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I previously reviewed Bishop Robert Barron<\/a>\u2018s\u00a0\u00a0The Word on Fire Bible, Volume I: The Gospels<\/em><\/a>\u00a0on\u00a02 June 2020<\/a>, and the follow-up volume, completing the New Testament, The Word on Fire Bible, Volume II: Acts, Letters and Revelation<\/em><\/a>, on 14 January 2022<\/a>. The<\/a> Word on Fire Bible, Volume III: The Pentateuch<\/a><\/em> is, like the others, a beautiful leather-bound Bible (NRSV version), filled with frequent inserts offering commentary (from Church fathers, Doctors of the Church, popes, saints, and other notable exegetes) and beautiful reproductions of great Catholic art. The book page<\/a> offers a general introduction:<\/p>\n

Volume III of\u00a0The Word on Fire Bible<\/em>\u00a0features the first five books of the Old Testament, collectively known as the Pentateuch: Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy.<\/p>\n

Accompanying the text of Scripture, you\u2019ll find over 90 commentaries from Bishop Robert Barron and over 230 commentaries from mystics, artists, and scholars throughout history. Volume III includes\u2014for the first time in the series\u2014commentaries from Dorothy Day, Ephrem the Syrian, Hildegard of Bingen, Bernard of Clairvaux, and more.\u00a0 This volume also includes over 50 works of art . . .<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

As I did in my other reviews, I\u2019d like to offer what I think are notable and representative examples of the relentlessly helpful and eloquent commentary, with regard to some of the most well-known stories of the first five books of the Bible.\u00a0 It\u2019s a subject matter very close to my heart, having recently written a book, The Word Set in Stone: How Archaeology, Science, and History Back Up the Bible<\/em><\/a> (Catholic Answers Press: March 15, 2023). About half of its text was devoted to the Torah, or Pentateuch. So I\u2019m personally very pleased with the appearance of this Bible at this point in time.<\/p>\n

A gem from the great Catholic apologist and social critic G. K. Chesterton (1874-1936), from his book, Orthodoxy<\/em> (1908) appears at Genesis 3, which chronicles the fall of man, or original sin:<\/p>\n

Modern masters of science are much impressed with the need of beginning all inquiry with a fact. The ancient masters of religion were quite equally impressed with that necessity. They began with the fact of sin \u2014 a fact as practical as potatoes. . . .<\/p>\n

But certain religious leaders . . . have begun in our day . . . to deny the indisputable dirt. Certain new theologians dispute original sin, which is the only part of Christian theology which can really be proved. Some [people] in their almost too fastidious spirituality, admit divine sinlessness, which they cannot see even in their dreams. But they essentially deny human sin, which they can see in the street. (pp. 58-59)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Bishop Barron offers fascinating and thought-provoking analogies in his commentary on Noah\u2019s ark:<\/p>\n

The careful description of the building of the ark and the delineation of its proportions point forward to similar accounts of the construction of the tabernacle in the desert during the Exodus and of the Jerusalem temple. . . .<\/p>\n

In his City of God<\/em>, St. Augustine reads the history of salvation, from biblical times through the era of the Church, as a tale of Noah\u2019s ark \u2014 the little ship, filled with a holy remnant, bouncing on the waves of the stormy sea.<\/p>\n

And this is why the medieval architects also endeavored to make the cathedrals look like great ships. The nave (from the Latin navis<\/em>, meaning \u201cboat\u201d) is surrounded by high walls, which in turn are supported by flying buttresses, which look, for all the world, like oars coming out the side of a ship. . . . The idea is that the Church is Noah\u2019s ark, moving through the stormy waters of sin, the place of safety into which sinners have been called. So the Church is shelter from the storm, a boat tossing on the waves of a dysfunctional world. (pp. 77-78)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Bishop Barron again provides a magnificent commentary on \u201cThe Binding of Isaac\u201d: the story where God commands Abraham to sacrifice his son Isaac (Genesis 22), that baffles many pious, observant Christians as well as Jews; which he describes as \u201cthe most terrifying story in the Old Testament\u201d:<\/p>\n

If you don\u2019t feel some dark anguish upon hearing this story, you haven\u2019t been paying attentions; if there isn\u2019t some anger welling up in you, you haven\u2019t grasped the disturbing core of the narrative. . . . Abraham, in sacrificing his son, was actively willing the impossible, something the mind can\u2019t contain. Until we have experienced something of this intellectual vertigo, we haven\u2019t allowed the story to grasp us adequately.<\/p>\n

This terrifying narrative is one of the most vivid displays of a paradoxical principle that can be found from the beginning to end of the Bible \u2014 namely, the law of the gift. This spiritual maxim can be stated simply: your being increases and is enhanced in the measure that you give it away. And its corollary can be expressed with equal simplicity: your being decreases to the point of annihilation in the measure that you cling to it. . . .<\/p>\n

What is Abraham willing to give away? That which he loves the most, the son of his old age, the child of promise. And the result is the increase of his being. . . . We all must identify that which we love the most and then make of it an offering to God, and we will receive it back multiplied thirty, sixty, or a hundredfold. . . .<\/p>\n

Like Abraham, the heavenly Father was willing to give away what was dearest to him . . . (pp. 141-143)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

For my next sampling, I go to the famous appearance of God to Moses in the burning bush (Exodus 3). Pope Francis is cited, from a General Audience of June 25, 2014, making a point concerning how God\u2019s words tie into the necessity of sacred tradition:<\/p>\n

[H]e defines himself as \u201cthe God of your ancestors.\u201d He doesn\u2019t say: I am the Omnipotent One . . . no: \u201cI am . . . the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.\u201d In this way he reveals himself as the God who made an alliance with our fathers and remains ever faithful to his pact, and calls us to enter into this relationship\u00a0 which precedes us. . . .<\/p>\n

[O]thers, before us, lived the faith and then transmitted it to us. We have received the faith from our fathers, from our ancestors, and they have instructed us in it. (p. 273)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

A wonderful observation by Pope St. Gregory the Great (540-604), comparing the two Testaments, appears in conjunction with Exodus 22:1:<\/p>\n

Some people consider the commandments of the Old Testament stricter than those of the New, but they are deceived by a short-sighted interpretation. In the former, theft, not miserliness, is punished: wrongful taking of property is punished by fourfold restitution. In [the latter], the rich man is not censured for having taken away someone else\u2019s property, but for not having given away his own. He is not said to have forcibly wronged anyone, but to have prided himself on what he received. (p. 368)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I love Dr. Mary Healy\u2019s accessible and informative \u201cIntroduction to Leviticus\u201d (pp. 442-445). Here are some highlights:<\/p>\n

Leviticus: that proverbial book in which the best-laid plans to read the whole Bible cover to cover come to a grinding halt. The resolute reader immediately finds himself immersed in arcane details of animal sacrifice and instructions on what to do with the blood, entrails, and other body parts. What in the world could this ancient manual of sacrifice have to do with faith or the spiritual life today?<\/p>\n

Yet when its secrets are unlocked, Leviticus is a powerfully moving book. . . . Curiously, in Jewish tradition this book was the first that children would study in the synagogue. Perhaps there was a sense that children are naturally attuned to the holy awe that Leviticus evokes. . . .<\/p>\n

God proceeds to give Moses his instructions on how his people are to live in covenant fellowship with him, first in their worship (chapters 1-16) and then in their moral conduct (chapters 17-27). To us, the instructions seem strangely external . . . But as the Letter to the Hebrews explains, all these regulations for the body were a provisional arrangement, imposed \u201cuntil the time comes to set things right\u201d (Heb. 9:10). . . .<\/p>\n

God\u2019s holiness is a difficult lesson for human beings to learn.\u00a0 . . . We take sin lightly. Much of Leviticus, like the rest of the Old Testament, is God\u2019s patient pedagogy in which he unveils the dazzling light of his holiness, and in that light, the ugly, devastating darkness of sin.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

These excerpts provide, I think, a good idea of the innumerable treasures to be found in this volume. As the Word of Fire<\/em> book page explains, this Bible is \u201cdesigned for people reading the Bible seriously for the first time, who may be unsure of what to make of its many events and characters.\u201d And it approaches Holy Scripture \u201cfrom the heart of the Church.\u201d Anyone who reads the commentaries alongside the Old Testament will have a greater appreciation and comprehension of the often misunderstood Hebrew Bible, and how, especially, it sets the groundwork for, and relates to Christianity. The Word of Fire Bible<\/em> will cause folks to \u201ccatch on fire\u201d for the faith!<\/p>\n

I give it my highest, most enthusiastic recommendation. Bravo! to Bishop Barron and to everyone else who participated in this worthy endeavor.<\/p>\n

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Summary<\/em>: Bishop Barron\u2019s Word on Fire Bible (The Pentateuch), is a wonderful, beautiful, educational, and historically fascinating volume. I give it my highest recommendation!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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Formerly a campus missionary, as a Protestant, Dave was received into the Catholic Church in February 1991, by the late, well-known catechist and theologian, Fr. John A. Hardon, S. J. Dave\u2019s articles have appeared in many influential Catholic periodicals, including \"This Rock\" (now called \"Catholic Answers Magazine\"), \"Envoy Magazine\" (Patrick Madrid), \"The Catholic Answer,\" \"The Coming Home Journal,\" \"Gilbert Magazine\" (American Chesterton Society), and \"The Latin Mass.\" He also writes a featured column for every issue of \"The Michigan Catholic\": published by the archdiocese of Detroit, and was editor for most of the apologetics tracts published by the St. Paul Street Evangelization apostolate. Dave\u2019s apologetics and writing apostolate was the subject of a feature article in the May 2002 issue of \"Envoy Magazine.\" He served as the staff moderator at the Internet discussion forum for The Coming Home Network, from 2007-2010. Dave has been interviewed on many nationally syndicated Catholic radio shows, including \"Catholic Answers Live\" (twice), \"Faith and Family Live\" (Steve Wood), \"Kresta in the Afternoon,\" \"Son Rise Morning Show,\" \"Catholic Connection\" (Teresa Tomeo), and \"The Catholics Next Door.\" His large and popular website, \"Biblical Evidence for Catholicism,\" was online from March 1997 to March 2007, and received the 1998 Catholic Website of the Year award from \"Envoy Magazine.\" His blog of the same name (now transferred to Patheos), begun in February 2004, contains more than 1,500 papers, at least 500 debates or dialogues, and over 50 distinct \"index\" web pages. Unsolicited correspondence has indicated many hundreds of conversions (or returns) to the Catholic faith as a result, by God's grace, of these writings. Dave's conversion story was published in the bestselling book \"Surprised by Truth\" (edited by Patrick Madrid; San Diego: Basilica Press, 1994). Sophia Institute Press has published six of his books: \"A Biblical Defense of Catholicism\" (Foreword by Fr. John A. Hardon, S. J., 1996 \/ 2003), \"The Catholic Verses\" (2004), \"The One-Minute Apologist\" (2007), \"Bible Proofs for Catholic Truths\" (2009), \"The Quotable Newman\" (editor: 2012), and \"Proving the Catholic Faith is Biblical\" (2015). He is co-author (with Dr. Paul Thigpen) of the inserts for \"The New Catholic Answer Bible\" (Our Sunday Visitor: 2005), and editor for \"The Wisdom of Mr. Chesterton: The Very Best Quotes, Quips, and Cracks from the Pen of G. K. Chesterton\" (Saint Benedict Press \/ TAN Books: 2009). \"100 Biblical Arguments Against Sola Scriptura\" was published by Catholic Answers in May 2012. His \"Quotable Wesley\" compilation was published by (Protestant \/ Wesleyan publisher) Beacon Hill Press in April 2014. Several of his 49 books are bestsellers in their field. Dave maintains a popular personal Facebook page, a Facebook author page, and has a Twitter account as well. He offers almost all of his books in e-book form on his own Biblical Catholicism site (http:\/\/biblicalcatholicism.com\/), at a permanent deep discount: only $2.99 for ePub, mobi, and AZW, and $1.99 for PDF. His writing has been enthusiastically endorsed or recommended by many leading Catholic apologists, authors, and priests, including Dr. Scott Hahn, Fr. Peter M. J. Stravinskas, Marcus Grodi, Patrick Madrid, Steve Ray, Tim Staples, Devin Rose, Mike Aquilina, Al Kresta, Karl Keating, Fr. Dwight Longenecker, Brandon Vogt, Marcellino D'Ambrosio, and Fr. John A. Hardon, S. J. Dave has been happily married to his wife Judy since October 1984. They have three sons and a daughter, and reside in southeast Michigan (metro Detroit).","sameAs":["https:\/\/biblicalcatholicism.com\/","https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/dave.armstrong.798","https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@LuxVeritatisApologetics"],"url":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/davearmstrong\/author\/davearmstrong"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/davearmstrong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/davearmstrong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/davearmstrong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/davearmstrong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2331"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/davearmstrong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/davearmstrong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74603\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/davearmstrong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/davearmstrong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/davearmstrong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/davearmstrong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}