Commentary sources
GEBible serves historical and openly-licensed commentary as a primary source — each note cited by author and date, quoted for study and never as an endorsement. The 39 voices below are every commentary source the study surface can draw on, listed with its license and provenance.
Public domain (37)
| Source | Year | Provenance |
|---|---|---|
| Martin Luther | 1535 | Martin Luther — Commentary on the Epistle to the Galatians (1535), English translation by Theodore Graebner (Zondervan, 1939) — public domain (U.S. copyright not renewed). Text from a community e-Sword module. |
| John Calvin | 1540 | John Calvin's Commentaries (1540-1563) — public domain. Text from the Calvin Translation Society English edition (1840s-50s) via the Christian Classics Ethereal Library (ccel.org). Calvin's coverage is partial (roughly two-thirds of the Bible); uncommented books and verses are honest gaps, never fabricated. The 19th-century editor's footnotes and remarks are omitted so the notes are faithfully Calvin's own voice. |
| Geneva Bible translators | 1599 | Geneva Bible (1599) marginal notes — public domain. |
| John Trapp | 1656 | John Trapp, A Commentary or Exposition upon All the Books of the Old and New Testament (1647–1656) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module. |
| Matthew Poole | 1685 | Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible (1683–1685) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module. |
| William Burkitt | 1703 | William Burkitt's Expository Notes on the New Testament (1700–1703) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module. |
| Matthew Henry | 1710 | Matthew Henry's Commentary on the Whole Bible (1708–1710) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API. |
| John Gill | 1763 | John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible (1746–1763) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API. |
| John Wesley | 1765 | John Wesley, Explanatory Notes Upon the Whole Bible (1754–1765) — public domain. Text via the GEBible commentary corpus. |
| Adam Clarke | 1810 | Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible (1810–1826) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module. |
| Joseph Benson | 1811 | Joseph Benson's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments (1811–1818) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module. |
| Albert Barnes | 1834 | Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible (1834–1885) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module. |
| Charles Bridges | 1846 | Charles Bridges, An Exposition of the Book of Proverbs (1846) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module. |
| Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary | 1859 | George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), Haydock's Catholic Family Bible and Commentary, 1859 edition — public domain. Excludes Psalms (Douay-Rheims chapter numbering differs from Protestant) and Deuterocanonical books (Catholic canon only). |
| John Nelson Darby | 1862 | John Nelson Darby — Synopsis of the Books of the Bible: the New Testament (c. 1857–1862) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module. |
| Lange's Commentary on the Holy Scriptures | 1864 | Lange's Commentary on the Holy Scriptures (Critical, Doctrinal, and Homiletical), ed. John Peter Lange, English translation edited by Philip Schaff (1864–1880) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module. |
| Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown | 1871 | Jamieson, Fausset & Brown — Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API. |
| Daniel D. Whedon | 1874 | Daniel D. Whedon (gen. ed.), Commentary on the Old and New Testaments (1874–1909) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module. |
| Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers | 1878 | A Bible Commentary for English Readers, edited by Charles John Ellicott (1878–1897) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module. |
| The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges | 1878 | The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges (gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne; Cambridge University Press, 1878–1918) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module. |
| C. H. Mackintosh | 1880 | C. H. Mackintosh, Notes on the Pentateuch — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module. |
| The Pulpit Commentary | 1880 | The Pulpit Commentary (1880–1919), ed. H.D.M. Spence-Jones & Joseph S. Exell — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module. |
| Charles H. Spurgeon | 1885 | Charles H. Spurgeon's The Treasury of David (1869–1885) — public domain. Psalms only. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module. |
| John A. Broadus | 1886 | John A. Broadus, Commentary on the Gospel of Matthew (American Baptist Publication Society, 1886) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module. |
| The Biblical Illustrator | 1887 | The Biblical Illustrator, edited by Joseph S. Exell (c. 1880s–1900s) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module. |
| The Expositor's Bible | 1887 | William Robertson Nicoll, ed., The Expositor's Bible (London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1887–1910) — public domain. 65 of 66 books (1 Corinthians is not separately keyed, as that volume carries no machine-parseable verse references); section-level commentary keyed to the opening verse. Introductory and overview sections not keyed to a specific passage are excluded. |
| B. W. Johnson | 1891 | B. W. Johnson's The People's New Testament with Notes (1889–1891) — public domain. Electronic text from the Christian Classics Ethereal Library (CCEL) ThML edition. |
| The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary | 1892 | The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary (gen. ed. Joseph S. Exell; Funk & Wagnalls, c. 1892) — public domain (pre-1929). A full-Bible homiletical/sermon-outline anthology covering 65 of 66 books (2 John is absent from the source module). Text from a community e-Sword module. |
| The Sermon Bible | 1900 | The Sermon Bible, ed. William Robertson Nicoll (1888–1900) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module. |
| William B. Godbey | 1900 | William B. Godbey, Commentary on the New Testament (1896–1900) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module. |
| F. W. Grant | 1903 | F. W. Grant, The Numerical Bible (4th ed., 1903) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module. |
| Alexander MacLaren | 1905 | Alexander MacLaren, Expositions of Holy Scripture (1904–1910) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module. |
| J. R. Dummelow | 1909 | J. R. Dummelow, A Commentary on the Holy Bible (Macmillan, 1909) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module. |
| J. W. McGarvey | 1914 | J. W. McGarvey (with Philip Y. Pendleton), Commentaries on the New Testament (The Fourfold Gospel, 1914; Acts; and the epistles) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module. |
| C. I. Scofield | 1917 | The Scofield Reference Bible (1917 edition), notes by C. I. Scofield — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module. |
| Arno C. Gaebelein | 1922 | Arno C. Gaebelein, The Annotated Bible (1913–1922) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module. |
| Paul E. Kretzmann | 1924 | Paul E. Kretzmann, Popular Commentary of the Bible (1921–1924) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module. |
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Tyndale Open Study Notes
Tyndale Open Study Notes — © Tyndale Open Resources, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Text via the HelloAO Bible API.
License: CC BY-SA 4.0
unfoldingWord translationNotes
unfoldingWord translationNotes — © Distant Shores Media and the Door43 World Missions Community, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Source: git.door43.org/Door43/en_tn.
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