Why I Comment Scripture

Every era has its unique struggles and battles, and every era, every revival of the Gospel, needs someone to re-comment the Scriptures.

Human cognition, social structures, technological development, and psychological understanding today are utterly different from those of the early church, the Middle Ages, the Reformation, or the age of modern apologetics.
Even if the literal translation remains the same, the meaning and the way it reaches the heart will be different.
The meaning of commenting Scripture is not merely to understand the words, but to make the Word of God tangible, practicable, and answerable in the life of today.

True commentary is also the X-ray of a living soul.
When Calvin wrote his Commentary on Isaiah, his own life was marked by spiritual struggle, exile, and political conflict—his commentary naturally bore the warmth of a lived life.
I likewise take Scripture commentary as the theological foundation of my own work,
but my sight and touch of the Bible must inevitably be different, for my path carries the dust and the blood-trails of this age.

Historical depth, text structure/whole narrative, paradoxical tension, a life that can be touched—these are my points of entry into commentary.
I reject the kind of Bible reading that remains only at the level of knowledge,
and I also reject the reduction of Scripture into a personalized, entertainment-driven lifestyle inspiration.
I believe every verse of the Bible carries both promise and blade—able to heal with gentleness, yet also to shatter idols.
Contemporary commentary must help people see this dual nature again, and to hear God’s voice within the reality of their own circumstances.

I am not seeking a job—I am answering a calling.
I was born on a land without the Gospel, and grew up in an environment without the speech of Scripture.
My faith was not handed down through the mouths of people, but came to me across text and screen—
like a prophet by the rivers of Babylon hearing the distant bells of the Holy City;
like a wanderer in the wilderness suddenly catching the scent of olive and cedar.

The history of my faith is not a list of church or fellowship activities,
but a series of runs, falls, and runs again between light and darkness.
The God I know is not confined to the definitions of paper theology,
but the Lord who wrestles with me in reality, and then lifts me to my feet.
So when I see the biblical interpretation split into the cold of scholarship and the thinness of application, I know—
I cannot remain merely a spectator.

In my time, information travels faster than the human heart;
human tools grow more like humans, yet human souls grow more like tools.
Fragmented knowledge, accelerated tempo, shallow emotions, divided values—
these are the battlegrounds of this age, and if the Bible cannot pierce them, it will become another, more refined idol.

I comment Scripture not to build another grand system,
but to let the “Word become flesh” happen again in my time.
I believe every passage of Scripture carries the breath of history,
and must find its footing in the dust of today.
I comment not to seek resonance, but so that people can touch the truth today, breathe the Gospel, and stand upon the promise.

This is a lonely road,
for it must pass through the high walls between academia and life,
and resist the twin pressures of shallowness and coldness.
But if the Lord allows, I am willing to spend my life on this—
to let the Scriptures, in my time, once again become sword and light.


# Aug 16, 2025