a Swiss divine of the Reformed Church, was born at Geneva in January, 1701. In 1728 he became pastor of the French congregation at the Hague; and he remained in that charge until his death, October, 1785. He translated, from the English of Stackhouse, Le Sens litteral de l’Ecriture Sainte (La Haye, 1738, 3 vols. 8vo); and also published a commentary on the Bible (La Sainte Bible avec un Comment. litteral, et des Notes chtisies et tirees de divers auteurs Anglais, 6 vols. 8vo; La Haye, 1742-77; a seventh volume was issued after his death by Dr. Maclaine, with preliminary dissertations, 1790); a work on Biblical Theology (Theol. de l’Ecriture Sainte, ou la Science du Salut, 2 vols. 8vo, 1752); Catechisme historique et dogmatique (La Haye, 1755, 8vo); and numerous minor works. Senebier, Histoire Litt. de Genve; Hoefer, Nouv. Biog. Generale, 9:556.<\/p>\n
Chais, Charles-Pierre a Swiss divine of the Reformed Church, was born at Geneva in January, 1701. In 1728 he became pastor of the French congregation at the Hague; and he remained in that charge until his death, October, 1785. He translated, from the English of Stackhouse, Le Sens litteral de l’Ecriture Sainte (La Haye, 1738, … Continue reading “Chais, Charles-Pierre”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-encyclopedic-dictionary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33959"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33959\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}