 13, 2024

Be Careful with Commentators on Points of Doctrine & Duty

"One of the best Bible scholars of modern times said that commentators are to the Bible what curtains are to windows
A window is made to let in the light; 
a curtain obscures it, or shuts it out.
....the value of any commentary, in points of doctrine or duty, is a minus quantity. 
Indeed almost all the commentators have the faculty of “darkening counsel by words without knowledge” (Job 38:2); of creating difficulties where there are none." 
A.T. Jones