Education
Blayney was educated at Oxford, took a master"s degree in 1735, and became fellow and vice-principal of Hertford College in 1768.
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Excerpt from Zechariah; A New Translation: With Notes Critical, Philological, and Explanatory; And an Appendix, in Reply to Dr. Eveleigh's Sermon on Zechariah II. 8-11 T H E Author of the following Diflertation hath heen encouraged! Hy tho/e, of who/e judgment he hath afar hetter opinion than he hath of hi: own, to juhmit to the puhlic hi: attempt toward: the explication of a prophecy, which hath long heen looked upon a: very oh/eure and interefl ing; hut thi: he could not prevail upon him/e! To do, without making known at the fame time how hi: thought: came to he turned in fltch a new and particular direction, and of what imam he hath availed himfe'lf in the further pro/ecution g hi: inguiry.-my 'very learned and re/pefiahle friend, and predec'eflor in thi: College, now Bifhop of dro more, * to whom at hi: reguefl I had jent an extrafi of the eight lafl *verfi: of the Ninth chapter of Daniel, from the ancient 'verflon of the Seventy, lately di/zovered and puhli/hed at Rome, mo/t' ohlzgingly returned hi: acknowledgment: with the following ingenian: remark: . The num her: which in thi: 'verflon are found diflerent from tho/e in the common text, he think:, may he thu: accounted for. Seventy week: add flqien week: are 5 3 9 year: . Now Cyrm': decree according to all the Chronologer: wa: iflzed 5 36' year: hefire Chrifl and we reckon hy hehdomad: of year:, we cannot come nearer to Chrfi': hirth. Add to the flxty two year: mentioned 'ver. 26 and 27. In thi: Greek verflon. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com 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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Blayney was educated at Oxford, took a master"s degree in 1735, and became fellow and vice-principal of Hertford College in 1768.
He was employed by the Clarendon Press to prepare a corrected edition of the Authorized Version of the Bible. This appeared in 1769, but most of it was destroyed by fire in the Bible warehouse, Paternoster Row, London. Blayney then studied Hebrew.
He received the degree of Doctor of Divinity, was appointed regius professor of Hebrew in 1787, and was made canon of Christ Church, Oxford.
On 20 September 1801, he died at his rectory of Poulshot, Wiltshire.
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