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lion’s share of expanding my father’s work and class notes, previously
published as The Thessalonian Epistles, into a full commentary for this
series. He is a thorough scholar who fully understands my father’s
teaching from the Epistles.

Dr. Charles Dyer also became an important part of the team. He is an
author and teacher who has been greatly influenced by my father as one
of his students and later a colleague in the administration of Dallas

Theological Seminary. As an Old Testament scholar, Dr. Dyer has taken
up the task of revising my father’s commentary on Daniel, and has also
agreed to work on Matthew’s Gospel for two reasons. First, most of Jesus’
teaching on prophecy is best understood in its Old Testament context.
Second, Dr. Dyer is as familiar with the Holy Land and the setting of
Matthew as anyone I know. He will, I am sure, make both Daniel and the
events of Matthew’s Gospel come alive for every reader of the Walvoord

Commentary series.
So now, almost a decade after my father’s death, his legacy will live

on in this new series of biblical commentaries. I am sure he would have
been proud of the men who have taken up his torch and are passing it to
a new generation of Bible students. As a great man of “The Book,” my
father is greater still because those who follow in his footsteps remain
true to his vision and faithful to the exposition of God’s Word.

John Edward Walvoord

January 2011