The interpreter´s Bible is a guidebook to the city of the Bible. To some readers the Bible is a foreign city: they can find in this commentary, if it is properly used, a veritable "open-sesame". To other readers the Bible is a familiar place: even they may find by means of these volumes treasures wich they never dreamed were just around the corner. The Bible has towers and streets and rivers, plazas and libraries ans shrines, incalculably more historic and lifegiving twelve years of labor by over one hundred exegetes and espositors, with a commensurate outlay of money. Justifies? Nay, requieres it in every century; for the Bible offer that enrichment and fellowship wich other cities promise but fail to provide. It is more than a "city of refuge": it is the home of the "beloved community" of God in Christ.