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See also:DODS, See also:MARCUS (1834-1909) , Scottish divine and biblical See also:scholar, was See also:born at Belford, See also:Northumberland, the youngest son of Rev. Marcus Dods, See also:minister of the Scottish See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
church of that See also:town. He was trained at See also:Edinburgh See also:Academy and Edinburgh University, graduating in 1854. Having studied See also:theology for five years he was licensed in 1858, and in 1864 became minister of Renfield See also:Free Church, See also:Glasgow, where he worked for twenty-five years. In 1889 he was appointed See also:professor of New Testament Exegesis in the New See also:College, Edinburgh, of which he became See also:principal on the See also:death of Dr See also:Rainy in 1907. He died in Edinburgh on the 26th of See also:April 1909. Throughout his See also:life, both ministerial and professorial, he devoted much See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time to the publication of theological books. Several of his writings, especially a See also:sermon on See also:Inspiration delivered in 1878, incurred the See also:charge of unorthodoxy, and shortly before his See also:election to the Edinburgh professorship he was summoned before the See also:General See also:Assembly, but the charge was dropped by a large See also:majority, and in 1891 he received the honorary degree of D.D. from Edinburgh University. He edited See also:Lange's Life of See also:Christ in See also:English (Edinburgh, 1864, 6 vols.), See also:Augustine's See also:works (1872-1876), and, with Dr See also:Alexander See also:Whyte, See also:Clark's " Handbooks for See also:Bible Classes " See also:series. In the Expositor's Bible series he edited See also:Genesis and 1 See also:Corinthians, and he was also a contributor to the 9th edition of the See also:Encyclopaedia Britannica and See also:Hastings' See also:Dictionary of the Bible. Among other important works are: The See also:Epistle to the Seven Churches (1865); See also:Israel's See also:Iron See also:Age (1874); Mohammed, See also:Buddha and Christ (1877); Handbook on See also:Haggai, See also:Zechariah and See also:Malachi (1879); The See also:Gospel according to St See also:John (1897), in the Expositor's See also:Greek Testament; The Bible, its Origin and Nature (1904), the Bross Lectures, in which he gave an able See also:sketch of the use of Old Testament See also:criticism, and finally set forth his Theory of Inspiration. Apart from his See also:great services to Biblical scholarship he takes high See also:rank among those who have sought to bring the results of technical criticism within the reach of the See also:ordinary reader.
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