The 60 pound commentary is a commentary on Job written by a Puritan named Joseph Carroll.

Let's dig in.

Joseph Carroll was born in London in either 1602 or 1603.

He died on March the 10th, 1673 in between those dates that 70 or 71 year old life he was mostly a pastor.

He was educated at Exeter College in Oxford. He received his BA in 1625 and then his master's degree in 1627.

He was ordained to the ministry and found himself in a pulpit in London at

Lincoln's Inn. That was a post he held from 1632 to 1647 and then he was appointed as minister at St. Magnus near London Bridge.

He held that post from the late 1640s until 1662. And that year we call this the

year of the restoration and as Charles the second is on the throne and the act of uniformity is enacted,

this Puritan pastor was kicked out of his pulpit.

And so he went on to found another congregation and managed to have freedom and preach there in London to this independent congregation.

And that's how he spent the last decade of his life from 1662 to 1673.

So an interesting life, Joseph Carroll, you can set it against a very fascinating time in the

British Reformation. Of course the 1640s, this is the time of the Civil War.

It was also the time and the Civil War was Parliament against the King. This was also the time of the Westminster standards and

Carroll was part of the what we call the Westminster Divines, the group of ministers meeting

there at the Westminster Assembly and producing the

Westminster catechisms and the Westminster confession of faith. He preached many

times in fact he was very often a preacher at Parliament and at various meetings of the Parliament and at various

times during the year, but he also perhaps is most famous for his commentary on Job. Now, when it was originally published, it was

published as what are called Quarto volumes. These are smaller books, they're

more hold in the hand kind of sizes. You take a large piece of paper and you

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