”(interpretation of the Bible), published under the editorship of prof. (1852–1904). The first twelve-volume edition was published in St. Petersburg, from 1904 to 1913, in the form free application to the journal "The Wanderer". One volume was printed annually, and in 1912 and 1913 two volumes each.
The beginning of the publication of the "Explanatory Bible" was announced in the October issue of the "Wanderer" for 1903. In the annotation of the forthcoming edition, in particular, it was said that when starting this edition, the editors believe that it is meeting the most urgent and urgent needs of our clergy and the whole society. Every year the Bible is spreading more and more both in society and among the clergy, and the time is not far off when it will become a reference book in every pious home. To give the pastors of the Church, as well as all lovers of reading the Word of God in general, a guide to the correct understanding of the Bible, justification and defense of the truth from its distortion by false teachers, as well as a guide to the understanding of many obscure places in it - this is the purpose of this publication.
The Explanatory Bible, therefore, is by no means a strictly scientific publication, because the authors' desire for spiritual edification of readers comes to the fore, as well as the desire to reinforce the authenticity of the Bible with reference to positive science data. The ratio of the scientific and spiritual-educational approach, as well as the level of comments differ from book to book, because a large number of authors, different in their scientific level and vision of the problem, participated in writing them.
Work on the Explanatory Bible began under the editorship of the professor of theology Alexander Pavlovich Lopukhin. But, unfortunately, Alexander Pavlovich died at dawn creative forces in August 1904 and work on this unique edition was continued by his successors. The last volume was published less than a year before the First World War.
The death of the scientist, fortunately, did not lead to the termination of his main publishing projects. Continued by the successors of A.P. Lopukhin, the edition of the "Explanatory Bible" was completed in 1913. Within ten years, twelve volumes were published, consistently offering the reader comments and interpretation of biblical texts on all the books of the Old and New Testaments.
Alexander Pavlovich Lopukhin himself managed to prepare only a commentary on the Pentateuch of Moses, which compiled the first volume of the Explanatory Bible. Starting with the historical books of the Old Testament of the Bible (the books of Joshua, Judges, Ruth, the books of Kings), outstanding Russian biblical scholars, Professor of the Kiev Theological Academy Priest Alexander Alexandrovich Glagolev, Professor of the St. Petersburg Theological Academy Fyodor Gerasimovich Eleonsky, Professor of the Kazan Theological Academy Vasily Ivanovich Protopopov, Professor of the St. Petersburg Theological Academy Ivan Gavrilovich Troitsky, Professor Archimandrite (later Bishop) Joseph, Master of Theology Priest Alexander Vasilyevich Petrovsky, Professor of the Kiev Theological Academy, Professor Vasily Nikanorovich Myshtsyn, Professor of the Moscow Academy Alexander Ivanovich Pokrovsky, Professor of the Kiev Theological Academy Mikhail Nikolayevich Skaballanovich, teacher of the Moscow Theological Seminary Nikolai Petrovich Rozanov, teacher of the St. Petersburg Seminary Pavel Smaragdovich Tychinin, priest Dmitry Rozhdestvensky, N. Abolensky, priest Mikhail Fiveysky, K.N. Faminsky, Archpriest Nikolai Orlov.
"Azbuka Vera" expresses its gratitude to the publishing house "Dar" for the provided text of the interpretation of the "New Testament". Starting in 2005 to republish this classic work of Lopukhin's Explanatory Bible, the publishing house sought to offer it to the reader in a new, more convenient and corrected form. To this end, commentaries on a particular passage of Scripture follow immediately after the biblical text (in the original they are placed at the bottom of the page in small, unreadable type). In an effort to preserve the original text in all its originality, the editors eliminated only obvious flaws and typos, in in large numbers found in the original edition and reproduced in the 1988 Stockholm edition. Latin words and expressions, which are found in a large number of comments in the text, since, unfortunately, the number of errors in them initially exceeded any allowable measure. At the same time, in the new edition, it was decided to refuse to give the Hebrew words in their original spelling and use Cyrillic transcription, as accurately as possible conveying the sound of the words of the Hebrew language.
Moreover, an attempt was made to verify the numerous (about 50,000) references to various places of the Holy Scriptures encountered in the course of the commentary, and to correct the inaccuracies of the first edition of the Lopukhin Explanatory Bible (the number of which turned out to be very significant).
Thus, the interpretation of the Lopukhin Bible in the new edition is one of the best at the moment.
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Name: Explanatory Bible. Old Testament And New Testament
About the book “Explanatory Bible. Old Testament and New Testament" Alexander Lopukhin
"Explanatory Bible. Old Testament and New Testament” is a twelve-volume work of a Russian Orthodox writer, biblical scholar, theologian, translator, researcher, and interpreter Holy Scripture Alexander Lopukhin. Written in an easy and accessible way, this book explains the miracles recorded in the Bible and ties them to historical events. To date, the work has been reprinted more than 20 times.
The author of the book was born in the family of a priest. After graduating from the seminary, Alexander Lopukhin became a student at the St. Petersburg Theological Academy. For two years he was a psalmist at the church of the Russian embassy in New York. Then he returned to his homeland, defended his dissertation and took up teaching and literary activities.
Critics note that each work of the writer is of both literary and scientific value. So, in the book “Explanatory Bible. Old Testament and New Testament” is an incredibly deep understanding of biblical history. The writer proves that the stories about the creation of man, the fall into sin, the flood, the confusion of languages have a real historical basis. This book provides many explanations of life, realities, traditions of the time when the Bible was created. They help to understand the depth and meaning of Biblical Scripture.
In addition, the creator of the work sought to explain certain events of biblical history from scientific positions, that is, with an eye to the data of modern (i.e. pre-revolutionary) biology, physics, geology, archeology, history and other sciences to the author. However, it is worth remembering that, first of all, this book acts as a kind of spiritual edification to the reader, and references to the sciences serve only to confirm the authenticity of the stories presented in the Bible.
The author himself noted that this book is intended for a wide range of readers. After all, he thought that bible story will become the best "teacher" for every sane person. The work was created in order to clarify especially incomprehensible places in the Bible, as well as to avoid "false interpretation".
Please note that in the book of Alexander Lopukhin “Explanatory Bible. Old Testament and New Testament” you will find wonderful engravings by Gustave Dore, an unsurpassed master of his craft, whose works adorn many ancient works on history and religion.
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”(interpretation of the Bible), published under the editorship of prof. (1852–1904). The first twelve-volume edition was published in St. Petersburg, from 1904 to 1913, as a free supplement to the Stranger magazine. One volume was printed annually, and in 1912 and 1913 two volumes each.
The beginning of the publication of the "Explanatory Bible" was announced in the October issue of the "Wanderer" for 1903. In the annotation of the forthcoming edition, in particular, it was said that when starting this edition, the editors believe that it is meeting the most urgent and urgent needs of our clergy and the whole society. Every year the Bible is spreading more and more both in society and among the clergy, and the time is not far off when it will become a reference book in every pious home. To give the pastors of the Church, as well as all lovers of reading the Word of God in general, a guide to the correct understanding of the Bible, justification and defense of the truth from its distortion by false teachers, as well as a guide to the understanding of many obscure places in it - this is the purpose of this publication.
The Explanatory Bible, therefore, is by no means a strictly scientific publication, because the authors' desire for spiritual edification of readers comes to the fore, as well as the desire to reinforce the authenticity of the Bible with reference to positive science data. The ratio of the scientific and spiritual-educational approach, as well as the level of comments differ from book to book, because a large number of authors, different in their scientific level and vision of the problem, participated in writing them.
Work on the Explanatory Bible began under the editorship of the professor of theology Alexander Pavlovich Lopukhin. But, unfortunately, Alexander Pavlovich died at the dawn of his creative powers in August 1904, and his successors continued work on this unique edition. The last volume was published less than a year before the First World War.
The death of the scientist, fortunately, did not lead to the termination of his main publishing projects. Continued by the successors of A.P. Lopukhin, the edition of the "Explanatory Bible" was completed in 1913. Within ten years, twelve volumes were published, consistently offering the reader comments and interpretation of biblical texts on all the books of the Old and New Testaments.
Alexander Pavlovich Lopukhin himself managed to prepare only a commentary on the Pentateuch of Moses, which compiled the first volume of the Explanatory Bible. Starting with the historical books of the Old Testament of the Bible (the books of Joshua, Judges, Ruth, the books of Kings), outstanding Russian biblical scholars, Professor of the Kiev Theological Academy Priest Alexander Alexandrovich Glagolev, Professor of the St. Petersburg Theological Academy Fyodor Gerasimovich Eleonsky, Professor of the Kazan Theological Academy Vasily Ivanovich Protopopov, Professor of the St. Petersburg Theological Academy Ivan Gavrilovich Troitsky, Professor Archimandrite (later Bishop) Joseph, Master of Theology Priest Alexander Vasilyevich Petrovsky, Professor of the Kiev Theological Academy, Professor Vasily Nikanorovich Myshtsyn, Professor of the Moscow Academy Alexander Ivanovich Pokrovsky, Professor of the Kiev Theological Academy Mikhail Nikolayevich Skaballanovich, teacher of the Moscow Theological Seminary Nikolai Petrovich Rozanov, teacher of the St. Petersburg Seminary Pavel Smaragdovich Tychinin, priest Dmitry Rozhdestvensky, N. Abolensky, priest Mikhail Fiveysky, K.N. Faminsky, Archpriest Nikolai Orlov.
"Azbuka Vera" expresses its gratitude to the publishing house "Dar" for the provided text of the interpretation of the "New Testament". Starting in 2005 to republish this classic work of Lopukhin's Explanatory Bible, the publishing house sought to offer it to the reader in a new, more convenient and corrected form. To this end, commentaries on a particular passage of Scripture follow immediately after the biblical text (in the original they are placed at the bottom of the page in small, unreadable type). In an effort to preserve the original text in all originality, the editors eliminated only obvious flaws and typos, which are found in large numbers in the original edition and reproduced in the 1988 Stockholm edition. since in them, unfortunately, the number of errors initially exceeded any allowable measure. At the same time, in the new edition, it was decided to refuse to give the Hebrew words in their original spelling and use Cyrillic transcription, as accurately as possible conveying the sound of the words of the Hebrew language.
Moreover, an attempt was made to verify the numerous (about 50,000) references to various places of the Holy Scriptures encountered in the course of the commentary, and to correct the inaccuracies of the first edition of the Lopukhin Explanatory Bible (the number of which turned out to be very significant).
Thus, the interpretation of the Lopukhin Bible in the new edition is one of the best at the moment.
