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See also: born at Alva, in See also: Stirlingshire, on the 9th of May 181o
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Having taken the arts curriculum at See also: Glasgow University, he studied for the See also: ministry at the Divinity See also: Hall of the
See also: Secession See also: Church, a dissenting
See also: body which, on its union a few years later with the See also: Relief Church, adopted the title See also: United Presbyterian
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In 1835 he became See also: minister of the Cambridge Street Secession church in Glasgow, and for many years he was generally regarded as the leading representative of his denomination in Glasgow
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As a preacher, though he was not eloquent, he was distinguished by See also: good sense, earnestness and breadth of sympathy
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In 1863 he removed with a portion of his See also: congregation to a new church at Lansdowne See also: Crescent
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In 1843 See also: Eadie was appointed professor of biblical literature and hermeneutics in the Divinity Hall of the United Presbyterian body
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He held this See also: appointment along with his ministerial See also: charge till the close of his See also: life
.
Though not a profound See also: scholar, he was surpassed by few biblical commentators of his See also: day in range of learning, and in soundness of See also: judgment
.
In the professor's chair, as in the pulpit, his strength See also: lay in the tact with which he selected the soundest results of biblical See also: criticism, whether his own or that of others, and presented them in a clear and connected See also: form,-with a colistant view789
to their See also: practical bearing
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He received the degree of LL.D. from Glasgow in 1844, and that of D.D. from St Andrews in 185o
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His publications were connected with biblical criticism and interpretation, some of them being for popular use and others more strictly scientific
.
To the former class belong the Biblical Cyclopaedia, his edition of See also: Cruden's Concordance, his Early See also: Oriental See also: History, and his discourses on the Divine Love and on See also: Paul the Preacher; to the latter his commentaries on the See also: Greek text of St Paul's epistles to the See also: Ephesians, See also: Colossians, See also: Philippians and See also: Galatians, published at intervals in four volumes
.
His last See also: work was the History of the See also: English See also: Bible (2 vols., 1876)
.
He rendered good service as one of the revisers of the authorized version
.
He died at Glasgow on the 3rd of See also: June 1876
.
His valuable library was bought and presented to the United Presbyterian See also: College
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