187 Burg Indexed Scofield Study Bible Morocco [Leather Bound]

Oxford University Press (Editor)

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• Leather Bound
• Publisher: Oxford University Press (April 1985)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0195272382
• ISBN-13: 978-0195272383
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #10,572,905 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4.0 out of 5 stars An old favorite which has blessed many for almost a century, April 24, 1999

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This review is from: 187 Burg Indexed Scofield Study Bible Morocco (Leather Bound)

This study Bible is definitely my favorite, and a favorite of many; a real classic, which will never really become obsolete. I also own Bullinger's Companion Bible (see my review here with Amazon Books), which has many more notes, and scholarly appendixes with useful information, but gets a lot less use. The reason for this is simply because although the marginal notes a are plentiful, many of them are there to take up space and dont really serve any other purpose except to perhaps cast doubt on the biblical text as it stands. When C.I. Scofield has something to comment on in his study Bible, he makes it count, and with very few exceptions, manages to hit it right on the head. It takes the correct view of the Bible (the dispensational/pre-millenial one, 2 Timothy 2:15), and does have some references in the center column. Comparing scripture with scripture is the best way to study (the right "interpretation" is the plain meaning given word-for-word, regardless of what any council of religious authorities of any so-called "church" might think about an individual passage in light of the whole revelation), so I always count these as a big plus in a Bible.

My only complaints on this man's work worth mentioning would be occasional attempts to criticize the text in his notes which he probably did to look smart for the "scholarly" crowd. These notes are very few and far between, and can be forgiven and dismissed easily.

His other notable problem is his defining of a dispensation as "a period of time." Since a dispensing of God's form of dealing with man will usually have a beginning and an end, this is not a big problem in itself, but can become one if this error is emphasized and EVERY distinction in the Bible is segregated from another as a period of time (the hyper-dispensationalism of Bullinger, Stam, O'Hare, et al.); it will also fail to recognize the overlapping and "pop-ups" that occur with dispensations. Regardless of this mistake in defining a dispensation, Scofield's notes reveal a whole lot of Biblical truth, and I would strongly recommend this study Bible (along with "Dispensational Truth" by Clarence Larkin) as being among the first Bible study tools that a new believer should get; he will be well-fed by these scriptural notes and comments.