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See also:GEDDES, See also:ALEXANDER (1737-1802) , Scottish See also:Roman See also:Catholic theologian, was See also:born in Rathven, See also:Banffshire, on the 14th of See also:September 1937. He was trained at the Roman Catholic See also:seminary at Scalan and at the Scottish See also:College in See also:Paris, where he studied biblical See also:philology, school divinity and See also:modern See also:languages. In 1764 he officiated as a See also:priest in See also:Dundee, but in May 1765 accepted an invitation to live with the See also:earl of See also:Traquair; where, with abundance of leisure and the See also:free use of an adequate library, he made further progress in his favourite biblical studies. After a second visit to Paris, which was employed by him in See also:reading and making extracts from rare books and See also:manuscripts,he was appointed in 1769 priest of Auchinhalrig and Preshome in his native See also:county. The freedom with which he fraternized with his See also:Protestant neighbours called forth the rebuke of his See also:bishop (See also:George See also:Hay), and ultimately, for See also:hunting and for occasionally attending the See also:parish 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 See also:Cullen, where one of his See also:friends was See also:minister, he was deprived of his See also:charge and forbidden the exercise of ecclesiastical functions within the See also:diocese. This happened in 1779; and in 178o he went with his friend See also:Lord Traquair to See also:London, where he spent the See also:rest of his See also:life. Before leaving See also:Scotland he had received the honorary degree of LL.D. from the university of See also:Aberdeen, and •had been made an honorary member of the Society of Antiquaries, in the institution of which he had taken a very active See also:part. In London Geddes soon received an See also:appointment in connexion with the See also:chapel of the imperial See also:ambassador, and was also helped by Lord See also:Petre in his See also:- SCHEME (Lat. schema, Gr. oxfjya, figure, form, from the root axe, seen in exeiv, to have, hold, to be of such shape, form, &c.)
scheme for a new Catholic version of the See also:Bible. In 1786, supported also by such scholars as See also:Benjamin See also:Kennicott and See also:Robert See also:Lowth, Geddes published a See also:Prospectus of a new See also:Translation of the See also:Holy Bible, a considerable See also:quarto See also:volume, in which the defects of previous See also:translations were fully pointed out, and the means indicated by which these might be removed. It was well received, and led to the publication in 1788 of Proposals for See also:Printing, with a specimen, and in 1790 of a See also:General See also:Answer to Queries, Counsels and Criticisms. The first volume of the translation itself, which was entitled The Holy Bible . .
faithfully translated from corrected Texts of the Originals, with various Readings, explanatory Notes and See also:critical Remarks, appeared in 1792, and was the See also:signal for a See also:storm of hostility on the part of both Catholics and Protestants. It was obvious enough—no small offence in the eyes of some—that as a critic Geddes had identified himself with C. F. Houbigant (1686-1783), Kennicott and J. D. See also:Michaelis, but others did not hesitate to stigmatize him as the would-be " corrector of the Holy See also:Ghost." Three of the vicars-apostolic almost immediately warned all the faithful against the " use and reception " of his translation, on the ostensible ground that it had not been examined and approved by due ecclesiastical authority; and by his own bishop (See also:Douglas) he was in 1793 suspended from the exercise of his orders in the London See also:district. The second volume of the translation, completing the See also:historical books, published in 1797, found no more friendly reception; but this circumstance did not discourage him from giving forth in 1800 the volume of Critical Remarks on the See also:Hebrew Scriptures, which presented in a some-what brusque manner the then novel and startling views of See also:Eichhorn and his school on the See also:primitive See also:history and See also:early records of mankind.
Geddes was engaged on a critical translation of the See also:Psalms (published in 1807) when he was seized with an illness of which he died on the 26th of See also:February 1802. Athough under ecclesiastical censures, he had never swerved from a consistent profession of faith as a Catholic; and on his See also:death-See also:bed he duly received the last See also:rites of his communion.
Besides See also:pamphlets on the Catholic and See also:slavery questions, as well as several fugitive jeux d'esprit, and a number of unsigned articles in the See also:Analytical See also:Review, Geddes also published a free metrical version of Select Satires of See also:Horace (1779), and a verbal rendering of the First See also:Book of the Iliad of See also:Homer 1792). The See also:Memoirs of his life and writings by his friend See also:John See also:- MASON, FRANCIS (1799—1874)
- MASON, GEORGE (1725—1792)
- MASON, GEORGE HEMMING (1818–1872)
- MASON, JAMES MURRAY (1798-1871)
- MASON, JOHN (1586-1635)
- MASON, JOHN YOUNG (1799-1859)
- MASON, LOWELL (1792—1872)
- MASON, SIR JOHN (1503–1566)
- MASON, SIR JOSIAH (1795-1881)
- MASON, WILLIAM (1725—1797)
Mason See also:Good appeared in 1803.
End of Article: GEDDES, ALEXANDER (1737-1802)
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