Henry Alford

Philological rather than theological in character it marked an epochal change from the old homiletic commentary and though more recent research patristic and papyral has largely changed the method of New Testament exegesis Alford's work is still a quarry where the student can dig with a good deal of profit. He commissioned A. The inscription on his tomb chosen by himself is Diversorium Viatoris Hierosolymam Proficiscentis ("the inn of a traveler on his way to Jerusalem").