Biblical Hermeneutics, Second Edition: A Treatise on the Interpretation of the Old and New Testaments
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This practical textbook is "the most exhaustive single work in our language on the history of the interpretation of the Scriptures" So affirms Dr. Wilbur M. Smith, well-known Bible scholar. Milton S. Terry's book on 'Biblical Hermeneutics' (the science of interpretation) is conveniently divided into three main areas: Part I - Introduction to Biblical Hermeneutics Part II - Principles of Biblical Hermeneutics Part III - History of Biblical Interpretation This ideal standard textbook abstains from dogmatism and adheres strictly to the method of scientific and conscientious inquiry. It ranks as a classic in its field. Adapted to meet the practical needs of most students studying the Word of God, 'Biblical Hermeneutics' is a model text for interpreting the Bible.
Biblical Apocalyptics: A Study Of The Most Notable Revelations Of God And Of Christ In The Canonical Scriptures
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(Excerpt from Rambles in the Old World
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His eye must see, his foot each spot must tread, Where sleeps the dust of earth's recorded dead; Where rise the monuments Of ancient time Pillar and pyramid in age sublime; The Pagan's temple, and the Churchman's tower; War's bloodiest plain, and Wisdom's greenest bower; All that his wonder woke in schoolboy themes.
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(In taking up the study of a religion which has never exte...)
In taking up the study of a religion which has never extended beyond the limits of an easily defined territory, we may appropriately first of all take a hasty glance at the geographical outlines of the system we call Shinto, the primitive faith of the people of Japan.
The Sibylline Oracles: Translated From the Greek Into English Blank Verse (Classic Reprint)
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It must be remembered that the Greek text of these books has come down to us in a very corrupt state, mutilated in a number of places, and notable for its imperfect meters. Many of the geographical and historical allusions are obscure and uncertain, and the several books contain numerous rep etitions. For the convenience of the critical reader the corresponding lines of the Greek text are indicated at the foot of each page of the translation, and in the notes refer emees are furnished to the places in the writings of the Christian fathers and other ancient authors where the Sibyl is quoted, or where similar sentiments occur. It is hoped that our Introduction and foot-notes will also supply the information which readers in general will desire; but it should be observed that there are many passages which all the learning and ingenuity of scholars have hitherto failed to make clear.
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The Miraculous Birth of Jesus Christ (Classic Reprint)
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It is easy for some to dismiss this question by the short method of authoritative dogmatism. Others have no patience with the details of critical inquiry. Multitudes of our people do not care to think at all. There are many, however, who in a matter of this profound and serious character wish for a broad and candid presentation. They do not doubt the sin cerity of the men who deny the miraculous conception, but would like to see a fair and comprehensive statement of both sides of the controversy. One may also venture to submit that, even if the historicity of the first chapters of Matthew and Luke. Be as a whole Open to suspicion, the miraculous con ception may still be shown to be credible. Our aim in this article is first to state the reasons usually alleged for doubting the historical trustworthiness of the narratives in Matthew and Luke, and to offset them by such replies and other considera tions as are entitled to equal attention. In this part of the discussion we study to abstain from anything which might be construed as partisan pleading, or as unwillingness to allow the full force of the opposite position. We shall then proceed to adduce the strong reasons outside the records of the mirac ulous birth which go to confirm the credibility of those nar ratives and to establish the faith and tradition of the Christian centuries.
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The Song of Songs: An Inspired Melodrama Analyzed, Translated, and Explained (Classic Reprint)
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The critical reader of our translation will observe at several places our disregard of the Masoretic pointing. That system was introduced when the true meaning of the Song was not understood, and pronominal suffixes are in several instances pointed as masculine where they are obviously feminine. Even in the text of the adjuration addressed directly to women (ii, 7; iii, 5; viii, the suffixes are masculine.
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Milton Spenser Terry was a Methodist clergyman and educator.
Background
Terry was born in Coeymans, New York, in 1840. He was the son of John and Eliza (McLaughlin) Terry. He was christened Milton Seaman but when he became a young man adopted Spenser as his middle name. His father was a Hicksite Quaker, mystical in temperament; his mother was of Scotch descent, practical and energetic. The son inherited the spirituality of the father and the practical common sense of the mother. He was the youngest of eleven children. Books were a luxury in the Terry home, but the Bible, Milton, and Shakespeare held first place.
Education
At fifteen, young Terry could recite whole books of Paradise Lost from memory. He was eager for an education in the schools but was hindered by lack of means from completing any course. From 1857 to 1859 he attended the New York Conference Seminary at Charlotteville, N. Y. , leaving to teach school and obtain needed funds. He planned a college course, which circumstances made impossible, and finally spent a year (1862 - 63) in the Yale Divinity School instead. Thereafter he studied day and night by himself, read assiduously, and soon attained a reputation for unusual scholarship. He acquired nine languages, ancient and modern, besides his own.
Career
He had joined the Methodist Episcopal Church at the age of eighteen and been licensed to preach on January 28, 1860. Having been admitted to the New York Conference, he was ordained deacon in 1864, and elder in 1866. During his active ministry, which lasted until 1884, he served churches in Delhi, N. Y. , Peekskill, Poughkeepsie, and New York City. From 1879 to 1883 he was presiding elder of the New York district. In 1884 he was made head of the department of Hebrew and Old Testament exegesis and professor of Christian doctrine at the Garrett Biblical Institute, Evanston, Ill. In 1887 he attended lectures at the University of Berlin under Dillmann, Weiss, Kaftan, and Pfleiderer, and there learned something of the newer approach to the Bible through the higher criticism.
With growing knowledge he revised many of the conclusions of his earlier years and then stood courageously and consistently for all he had come to believe valid and true. It was his fortune to bear the brunt of a large part of the opposition these newer views encountered in the Church to which he belonged. He had the courage of his convictions and in the days of heated controversy he always could be depended upon to represent the best scholarship of his day with calmness, clearness, and unfailing courtesy. He survived the years of stress and strain and lived to see most of the issues for which he contended in peaceful possession of the field.
His three major works, Biblical Hermeneutics (1883), Biblical Apocalyptics (1898), and Biblical Dogmatics (1907), established his reputation as a sound and progressive thinker and some of his lesser works, notably Moses and the Prophets (1901) and Primer of Christian Doctrine (1906), were read more widely and created more commotion in the church than the larger books. Other writings include three volumes in D. D. Whedon's Commentary on the Old Testament, as well as The Sibylline Oracles (1890), The Prophecies of Daniel Expounded (1893), The Song of Songs Analyzed (1893), Rambles in the Old World (1894), The New Apologetic (1897), The New and Living Way (1902), The Mediation of Jesus Christ (1903), Baccalaureate Sermons and Addresses (1914). He also contributed many articles to theological magazines. He was a delegate to three General Conferences of the Methodist Episcopal Church (1880, 1896, 1904), and to two Methodist Ecumenical Conferences (1891, 1911).
While sojourning in California with his wife in 1914, he preached one Sunday night on Jacob's vision of the ladder reaching to heaven and of the angels ascending and descending upon it and, returning to his home in Los Angeles, he died on Monday morning with little warning or pain.
Achievements
He was a recognized authority in the theological field.
