A Commentary on the New Testament Vol II: The Acts of the Apostles & Saint Paul's Letters to the Churches - Msg. Knox

Paperback, 370 pages

“Ignorance of the Scriptures is ignorance of Christ.” These famous words of Saint Jerome make for a stirring challenge in the Christian life. For while Sacred Scripture does indeed bear the words of eternal life, those same words also throw difficulties into the path of understanding—apparent contradictions, obscure sayings, parallel passages, variant readings, and so forth. Yet the fact remains that the God who reveals himself to man is the true Light, “full of grace and truth,” and not a God who delights in obscurantism. On these grounds stand Monsignor Ronald Knox’s three volumes of Commentary on the New Testament, originally published in 1952, 1954, and 1956. Intended for a lay readership, rather than scholarly, Knox’s work aims to resolve, at least in part, those difficulties of the New Testament for those who “want to read the Bible for themselves without shirking the difficulties.” 

In this second volume, Knox treats the Acts of the Apostles and St. Paul's Letters to the
Churches, offering clear and concise explanations of disputed and difficult texts. From
the establishment of the Church and the early days of the Great Commission described
in Acts, to the firmly etched blueprint of the Christian worldview provided in St. Paul's
letters to Rome, Corinth, Galatia, Ephesus, Philippi, Colossae, and Thessalonica, Knox
solves linguistic puzzles, untangles historical knots, and clarifies mysteries of the faith,
all for the sake of making known the wisdom and workings of Christ.

The gospel is not a thing of man’s dictation. (The Letter to the Galatians)