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Commentary On the Holy Gospels and the Acts of the Apostles

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Commentary On the Holy Gospels and the Acts of the Apostles is a nineteenth-century devotional commentary by the Scottish minister and writer Henry Mackenzie (1745-1831), better known as the novelist of The Man of Feeling. Mackenzie spent his long Edinburgh career as a man of letters and senior figure of Scottish literary life, but in his later years he produced religious writings for family and parish use. This commentary walks verse by verse through the four Gospels and the Acts, drawing on the standard Scottish Presbyterian biblical scholarship of the late Georgian period and addressing the reader in the plain expository manner of pulpit teaching. The book gives a clear example of the kind of devotional commentary that shaped nineteenth-century Scottish religious reading.

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Henry Mackenzie

Henry Mackenzie FRSE was a Scottish lawyer, novelist and writer sometimes seen as the Addison of the North. While remembered mostly as an author, his main income came from legal roles, which led in 1804–1831 to a lucrative post as Comptroller of Taxes for Scotland, whose possession allowing him to follow his interest in writing.