Expository Thoughts on the Gospels, Volume 2: Mark W. Ross Blackburn ‘It has done me good

‘It has done me good and I think will do good to others

Gifted with an incisive mind which was finely tuned to the highest level of scholarship

At times there seems to be no way to turn

Robert Traill was endowed with a first-class mind and had enjoyed a very complete theological education

he appears successively as schoolboy

Expository Thoughts on the Gospels, Volume 2: Mark W. Ross Blackburn ‘It has done me goodFirst published in 1857, Mark was the second book to appear in J. C. Ryles series of Expository Thoughts on the Gospels. The earliest of the Gospel narratives to be written, Mark, says Ryle, is singularly full of precious facts about the Lord Jesus, narrated in a simple, terse, pithy, and condensed style. Those last four adjectives could well be used to describe Ryles own comments on the Gospel! In one of the occasional explanatory notes, he quotes