Welcome to Wide Margin Bible Notes

Welcome to my blog, "Wide Margin Bible Notes."

On this blog I will be categorizing and posting any helpful notes that might be placed in the margin of a Bible, whether or not it is in fact a wide-margin Bible.  In most regular Bibles without a wide margin, there is still a fair amount of room for notes.

My hope is for this collection to be an encouraging resource for Bible students everywhere.  You may feel free to copy these notes into your own Bible if you find them helpful.  I have always enjoyed and benefitted from reading the notes written in other people's Bibles and believe others may as well, so that is the reason for this blog.

In particular, the following types of notes will be posted on this blog:

• Cross references.  Either the more pertinent cross references already found in many printed Bibles or additional cross references to consider.
• Word definitions or word studies.
• Relevant quotations from sermons, commentaries or other sources.
• Explanatory notes, paraphrases, expanded translations and other helpful items.
• Pulpit zingers or quips.  One or two line phrases that help drive a preaching point home on a certain passage.
• Sermon outlines for a particular text.
• Notes from published study Bibles.  Occasionally I will post a note from Scofield or some other study Bible.  This will be rare, but if a very helpful note is published somewhere it will be used.
• Critical text differences.  In places where the Received Text underlying the KJV differs from the Critical Text underlying the modern versions, this may be noted in the margin for a variety of reasons.

The majority of the notes will be coming from my own margins in two different Bibles I have taken notes in.  I have been (for several years now) transferring the notes from my old Bible to my new one.  Many additional notes will come from other Christians' Bibles that I may have access to borrow.  Some notes will come from Bibles that I have purchased used.

When I post a note on any given text, you may comment with your own notes on that text or any other observations.

I will try to label all the posts with relevant tags such as "Word study" or "Quote" or something similar.  I will also tag with the book of the Bible, any relevant doctrine and so forth.  In this way the various margin notes posted here can be categorized and collated under a variety of labels.

Please enjoy the blog and be edified.