Classic Commentaries on the Greek New Testament

This collection consists of more than a dozen commentaries that focus on the text of the Greek New Testament. Most of them were originally published by MacMillan between 1880 and 1920, and a number have been reprinted over the years by publishers like Eerdmans, Zondervan, Kregel, and others.

"The Macmillan commentaries on the Greek NT were among the first acquisitions as I was building my reference library in the 1970s. I still value this series, especially the volumes by Westcott and Lightfoot. I recommend this series...!"

-John R. Kohlenberger III
Co-editor, NIV Exhaustive Concordance; Exhaustive Concordance to the Greek New Testament

Additional Details

A Logos employee discovered one old volume in a used bookshop, and, finding it useful, brought it to work to share with others. Following the trail of titles mentioned in the back of that first volume we’ve put together a great collection. Some of the volumes (like Lightfoot on Galatians) are better known than others, but we believe you’ll find them all useful.

Common to most of the volumes is a running set of notes, sometimes keyed to the verse but more often to a Greek word or phrase. (The print editions also include the whole Greek text of the NT book being commented on; the electronic editions will not, since it’s easier to open a parallel window with the whole Greek NT.)

This “Text and Notes” section is typically bracketed by introductory articles and essays and sometimes followed by a number of related dissertations. The introductory material is voluminous. In many volumes, the page count of the the front matter (in roman numerals) is roughly equal to the page count of the actual commentary, rising over 200 or 250 pages in some volumes (Swete and Lightfoot, particularly).

Three of the volumes (Matthew, Luke, and Acts) are intended for the “average school-boy”, and are thus smaller and less scholarly than the others, but follow the same format.
Electronic Books Included

* St. Paul's Epistle to the Galatians, J. B. Lightfoot
* St. Paul's Epistle to the Philippians, J. B. Lightfoot
* St. Paul's Epistles to the Colossians and to Philemon, J. B. Lightfoot
* Saint Paul's Epistle to the Ephesians, B. F. Westcott
* The Gospel According to St. John, B. F. Westcott
* The Epistles of St. John, B. F. Westcott
* The Epistle to the Hebrews, B. F. Westcott
* The Gospel According to St. Mark, H. B. Swete
* The Apocalypse of St. John, H. B. Swete
* The Epistle of St. James, Joseph B. Mayor
* St. Paul's Epistles to the Thessalonians, George Milligan
* The Gospel According to St. Matthew, Arthur Sloman
* The Gospel According to St. Luke, Rev. John Bond
* The Acts of the Apostles, Thomas Ethelbert