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He was born in Dublin, Ireland, the son of Richard Trench, barrister-at-law, and the Dublin writer Melesina Chenevix.
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Excerpt from Studies in the Gospels If I am right in affirming it to be so, is this in any way strange. For while there must be deep things everywhere in Scripture, things past man's finding out, else it were no revelation, surely it is nothing surprising that the Son of God, who moved in all worlds as in regions familiar to Him, who was not the illuminated, but the Illuminator. 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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(PEELIMINAEY ESSAY. CHAPTER I. O.Y THE NAMES OF THE MIRACL...)
PEELIMINAEY ESSAY. CHAPTER I. O.Y THE NAMES OF THE MIRACLES. Every inquiry about a thing will best begin with an investigation of tho narao or names which it bears ; for the nani6 seizes and presents the most distinctive features, tho innermost nature of tho thing which Ave desire to understand, ami embodies this in a word. In tho name we have a witness to that which the universal sense of men, finding its utterance in language, has felt about the thing ; and if we would know one, wo must start with seeking to know also tho other. It is true that in tho investigation on which we aro now entering, thcro is not ono name only, but many, which present themselves for our study; for it results from what just has been said, that where we treat of a matter in many ways significant, its names also will bo many, seeing that no one will exhaust all its meaning. Each will embody some essential qualities of the thing; and not from tho contemplation exclusively of any ono, hut only of all of these Table of Contents CONTENTS; -i -; PRELIMINARY ESSAY; rHAJTtn rAOM; I On ini Names of tiik Miracles 1; II MIRACLES and NATTtRF 0; III The AcTflORiTT or Miracles 21; IV The Evanoelical, compared with other Cycles or; Miracles 37; v Tub Assaults on the Miracles 02; vi The Aj>olooetio Worth or the Miraoles 93; MIRACLES; 1 The Cbanoino or the Water into Wine 103; 2 Tue Oeaxiso or the Nobleman's Son 126; 3 The First Miraculous Dratjoht or Fishes 131; 4 The Stillino or the Tempest 152; 6 The Demoniacs in the Country of toe Gadarenks 161; 6 The IUisino or Jairub* Daoohter 191; 7 The Hkaltno or the Woman with an Issue or Blood 202; 8 The Opening or the Eyes or two Blind in the House 210; 9 Tue Healing or the Pajulttio 214; 10 The Cleansing or tde Lepeb 22C; 11 The Hkalino or the Centurion's Servant 238; 12 The Demoniac
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(THIS VOLUME, not any longer a little one, has grown out o...)
THIS VOLUME, not any longer a little one, has grown out of a course of lectures on the Synonyms of the New Testament, which, in the fulfilment of my duties as Professor of Divinity at Kings College, London, I more than once addressed to the theological students there. The long, patient, and exact studies in language of our great Schools and Universities, which form so invaluable a portion of their mental, and of their moral discipline as well, could find no place during the two years or two years and a half of the theological course at Kings College. The time itself was too short to allow this, and it was in great part claimed by more pressing studies. Yet, feeling the immense value of these studies, and how unwise it would be, because we could not have all which we would desire, to forego what was possible and within our reach, I two or three times dedicated a course of lectures to the comparative value of words in the New Testamentand these lectures, with many subsequent additions and some defalcations, have supplied the materials of the present volume. I have never doubted that (setting aside those higher and more solemn lessons, which in a great measure are out of our reach to impart, being taught rather by God than men), there are few things which a theological teacher should have more at heart than to awaken in his scholars an enthusiasm for the grammar and the lexicon.
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(Richard Chenevix Trench (1807 1886) was an Anglican arc...)
Richard Chenevix Trench (1807 1886) was an Anglican archbishop, poet, and writer. "This volume is not, as a glance at any page will show, a translation of St. Augustines Commentary on the Sermon on the Mount," he explains, "but an attempt to draw from the whole circle of his writings (that one of course included), what of most valuable he has contributed for the elucidation, or for the turning to practical uses, of this portion of Holy Scripture." This book contains the following chapters: Preface Augustine as an Interpreter of Scripture I. Augustines General Views of Scripture and its Interpretation II. The External Helps for the Interpretation of Scripture Possessed by Augustine III. Augustines Principles and Canons of Interpretation IV. Augustines Allegorical Interpretation of Scripture V. Illustrations of Augustines Skill as an Interpreter of Scripture VI. Augustine on John the Baptist, and on St. Stephen VII. Augustine on the Epistle to the Romans VIII. Miscellaneous Examples of Augustines Interpretation of Scripture Augustines Exposition of the Sermon on the Mount St. Matthew, Chap. V. St. Matthew, Chap. VI. St. Matthew, Chap. VII.
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(Saint Justin, also known as Justin Martyr (Greek: ???????...)
Saint Justin, also known as Justin Martyr (Greek: ????????? ? ????????, Latin: Iustinus Martyr) was an early Christian apologist, and is regarded as the foremost interpreter of the theory of the Logos in the 2nd century.2 He was martyred, alongside some of his students, and is considered a saint by the Roman Catholic Church,3 the Anglican Church,4 the Eastern Orthodox Church,5 and the Oriental Orthodox Churches. Most of his works are lost, but two apologies and a dialogue did survive. The First Apology, his most well known text, passionately defends the morality of the Christian life, and provides various ethical and philosophical arguments to convince the Roman emperor, Antoninus, to abandon the persecution of the fledgling sect. Further, he also indicates, as St Augustine did regarding the "true religion" that predated Christianity,6 that the "seeds of Christianity" (manifestations of the Logos acting in history) actually predated Christ's incarnation. This notion allows him to claim many historical Greek philosophers (including Socrates and Plato), in whose works he was well studied, as unknowing Christians.
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(On Some Deficiencies in Our English Dictionaries: Being t...)
On Some Deficiencies in Our English Dictionaries: Being the Substance of Two Papers Read before the Philological Society, Nov. 5, and Nov. 19, 1857. Richard Chenevix Trench (1807-1886), later Archbishop of Dublin was a celebrated philologist and New Testament commentator. In these two papers, Trench issues a number of concise criticisms of English dictionaries with numerous quaint and interesting examples of obsolete and overlooked words. These papers were significant in the field of lexicography or dictionary-making and were the seed behind the beginning of the Oxford English Dictionary. This Kindle edition includes linked footnotes.
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(Richard Chenevix Trench (1807-1886) was a celebrated poet...)
Richard Chenevix Trench (1807-1886) was a celebrated poet, preacher, philologist and New Testament commentator. He was Archbishop of Dublin in the Church of Ireland from 1864 to 1884. The sermons presented here were originally preached at Cambridge in May 1867.
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He was born in Dublin, Ireland, the son of Richard Trench, barrister-at-law, and the Dublin writer Melesina Chenevix.
He went to school at Harrow, and graduated from Trinity College, Cambridge in 1829.
In 1830 he visited Spain. While incumbent of Curdridge Chapel near Bishop's Waltham in Hampshire, he published The Story of Justin Martyr and Other Poems, which was favourably received, and was followed in 1838 by Sabbation, Honor Neale, and other Poems, and in 1842 by Poems from Eastern Sources. These volumes revealed the author as the most gifted of the immediate disciples of Wordsworth, with a warmer colouring and more pronounced ecclesiastical sympathies than the master, and strong affinities to Alfred Lord Tennyson, John Keble and Richard Monckton Milnes.
In 1841 he resigned his living to become curate to Samuel Wilberforce, then rector of Alverstoke, and upon Wilberforce's promotion to the deanery of Westminster Abbey in 1845 he was presented to the rectory of Itchenstoke. In 1845 and 1846 he preached the Hulsean lecture, and in the former year was made examining chaplain to Wilberforce, now Bishop of Oxford. He was shortly afterwards appointed to a theological chair at King's College London.
In 1851 he established his fame as a philologist by The Study of Words, originally delivered as lectures to the pupils of the Diocesan Training School, Winchester. His stated purpose was to demonstrate that in words, even taken singly, "there are boundless stores of moral and historic truth, and no less of passion and imagination laid up" - an argument which he supported by a number of apposite illustrations. It was followed by two little volumes of similar character - English Past and Present (1855) and A Select Glossary of English Words (1859). All have gone through numerous editions and have contributed much to promote the historical study of the English tongue. Another great service to English philology was rendered by his paper, read before the Philological Society, On some Deficiencies in our English Dictionaries (1857), which gave the first impulse to the great Oxford English Dictionary. His advocacy of a revised translation of the New Testament (1858) helped promote another great national project. In 1856 he published a valuable essay on Calderón, with a translation of a portion of Life is a Dream in the original metre. In 1841 he had published his Notes on the Parables of our Lord, and in 1846 his Notes on the Miracles, popular works which are treasuries of erudite and acute illustration.
In 1856 Trench became Dean of Westminster Abbey, a position which suited him. Here he introduced evening nave services. In January 1864 he was advanced to the post of Archbishop of Dublin. Arthur Penrhyn Stanley had been first choice, but was rejected by the Irish Church, and, according to Bishop Wilberforce's correspondence, Trench's appointment was favoured neither by the prime minister nor the lord-lieutenant. It was, moreover, unpopular in Ireland, and a blow to English literature; yet it turned out to be fortunate. Trench could not prevent the disestablishment of the Irish Church, though he resisted with dignity. But, when the disestablished communion had to be reconstituted under the greatest difficulties, it was important that the occupant of his position should be a man of a liberal and genial spirit.
This was the work of the remainder of Trench's life; it exposed him at times to considerable abuse, but he came to be appreciated, and, when in November 1884 he resigned his archbishopric because of poor health, clergy and laity unanimously recorded their sense of his "wisdom, learning, diligence, and munificence. " He had found time for Lectures on Medieval Church History (1878); his poetical works were rearranged and collected in two volumes (last edition, 1885). He died in London, after a lingering illness.
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(Saint Justin, also known as Justin Martyr (Greek: ???????...)
(On Some Deficiencies in Our English Dictionaries: Being t...)
(Richard Chenevix Trench (1807-1886) was a celebrated poet...)
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(Richard Chenevix Trench (1807 1886) was an Anglican arc...)
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Trench joined the Canterbury Association on 27 March 1848, on the same day as Samuel Wilberforce and Wilberforce's brother Robert.
Quotes from others about the person
George William Erskine Russell described Trench as "a man of singularly vague and dreamy habits" and recounted the following anecdote of his old age: "He once went back to pay a visit to his successor, Lord Plunket. Finding himself back again in his old palace, sitting at his old dinner-table, and gazing across it at his wife, he lapsed in memory to the days when he was master of the house, and gently remarked to Mrs Trench, "I am afraid, my love, that we must put this cook down among our failures".
Richard Chenevix Trench married his cousin, Frances Mary Trench, daughter of Francis Trench and Mary Mason, and sister of the 2nd Lord Ashtown, on 1 June 1832. They had 14 children; 8 sons and 6 daughters.