Excerpt from The Post-Exilian Prophets: Haggai, Zechariah, Malachi; With Introductions and Notes
It is an immense help, then, to our understanding of the prophets, when we take the trouble to place them in their proper chronological order, and read them in the light of the events which called for their encouraging, warning, or fault-finding utterances. Besides, it is only thus that we can at all discern the growth of prophecy from age to age. The prophets were employed by God to carry out a plan which included the whole period from the beginning to the coming of Christ. Each new revelation adds something to that which had before been delivered. The prophets themselves, consciously or unconsciously, fell in with this plan. They were thoroughly con versant with one another's writings, and by the study of the existing prophetic literature they understood something of the lines on which prophecy travelled; so that we often find a later prophet quoting the words Of an earlier, but never going back and speaking as if at a more rudimentary stage.
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Marcus Dods was a Scottish divine and biblical scholar. He was born at Belford, Northumberland, the youngest son of Rev. Marcus Dods, minister of the Scottish church of that town.
He studied at Edinburgh Academy and Edinburgh University, graduating in 1854. Having studied theology for five years he was licensed in 1858, and in 1864 became minister of Renfield Free Church, Glasgow, where he worked for twenty-five years. In 1889 he was appointed professor of New Testament Exegesis in the New College, Edinburgh, of which he became principal on the death of Robert Rainy in 1907.
Throughout his life, both ministerial and professorial, he devoted much time to the publication of theological books. Several of his writings, especially a sermon on Inspiration delivered in 1878, incurred the charge of unorthodoxy, and shortly before his election to the Edinburgh professorship he was summoned before the General Assembly, but the charge was dropped by a large majority, and in 1891 he received the honorary degree of DD from Edinburgh University.
He edited Lange's Life of Christ in English (Edinburgh, 1864, 6 vols.), Augustine's works (1872-1876), and, with Alexander Whyte, Clark's Handbooks for Bible Classes series. In the Expositors Bible series he edited Genesis and 1 Corinthians, and he was also a contributor to the 9th edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica and James Hastings's Dictionary of the Bible.
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