"...I wish to express to you my undivided support and enthusiasm for this ongoing project. I look forward to the opportunity when I can devote the necessary time to the project. This is an important, indeed historical, work of scholarship. I offer you my encouragement to continue to meet your goal of giving a completed manuscript to the publisher in the late summer of 2004."

+ MAXIMOS
Metropolitan of Ainou
Bishop of Pittsburgh
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America

"The holy work you are undertaking is of vital importance to the future of the Orthodox faith in the English speaking world, especially here in North America. At a time when Christian groups and others are subjecting our people to so many unorthodox materials, it is crucial to our future to have a Bible with interpretation founded on the faith of our fathers."

+ Metropolitan PHILIP
Primate of the Antiochian Orthodox Archdiocese of North America

"All Orthodox Christians throughout the English-speaking world are to be grateful for the dedicated efforts of the many persons who have continued to labor on this important project. Grateful thanks should also be expressed to those who have supported this work.

May the God of Abraham, Issac, and Jacob, the God and Father of our Lord, Jesus Christ, continue to bless and preserve those who now labor in preparing the Old Testament section of the Orthodox Study Bible."

+ THEODOSIUS
Archbishop of Washington
Metropolitan of All America and Canada
Primate of the Orthodox Church in America