Sources & Licenses
Every text on this site is in the public domain. This site is free and charges nothing. Each day's summary is made of sentences quoted directly from the sources below, with the author named. Nothing is paraphrased or added.
World English Bible (WEB)
Scripture text shown on this site. Public domain, with no copyright. The name “World English Bible” is used here only for the unmodified text.
C. H. Spurgeon, sermons (New Park Street Pulpit, 1855–1859)
Sermon excerpts by Charles H. Spurgeon (1834–1892), quoted word for word from the original published text of the New Park Street Pulpit (sermons 1–285), as transcribed in Spurgeon’s Sermons Vols. 1–5 at CCEL. Published 1855–1859 and in the public domain. CCEL’s later Spurgeon volumes use a modernized edition, so they are not used here; that is why only some days have a Spurgeon sermon.
C. H. Spurgeon, The Treasury of David (Psalms 1–57)
Spurgeon’s own exposition of the Psalms (original edition, London: Marshall Brothers), from the Project Gutenberg eBooks of Volumes 1 and 2. Public domain in the USA. Only Spurgeon’s exposition is shown, not the extracts from other writers. Psalms 58–150 are not yet available as a proofread public-domain text.
Project Gutenberg #79723 (Vol. 1)Project Gutenberg #79727 (Vol. 2)
Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible (1706–1721)
Public domain. Digital text from the Open Christian Data project (CC0 dataset).
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory (1871)
Public domain (Creative Commons Public Domain Mark 1.0), via the Free Use Bible API.
John Gill, Exposition of the Bible (1746–1766)
Used for the Song of Solomon and 2 Samuel 23. Public domain (Creative Commons Public Domain Mark 1.0), via the Free Use Bible API.
Augustine of Hippo (354–430)
Expositions on the Psalms, Tractates on the Gospel of John, Ten Homilies on 1 John, Our Lord’s Sermon on the Mount, and Sermons on Selected Lessons of the New Testament, in the 19th-century English translations of the Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 1, vols. 6–8, ed. Philip Schaff (Christian Literature Publishing Co., 1886–1888). Public domain; CCEL’s record for each volume marks it Public Domain.
Martin Luther (1483–1546)
English translations by John Nicholas Lenker (Lutherans in All Lands, Minneapolis, 1904–1909): Commentary on Genesis (vols. 1–2), Epistle Sermons (vols. 2–3), the Epistles of St. Peter and St. Jude, and selected sermons; plus A Manual of the Book of Psalms, tr. Henry Cole (London, 1837). All published before 1929 and in the public domain in the USA.
Gutenberg: Genesis vol. 1Genesis vol. 2Epistle Sermons vol. 2Epistle Sermons vol. 3Manual of the PsalmsCCEL: Peter & JudeCCEL: Sermons
Jonathan Edwards (1703–1758)
Sermons and Notes on the Bible from The Works of Jonathan Edwards, with a memoir by Sereno E. Dwight, revised and corrected by Edward Hickman (London, 1834), as transcribed at CCEL (from the Banner of Truth facsimile reprint; only the 1834 text is used). Public domain.
John Calvin, Commentaries
English translations by the Calvin Translation Society (Edinburgh, 1840s–1850s), public domain. Electronic text from CCEL, via the Free Use Bible API.