EXPOSITORY NOTES ON THE GOSPEL OF MATTHEW

Loizeaux Brothers, New York, 1948, 1^st ed.  Hard cover, 407 pages.  Maroon boards with gold lettering on spine; edge and cover wear, light corner wear; spine ends bumped with some wear and a bit of fraying at top end.  Binding sound; no jacket.  Prior owner’s name and date in pencil on FEP, another owner’s label at bottom edge of FEP.  A few pencil margin lines and notes, with the majority of pages unmarked; pages lightly tanned.  ‘… it is placed rightfully at the beginning of the New Testament; for it is very definitely the connecting link between the prophets of old and the new dispensation of grace.  The many quotations in it from the books of the prophets are designed to show how our Lord Jesus Christ came as the promised King of Israel, in exact accordance with the numerous predictions which God had inspired His servants to give from Abraham’s day to that of Malachi, when prophetic testimony ceased, and was silent for four hundred years, until John the Baptist, the last of the prophets, came declaring, “The time is fulfilled.”’ (from Introduction)