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Commentary on the Whole Bible
Excepted From
Matthew 24
Adam Clarke
Published 1810-1826 |

Adam Clarke
1762-1832 |
"I conclude, therefore, that this prophecy has not the least relation to
Judas Maccabeus. It may be asked, to whom, and to what event does it
relate? .. to the destruction of Jerusalem and the Jewish
polity; which in the Gospel is called the coming of Christ
and the days of vengeance, Matthew 16:28; Luke 21:22." (Isaiah
65, p. 513)
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Adam Clarke was born in Ireland in 1762.
Clarke became a Methodist in 1778, and was in a
succession an exhorter, local preacher, and regular preacher. His first
circuit was that of Bradford, Wiltshire, to which he was appointed in
1782. He served in various places and traveled throughout Great Britain,
achieving fame as a preacher, and being president of the British
Conference in 1806, 1814, and 1822.
After 1805 he held an appointment in London, where he
was a member of the committee of the British and Foreign Bible Society
for several years, and one of the advisers of its Oriental publications.
He resigned from this task in 1819, having retired four years
previously, due to his impaired health, to Millbrook, Lancashire, where
he resided until his return to the vicinity of London in 1823. He was
also active in the service of the Wesleyan Missionary Society from its
inception in 1814, making two missionary journeys in 1826 and 1828 to
the Shetland Islands.
The most important of his numerous works was his
Commentary on the Bible (originally published in
eight volumes, 1810-26), which had a long and extensive circulation and
took Clarke over four decades to produce. He also published a
Biographical Dictionary (1802) and its supplement, The
Biographical Miscellany (1806). His Miscellaneous Works
were edited in thirteen volumes by J. Everett (1836-37). Adam Clarke
died in London on Aug. 28, 1832. He is perhaps the most famous
Methodist/Wesleyan commentator to date. (New Schaff-Herzog
Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge.)
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