John Trapp (1601-1669) was an English Puritan clergyman and schoolmaster (Christ Church, Oxford; headmaster and later rector at Weston-on-Avon and Welford, Warwickshire), best known for his Commentary or Exposition upon the Old and New Testaments, published in instalments between 1647 and 1662 and covering every book of the Bible. It is a verse-by-verse commentary, prized for its terse, epigrammatic style and its enormous range of classical, patristic, and contemporary quotation and anecdote packed into each note.
Text converted from the Internet Archive’s John Trapp’s Bible Commentary EPUB set
(archive.org/details/JohnTrappsBibleCommentaries, 66 files, one per book, 1188 chapters
total). That digitization occasionally flattens Trapp’s original page-foot notes inline into
the running text: Scripture cross-references (tagged #Book Chapter:Verse in the source) are
rendered here as plain parenthetical citations, e.g. “(Revelation 12:9)”; Trapp’s Latin, Greek,
and other marginal glosses and citations are rendered as inline italicised asides, e.g.
[culpa suasoria]. The original lettered footnote markers (a, b, c…) could not be reliably
re-paired with their notes from this source and were dropped rather than guessed at — nothing
of the note text itself is lost, only the precise superscript anchor point. Some OCR-era
character noise (occasional misread letters, a handful of garbled Greek/Hebrew strings) may
remain, as in the source.
Known gap: Exodus 37 is missing from this digitization (no comment file exists between Exodus 36 and 38); no alternative free source for just that chapter was found. Everything else in the canon — 66 books, 1188 of 1189 chapters — is present.
Contents
- Old Testament (928 chapters)
- New Testament (260 chapters)