Blair, John (3)
Blair, John
a Presbyterian divine, brother of Samuel Blair (q.v.), was born in Ireland 1720, and emigrated in his youth to America. He studied at the “Log College,” and in 1742 was ordained pastor of three churches in Cumberland Co., Pa. In 1757 he removed to Fagg’s Manor. In 1767 he was appointed professor of divinity and vice-president of the college at Princeton. In 1769 he became pastor at Walkill, N. Y., where he remained until his death, Dec. 8,1771. He published a Treatise on Regeneration, another on Terms of Admission to the Lord’s Supper, and several sermons. Sprague, Annals, 3:118.
Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature
Blair, John (2)
a native of Edinburgh, and relative of Hugh Blair (q.v.). He removed at an early age to London, where he received some valuable preferments, and became at last prebendary of Westminster. He died in 1782. He is the author of an important work on The Chronology and History of the World from the Creation to A.D. 1753 (Lond. 1754, fol.), which has passed through a large number of editions (a recent ed. Lond. 1844, with additions and corrections by Sir H. Ellis; again, Lond. 1851), and is still considered a very valuable book. He also wrote Lectures on the Canon cf the Old Testament, published after his death (Lond. 1785), and comprehending a learned dissertation on the Septuagint version.–Allibone, Dict. of Authors, i, 202.
Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature
Blair, John (2)
a Presbyterian divine, brother of Samuel Blair (q.v.), was born in Ireland 1720, and emigrated in his youth to America. He studied at the “Log College,” and in 1742 was ordained pastor of three churches in Cumberland Co., Pa. In 1757 he removed to Fagg’s Manor. In 1767 he was appointed professor of divinity and vice-president of the college at Princeton. In 1769 he became pastor at Walkill, N. Y., where he remained until his death, Dec. 8,1771. He published a Treatise on Regeneration, another on Terms of Admission to the Lord’s Supper, and several sermons. Sprague, Annals, 3:118.
Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature
Blair, John (2) (2)
a native of Edinburgh, and relative of Hugh Blair (q.v.). He removed at an early age to London, where he received some valuable preferments, and became at last prebendary of Westminster. He died in 1782. He is the author of an important work on The Chronology and History of the World from the Creation to A.D. 1753 (Lond. 1754, fol.), which has passed through a large number of editions (a recent ed. Lond. 1844, with additions and corrections by Sir H. Ellis; again, Lond. 1851), and is still considered a very valuable book. He also wrote Lectures on the Canon cf the Old Testament, published after his death (Lond. 1785), and comprehending a learned dissertation on the Septuagint version.–Allibone, Dict. of Authors, i, 202.
Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature
Blair, John (3)
(sometimes called Arnold), a monk of the order of St. Benedict, was born in Fifeshire, Scotland, in the reign of Alexander III, and educated with Sir William Wallace at the school of Dundee. He then went to Paris, studied in the university there, and joined the order of St. Benedict. He returned to Scotland and lived in retirement until Wallace became viceroy of the kingdom, when he became his chaplain. He wrote a history of Wallace’s life, in Latin verse, about 1327. The precise date of his death is not known. See Chalmers, Biog. Dict. s.v.; Allibone, Dict. of British and American Authors, s.v.