J.B. Lightfoot’s Commentary on Colossians and Philemon

Today’s free book is Bishop J.B. Lightfoot’s commentary on the Greek text of Paul’s letters to the Colossians and to Philemon. My thanks to Book Aid for making a copy of this public domain title available for digitisation.

Joseph Barber Lightfoot [1828-1889], Saint Paul’s Epistles to the Colossians and to Philemon. A Revised Text with Introductions, Notes, and Dissertations, new edn. London: Macmillan & Co., 1879. Hbk. pp.430. [Click here to visit the download page for this title]

Table of Contents

• Preface to the First Edition
• The Epistle to the Colossians
• Introduction
• Text and Notes
• Epistle to Philemon
• Introduction
• Text And Notes
• Dissertations
  1. The Name Essene
  2. Origin and Affinities of the Essenes
  3. Esenism and Christianity
• Index

Photo credit: The grave of Bishop Joseph Barber Lightfoot, Durham Cathedral by Stephencdickson – Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=81587223