{"id":4841,"date":"2020-05-01T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-05-01T01:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biblicalstudies.org.uk\/blog\/?p=4841"},"modified":"2020-05-01T09:43:40","modified_gmt":"2020-05-01T09:43:40","slug":"commentary-galatians-john-eadie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblicalstudies.org.uk\/blog\/commentary-galatians-john-eadie\/","title":{"rendered":"Commentary on Galatians by John Eadie"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/biblicalstudies.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/galatians_eadie.jpg\" alt=\"John Eadie [1810-1876], A Commentary on the Greek Text of the Epistle of Paul to the Galatians\" class=\"wp-image-4844\" srcset=\"https:\/\/biblicalstudies.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/galatians_eadie.jpg 500w, https:\/\/biblicalstudies.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/galatians_eadie-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/biblicalstudies.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/galatians_eadie-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With the digitisation of the John Eadie&#8217;s commentary on Galatians, <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/biblicalstudies.org.uk\/commentaries_john-eadie.php\" target=\"_blank\">all five of his Greek text commentaries on the letters of Paul are now available in PDF<\/a>. The copy I scanned was published in 1869 and was bought by Charles Haddon Spurgeon in 1873. Inside was hidden a personal letter from the author to Charles Spurgeon, written over 150 years ago. This document will now be transferred to the Archive at <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.spurgeons.ac.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">Spurgeon&#8217;s College<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/biblicalstudies.org.uk\/book_galatians_eadie.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">John Eadie [1810-1876], <em>A Commentary on the Greek Text of the Epistle of Paul to the Galatians<\/em>. Edinburgh: T &amp; T Clark, 1869. Hbk. pp.480. [Click here to visit the download page for this title]<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Table of Contents<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>Preface<\/strong><\/li><li><strong>Introduction<\/strong><ol><li><strong>The Province of Galatia<\/strong><\/li><li><strong>Introduction of the Gospel into Galatia<\/strong><\/li><li><strong>Occasion and Contents of the Epistle<\/strong><\/li><li><strong>Genuineness of the Epistle<\/strong><\/li><li><strong>Place and Time of Composition<\/strong><\/li><li><strong>Commentaries on the Epistle<\/strong><\/li><\/ol><\/li><li><strong>Commentary<\/strong><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"646\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/biblicalstudies.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/letter-from-john-eadie_1-646x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Letter from John Eadie to Charles Spurgeon\" class=\"wp-image-4847\" srcset=\"https:\/\/biblicalstudies.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/letter-from-john-eadie_1-646x1024.jpg 646w, https:\/\/biblicalstudies.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/letter-from-john-eadie_1-189x300.jpg 189w, https:\/\/biblicalstudies.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/letter-from-john-eadie_1-768x1218.jpg 768w, https:\/\/biblicalstudies.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/letter-from-john-eadie_1.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 646px) 100vw, 646px\" \/><figcaption>Letter from John Eadie to Charles Spurgeon<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"646\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/biblicalstudies.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/letter-from-john-eadie_2-646x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Letter from John Eadie to Charles Spurgeon\" class=\"wp-image-4848\" srcset=\"https:\/\/biblicalstudies.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/letter-from-john-eadie_2-646x1024.jpg 646w, https:\/\/biblicalstudies.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/letter-from-john-eadie_2-189x300.jpg 189w, https:\/\/biblicalstudies.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/letter-from-john-eadie_2-768x1218.jpg 768w, https:\/\/biblicalstudies.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/letter-from-john-eadie_2.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 646px) 100vw, 646px\" \/><figcaption>Letter from John Eadie to Charles Spurgeon<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">6 Thornville Terrace<br>Glasgow<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right wp-block-paragraph\">8 October<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My Dear Sir,<br><br>I got from you when up last in London &#8211; Herman Heinfetter &#8211; Could you discover who he is. His address is 17 Fenchurch Street and his translation was published by Evans Evans Paternoster Row &#8211; I would like to know simply whether it is a real name or only a non de plume. Also could you get me Lemoine&#8217;s History of Printing and send it to me by post this is, I think,  a large book. I am not coming up for the Revision tomorrow and so I bother you today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right wp-block-paragraph\">Yours sincerely,<br><br>John Eadie<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Notes<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Herman Heinfetter<\/strong>. Is, as Eadie suspected, a non-de-plume: that of Frederick Parker. See <strong><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/truthhistory.blogspot.com\/2013\/08\/the-mystery-of-herman-heinfetter.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a><\/strong> for more details.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Revision.<\/strong> John Eadie was a member of the Committee for the Revision of the New Testament (Revised Version) from 1870. It met once a month in the Jerusalem Chamber of Westminster Abbey. This would date the letter between 1870 and 1875. John Eadie died in June 1876.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the digitisation of the John Eadie&#8217;s commentary on Galatians, all five of his Greek text commentaries on the letters of Paul are now available in PDF. The copy I scanned was published in 1869 and was bought by Charles Haddon Spurgeon in 1873. 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