According to an online dictionary, an apotheosis is the supreme example, the ideal, the quintessence.  That’s what Dr. Phil Ryken (pastor of Tenth Presbyterian in Philadelphia and one of the guys I like to read and listen to) calls the new ESV Study Bible in this post on the Reformation21 blog.  This really whets my appetite for the release of this new study tool in October.

Ryken notes that the ESV Study Bible will pay particular attention to the literary features of the Biblical text as well as give attention to the redemptive-historical themes of the Bible- that is, it will bring out how the entire Bible points to Christ and his work.  The Old Testament pictures and pre-figures Christ while the New records His life and work and the Apostles through their epistles explain and apply that work.

We use the ESV here at HLPC.  Why not add the ESV Study Bible to your “to be bought” list?