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See also: English See also: scholar and divine, was See also: born at Owlbury, See also: Bishop's See also: Castle, See also: Shropshire, in 1549• He was educated by See also: Bernard See also: Gilpin at Houghton-le-Spring and at Cambridge, where he became See also: fellow of St See also: John's and then of Christ's, and took orders
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Here he laid the foundation of the
See also: Hebrew scholarship for which he was afterwards so distinguished
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From Cambridge he went to See also: London, where his eloquence gained him many and powerful See also: friends
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In 1588 he published his first See also: work, " a little See also: book of See also: great pains," entitled A Concent of Scripture
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This work, dealing with biblical chronology and textual See also: criticism, was attacked at both See also: universities, and the author was obliged to defend it in a series of lectures
.
In 1589 he went to See also: Germany, where he frequently engaged in discussions both with Romanists and with the learned Jews whom he met at See also: Frankfort and elsewhere. in 1591 he returned to See also: England, but his Puritan leanings incurred the hostility of See also: Whitgift
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Accordingly in 1J92 he once more went abroad, and cultivated the acquaintance of the See also: principal scholars of See also: Europe, including Scaligeri and See also: Rabbi See also: Elias
.
Such was the esteem in which he was held, even by his opponents, that he might have had a See also: cardinal's See also: hat if he had been willing to change his faith
.
In 1599 he published his " Explication " of the article " He descended into See also: hell," is which he maintained that Hades means simply the abode of departed See also: spirits, not the place of torment
.
On the accession of See also: James he returned to England; but not being engaged to co-operate in the new
See also: translation of the See also: Bible (though he had for some years planned a similar work), he retired to Middleburg in See also: Holland, where he preached to the English
See also: congregation
.
In
1611 he returned to England, where he died on the 4th of See also: August 1612
.
Some of his See also: works were collected and published in a large folio See also: volume in 1662, with a sketch of his See also: life by John Lightfoot, but many of his theological See also: MSS. remain still unedited in the See also: British Museum
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