Commentary on the Old and New Testament
Sutcliffe, Joseph
An English Wesleyan minister, was born at Baildon, Yorkshire. He was converted in early life, was appointed by Wesley to Redruth in 1786, introduced Methodism into the Scilly Isles in 1788, spent the last twenty years of his life in retirement in London, and died May 14, 1856. His course was one of unspotted Christian purity and progressive excellence. In Biblical scholarship he especially excelled. He was an indefatigable writer, publishing in all thirty-two works on religious subjects, the chief being A Commentary on the Old and New Testament (Lond. 1834, 2 volumes, royal 8vo). Excerpted from McClintock & Strong’s Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological, and Ecclesiastical Literature
To comprise the whole Bible in one volume necessitated notes few and brief. Sutcliffe, though an Arminian, is in general so good that we wish we had more of him ; his style is vivacious and forcible.
Excerpted from C. H. Spurgeon’s Commenting &
Commentaries – A Catalogue of Biblical Commentaries and Expositions”
Wesleyan Heritage Collection, Authors, pp. 22–22