In this commentary I have not attempted to review all the possible interpretations of modern exegetes or the or the plethora of secondary literature.
ECC volumes are "critical" in terms of their detailed, systematic explanation of the biblical text.
The Greek text of the Letters is less fully attested than is the text of the Gospel.
ECC volumes are "Critical" in terms of their detailed, systematic explanation of the biblical text.
The first task of the exegete of the Psalms is to clarify the obscurities and elucidate the theological significance of these poems.
This volume is an attempt to supply this lack.
This volume has no such ambitious aim as that of being a final commentary on the Gospel according to S. Luke
The commentator should further be a master of the materisl for the textual criticism of the Gospel, which is in itself the study of a lifetime.
The discussion of the question whether the First Epistle and the Gospel are by the same author may seem to many to be almost a waste of time.
The notes on textual criticism in the commentary are intended to treat chiefly those selected variants which make as difference in the sense ; the materials employed do not ordinarily go be yond the apparatus of Tischendorf.