This is one of the first three volumes to be published by Eerdmans in a new series, The Church's Bible. Robert Louis Wilken is the chief editor of the series as well as of this particular volume (the other two being The Song of Songs by Richard A. Norris, Jr, and 1 Corinthians by Judith L. Kovacs). Like the other volumes in the series, this book is made up of excerpts from commentaries on the biblical text by ecclesiastical writers from Paul to Thomas Aquinas. Most frequently and extensively excerpted are the complete Isaiah commentaries by Eusebius of Caesarea, Jerome, Cyril of Alexandria and Theodoret of Cyrus, but the volume also contains shorter excerpts from a wide range of writers, including some medieval ones. In his instructive introduction to this volume, Wilken introduces the modern reader to the challenges as well as the rewards of reading pre-modern scriptural interpretation. In two very succinct and informative essays, ‘Interpreting the Old Testament’ and ‘Introduction to the Christian interpretation of Isaiah’, Wilken clarifies the basic hermeneutical key that guided the ancient and medieval Christian interpreters of Scripture: they read the whole of Scripture as one book, authored by the Holy Spirit, and took it to refer throughout to Christ and his Church – in straightforward as well as oblique words. Wilken paints a picture of a continuous tradition of Christian interpretation, marked more or less by the same hermeneutical principles all the way from the New Testament to the great commentators of the third and fourth centuries and later. As a result the reader is not made aware of internal discussions and differences among the early and later interpreters, for example that Origen's type of allegory was controversial among Christians of his own time and later. Also, the aspect of development and change through the centuries is left to the reader to discover for him/herself. On the level of detail, I would have wanted more from Justin among the excerpts; he is represented by one only. But these are minor criticisms. With this volume the modern bible reader has easy access to a veritable treasure trove of ancient commentary on Isaiah. The book of Isaiah was taken by its Christian interpreters to be richer in its Christological and soteriological message than any other Old Testament book. This volume is a splendid exhibition of their skill in such reading of its texts.