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JOHN EADIE (1810-1876)

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Originally appearing in Volume V08, Page 789 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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JOHN See also:EADIE (1810-1876)  , Scottish theologian and biblical critic, was See also:born at See also:Alva, in See also:Stirlingshire, on the 9th of May 181o . 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 See also:union a few years later with the See also:Relief Church, adopted the See also:title See also:United Presbyterian . In 1835 he became See also:minister of the See also:Cambridge See also:Street Secession church in Glasgow, and for many years he was generally regarded as the leading representative of his See also:denomination in Glasgow . As a preacher, though he was not eloquent, he was distinguished by See also:good sense, earnestness and breadth of sympathy . In 1863 he removed with a portion of his See also:congregation to a new church at See also:Lansdowne See also:Crescent . In 1843 See also:Eadie was appointed See also:professor of biblical literature and See also:hermeneutics in the Divinity Hall of the United Presbyterian body . He held this See also:appointment along with his ministerial See also:charge till the See also: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 See also:chair, as in the See also: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 . He received the degree of LL.D. from Glasgow in 1844, and that of D.D. from St See also:Andrews in 185o . His publications were connected with biblical criticism and See also: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 See also:Concordance, his See also: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 See also: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 .

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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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