Title: This book is simply wrong, and the original is not hard to read
Product review: Freiday's book is condensed, garbled, and misrepresents Barclay in significant ways. It has very good footnotes, and more importantly, it has section and subsection headings, which Barclay's original lacked.If you can only have one, do not buy Freiday's book. Buy the Quaker Heritage Press edition of the original text. Then buy a pad of Post-Its and start flagging pages.If you can afford two, buy the QHP original to read, and Freiday's version to explain the esoteric references.There's no point in reading a shortened and twisted version if you want to know what it was that Barclay thought. Barclay is not hard to read. He is certainly 17th century wordy, but Freiday's watery interpretation doesn't do the trick.There were passages I puzzled over for years in Freiday's book that became crystal clear when I read what Barclay actually wrote.
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