Thank you!!
I don't think I could appropriately describe how grateful I am for this Bible. I am really grateful to the Lord for allowing me to be able to find and obtain it. I have only been using it for a couple of weeks now, but it has been a true blessing to my wife and I.
I pray that I will be stirred by the questions from every chapter to seek to know and shepherd my wife's spiritual walk for many years to come. I am grateful to all the people for the work that went into this making this happen.
For a more official review, I would say the size of the study Bible is similar to other Study Bibles I have used before, which is suprising given all of the extra notes and even the confessions at the end. The text-size and font used are both very readable. The "ghosting" between pages is not very noticeable. The print in a full double column, but it doesn't feel too tight because all of the verses are separated into a new line. If someone really enjoys taking notes in this Bible, that might be challenging as there is not much space in the margins; however, that is not much of an issue for me. Overall, the spacing makes for a pleasant reading experience while packing in a lot of information per page.
As far as notes, there are occasional full page notes inserted to include a gem of an idea from a puritan classic (I read one the other day from Stephon Charnock's The Existence and Attributes of God) as well as notes making more simple the KJV text. The editing team tried to find a balance between not telling you all of the meaning of the text, while still pointing the reader in the right direction. There are bolded questions or comments for reflection in the footnotes for each chapter. These are intended to be used to help with family worship, but they are helpful in personal study as well.
The only things I would change about this Bible are very minor. The first is the synthetic leather binding only covers the page itself. I would prefer for a little bit more overlap, which I believe is called a yapp. Secondly, I don't personally feel the need to have the confessions in the Bible. There are several blank pages at the end for notes, and I would just prefer more pages for notes. That being said, this is a wonderful Bible, and given it's overwhelming pros, I look forward this to using this for the next several years.
Also, for any who were curious, prior to picking up this Bible, I had never read the KJV seriously before. I had heard that it was valuable for modern readers to consider reading it, and I agree. I really appreciate Joel Beeke's introduction to the Bible which addresses this idea. I found particularly helpful the idea that since the Bible is the unique and infallible word of God, we need to treat it like that. Reading an older translation forces us to slow down and remember that these words are not just useful and they are not another word from a self-help guru, they are the Word of God.
