Author’s preface to the second edition
Author’s preface to the second edition
In the years since this commentary first appeared there have been some notable contributions to the literature on these epistles, particularly the great commentaries by Rigaux in French and Best in English. I am grateful to both, and also to those who produced smaller commentaries, such as Ward, Moore, Whiteley and Bruce. These and others have been a great help to me as I worked over the material again. I have indicated my principal indebtednesses in the footnotes.
The revision has also enabled me to rewrite the whole and there are many minor verbal alterations. Some things have been omitted as being of less importance now than in 1956 and this has given me space to include new material. Substantially this is the commentary I wrote in the 1950s, but I trust improved by what I have learned from the scholars I have mentioned and others. The English version used is the New International Version. I trust that in this new form this little book will prove useful to another generation of readers.
I am grateful to Mrs Dorothy Wellington, my former secretary, for her expert typing of the manuscript.
Leon Morris