Saints,
We have added 3 new commentaries that were public domain older books and not available online in a browsable format anywhere else on the internet to our knowledge:
The Bible-Work
John George Butler's Bible-Work, published in 1892. Rather than a single commentator's voice, Butler gathered the best comment he could find on every passage and set it side by side, each note signed by whoever wrote it. The result reads as a conversation between scholars and preachers across the centuries, arranged verse by verse.
https://sermonindex.net/commentary/butler/
The Cottage Bible and Family Expositor
Thomas Williams' expositor, revised and edited by the Rev. William Patton and published at Hartford in 1856. It carries a practical exposition of every chapter of the Old and New Testaments together with explanatory notes on individual verses, drawn from Bagster's comprehensive Bible and other standard works, and was written for family reading and Sunday schools rather than for the study.
https://sermonindex.net/commentary/cottage-bible/
The Dutch Annotations
The annotations on the whole Bible ordered by the Synod of Dort in 1618, published in Dutch in 1637 and translated into English by Theodore Haak in 1657. Haak set the notes directly beside the phrases they explain, so the comment reads alongside the text rather than after it. Spurgeon judged them too brief to be of great value — “committees seldom equal the labors of individuals” — while Joel Beeke has argued they deserved far better than that verdict.
https://sermonindex.net/commentary/dutch-annotations/
Irwin's Bible Commentary
Irwin’s Bible Commentary, published in 1928 under the editorship of Clarke Huston Irwin. A single-volume commentary written for ordinary readers rather than scholars: an introduction to every book of the Bible, followed by brief, plain comment running chapter by chapter through the whole of Scripture.
https://sermonindex.net/commentary/irwin/
We have also finally we have released an "amplified" version of the Berean Standard Bible (BSB) called: Berean Standard Amplified (BSA) and have released it to the public domain. It amplifies words based on older english translations and word glosses from lexicons in the greek and hebrew.
Berean Standard Amplified
(Amplified Modern English)
The Berean Standard wording with the meaning of each key word set beside it in brackets, so the sense carried by the Greek or Hebrew is on the page as you read. Every verse links to a word-by-word study of its original text. Public domain.
https://sermonindex.net/bible/BSA/
Each verse also is a "wordstudy" that allows you to mine the original languages of each verse: https://sermonindex.net/bible/wordstudy/ACT/1/8/
These word study pages have an immense amount of tools and details to mine for each word of the verse including:
- Syntax Tree
- Map of the verse
- Several Lexicons
- Audio reading in original language
- 8 commentaries on the verse
- For the words of the verse: Action, Who does what, Divine passive, Time & aspect, Agreement arcs, Rare words, Greek word order
- The word meaning in plain english
- The early church on this verse
- The verse in english compared with several translations
And many more features.
This tool could be a replacement of bible software and is completely free to use.
