The Earlier Prophecies of Isaiah: 1100 (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Alexander, Joseph Addison

9781331891826: The Earlier Prophecies of Isaiah: 1100 (Classic Reprint)

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ISBN 10: 1331891825 ISBN 13: 9781331891826

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I have still kept steadily in view, as my immediate readers, to whose wants the work must be adapted, clergymen and students of theology con sidered as the actual or future teachers of the church. Through them I may perhaps indulge the hope of doing something to promote correct Opinions and a taste for exegetical pursuits, as means of intellectual and spiritual culture, even though this should prove to be my last as well as first contribution to the stores of sacred learning.

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Dr Joseph Addison Alexander, the able and learned author of this Commentary, the great work of his life, died at Princeton, New Jersey, on the 20th January 1860, having been born at Philadelphia in April 1809. The unexpected death of one so eminent and useful, produced a profound sensation throughout the American States. "Devout men carried him to his burial, and made great lamentation over him." As the son of an accomplished father, the Rev. Dr Archibald Alexander, Joseph Addison enjoyed the best of intellectual and spiritual training. His scholarship was precociously developed, for, at fourteen years of age, he had read through the Koran in the original Arabic. The other oriental tongues he mastered at a very early period; and he also acquired, in the course of his Academic curriculum, a profound acquaintance with the classical languages, and an intimate familiarity with most of the modern tongues of Europe. On the very day before his death, he enjoyed his usual portion of Scripture in the six languages in which it had been his daily habit to read it. He was, in 1835, chosen by the General Assembly Associate Professor of Oriental and Biblical Literature in the Theological Seminary at Princeton, and he had already been, for some years, Assistant Professor of Ancient Languages in the College of New Jersey. In 1851, he was transferred to the chair of Biblical and Ecclesiastical History, and in 1859 his Professorate received the title of the chair of Hellenistic and New Testament literature. We need not say that Dr Alexander nobly and successfully discharged the duties of his office - infecting the students with his own enthusiasm, and setting before them, in his prelections, a model of clear and manly statement, and of industrious and learned research. He was a preacher, too, of no common stamp, and his sermons published since his death give proof of his clearness, eloquence, and power, in applying as well as in expounding evangelical truth. His expositions of the Psalms, Mark, Acts, and a portion of Matthew (this last labour being interrupted by his death), are specimens of lucid, sound, and popular commentary. His colleague Dr Hodge, in an address to the General Assembly in 1860, justly said of him, "I regard Dr Joseph Addison Alexander as incomparably the greatest man I ever knew, - as incomparably the greatest man our church has ever produced."

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This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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