(Excerpt from The Book of Malachi: Expounded
The contribu...)
Excerpt from The Book of Malachi: Expounded
The contributors. To this volume were directed carefully to consult the entire ancient and modern literature on the Minor Prophets and to enrich it with the latest results of German and anglo-american scholarship.
The remaining parts of the Old Testament are all under way, and will be published as fast as the nature of the work will permit.
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Joseph Packard was an American clergyman and Biblical scholar.
Background
Joseph Packard was born on December 23, 1812 in Wiscasset, Maine, United States. He was the son of Hezekiah and Mary (Spring) Packard, and a descendant of Samuel Packard who emigrated from England to Hingham, Massachussets, in 1638, later moving to Bridgewater. His father enlisted in the Revolutionary army at the age of thirteen, later graduated at Harvard, and was a minister and teacher. His father saw General Washington take command of the army under the elm at Cambridge, his father-in-law commanded the militia of the District of Columbia against the British in 1814, while he himself was acquainted with Generals Lee and Jackson, and lost two sons in the Confederate Army. Joseph's home life was, therefore, that of a New England country minister's household, very simple, but strongly influenced by religion and learning.
Education
Joseph Packard began the study of Latin and Greek at an early age with his father. At the age of twelve Joseph went to Phillips Academy, Andover. At fourteen taught Greek and Latin in his father's school. At the age of fifteen entered Bowdoin College, where his brother, Alpheus Spring Packard, 1798-1884 was professor of Latin and Greek and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was his French professor. He graduated in 1831, salutatorian of his class, delivering the address in Latin. In 1833 he entered Andover Seminary.
Career
Joseph Packard taught for several years and was in charge of Brattleboro Academy, Vermont. In 1834 he became professor of Latin, Hebrew, and other branches in Bristol College, and two years later was elected professor of sacred literature in the Theological Seminary in Virginia, where he spent the rest of his life. Joseph was a member of the faculty of Virginia Theological Seminary. He was ordained deacon by Bishop Griswold, July 17, 1836, and priest by Bishop Meade, September 29, 1837.
He served for twelve years on the American Committee for the Revision of the Bible, published several articles in the Bibliotheca Sacra, and edited "The Book of Malachi" (1874) in J. P. Lange's Commentary on the Holy Scriptures. In 1874 he became dean of the Seminary and held this position until he retired in 1895. He continued to live at the Seminary until his death.
Achievements
Joseph Packard was best known for his service on the American Committee for the Revision of the Bible for twelve years. He was remarkable, also, for his great length of service as a professor in Theological Seminary, through which he influenced upon the religious life of America.
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Religion
Joseph Packard was a member of the Episcopal Church, to which he had been attracted by "its liturgy and its ways. " He valued highly the historic episcopate, the right of the laity to representation in church councils, the custom of common worship, and the sacraments, and remained during his long life a stanch and devoted churchman of the evangelical school.
Personality
Joseph Packard was an honest, accurate, and thoroughly trained scholar with a fine simplicity of character, singleness of purpose, good judgment, practical wisdom, and unfailing sympathy.
Connections
On January 1838, Joseph Packard married Rosina Jones, daughter of Walter Jones and grand-niece of "Light-Horse Harry" Lee. They had eleven children.
