COLOSSIANS
By John Davenant
Banner. 334 pages. £19.95
ISBN 0 85151 909 1
Christian ministers owe a great debt to the publisher for the Geneva Series of Commentaries. So many rich volumes have been produced.
If the dust jacket blurb on this commentary is to be believed, then we truly have a gem of exposition here. The claim is made that there will never be a better commentary on Colossians ‘so long as the world endures’. For review purposes it is not possible to read a commentary like this from cover to cover. Yet to dip into it, at those passages that come to mind most readily, truly gives a flavour of the whole. For example, in the 15 or so pages devoted to 1.15, the doctrine of Christ is set forth with meticulous attention, never hard to read and full of the Son of God.
