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Indexed Shelves — Verse-Routed

Commentary Books

Seventy-two commentary shelves indexed on the estate — routed atom-by-atom when you read a verse, never dumped as a bulk download. Scripture stays the authority; commentary is a study aid beside the text.

ScriptureCommentaryStrong'sCross-refsHonest Limits

Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth. — 2 Timothy 2:15

Scripture is the authority; Dave is a study aid — see /dave-how-it-works for limits. Each card names an indexed commentary shelf — open the passage on /bible or /bible-reader; excerpts load via /api/bible/commentary when available for that verse.

72 JSON shelves on the estate (~235 MB total); status indexed_local means routed at read time, not a public corpus dump. Full shelf honesty at /bible-data.

Metadata Cards, Not a Bulk Archive

This browser lists what the ministry holds — book name, testament, entry counts, and routing posture. It does not publish full commentary text on one page. That would bury Scripture under secondary voices.

Pick a book, open chapter one on the Bible reader, and study word-by-word. When a verse has indexed commentary, the reader lane and API can surface short excerpts — always labeled as commentary, never as Scripture.

Browse 72 Commentary Books

indexed_local — routed at read time via /api/bible/commentary, not bulk-exported. Full shelf honesty at /bible-data.

Old Testament

New Testament

Deuterocanonical (Apoc)

Sample Commentary Shelves (72 indexed)

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