These commentaries assembled from Reformation writers can be quite interesting. Just as I imagined, this one covering Revelation is exceptionally unique. I don’t think there’s any way you’d be able to grasp the big picture of Revelation in this volume. That’s no fault of the editors whose work is as diligent as others in the series, but with what they had to work with.

No matter your approach to prophecy, you will not really find a polemic for your position here. Reformers approached Revelation as passages to directly apply to the Christian life. As you might guess, that gets tremendously subjective. That almost turns it into a devotional work. What they had to say could be very accurate and insightful to the Christian life, but I’m not sure how much it fully expounded the text.

So come to this book with the right expectations. For a historical representation for how the reformers tackled this book it’s tremendously helpful. If you would approach it more as just devotional reading, you would also find blessing I would think. If you are exegeting the book of Revelation, I think you might not have much help. I’m not sure that’s a problem, because I don’t think the task of exegeting the text has this series as its first choice anyway. Again, remember what this series is about and you will have you a nice book here.

Still, it is fascinating. Just reading how they approached the thousand year reign, for example, will show you what I mean.

For the things that we should be coming to this volume for, I can fully recommend it. 

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