"To give... for lovers of reading the Word of God, a guide to the correct understanding of the Bible, justification and defense of the truth from its distortion by false teachers, as well as a guide to the understanding of many obscure passages in it — this is the purpose of this publication."

From the annotation to the first edition of the "Explanatory Bible" in the magazine "Strannik", October, 1903

This electronic edition (OCR, editing, layout, proofreading, organization of hypertext links) with God's help was performed by: Olesya Maslova, Igor Grushin, Vladimir Shneider

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Version 2.1 — combining 5 books of the Pentateuch into one file.

Second edition. Institute for Bible Translation. Stockholm. 1987. Revised and supplemented edition, 2003.

The Expository Bible

or a comment on all books

Holy Scripture

Old and New Testaments

A. P. Lopukhina.

Entity.

The concept of the Bible.

With the word "Bible" we associate the idea of one large book containing the entire Holy Scriptures of both the Old and New Testaments. But, in essence, it is not one book, but a whole collection of sacred books, strictly defined by the Church, written at different times, in different places and with different purposes, and belonging either to the divinely inspired (canonical books) or only to God-enlightened men (non-canonical books).

Such composition and origin of the Bible is revealed from the history of the term "Bible" itself. It is taken from the Greek from the word βίβλος, which means "book", and is used in the plural form τά βιβλία from the unities, the diminutive is τό βιβλίον, meaning "a small book", "a book". Therefore τά βιβλία literally means a whole series or collection of such small books. In view of this, St. John Chrysostom interprets this word as one collective concept: "The Bible," he says, "are many books that form one single one."