| Based on the Revised Standard Version, Second Catholic Edition, this volume leads readers through a penetrating study of the Letters of St. Paul to the Philippians, Colossians, and Philemon, using the biblical text itself and the Church’s own guidelines for understanding the Bible. Ample notes accompany each page, providing fresh insights and commentary by renowned Bible teachers Scott Hahn and Curtis Mitch, as well as time-tested interpretations from the Fathers of the Church. These helpful study notes make explicit what the author of the Letters of St. Paul to the Philippians, Colossians, and Philemon often assumes. They also provide rich historical, cultural, geographical, and theological information pertinent to the Letters.
Scott Hahn and Curtis Mitch present insights and inspiring commentary on the Letters to the Philippians, Colossians and Philemon in this 9th volume of the new Ignatius Study Bible series. Containing Bible study helps and tools, in addition to the Hahn-Mitch notes, they include insights from the Church Fathers, topical essays, word studies and charts, study questions, maps, and a cross-reference section.
The Ignatius Study Bible also includes Topical Essays, Word Studies and Charts. Each page also includes an easy-to-use cross-reference section. Study Questions are provided for each chapter of the Letters. These can deepen your personal study of God’s Holy Word. There is also an introductory essay covering questions of authorship, date, destination, structure, and themes. An outline of the Letters and several maps are also included.
“This Bible study is a triumph of both piety and scholarship, in the best Catholic tradition: simply the most useful succinct commentary that any Christian or other interested person could hope for.” ~Erasmo Leiva-Merikakis, Author, Fire of Mercy, Heart of the Word |
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