Marvin Richardson Vincent (

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, 11 September 1834 – Forest Hills, New York, 18 August 1922) was a

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minister, best known for his ''Word Studies in the

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''. From 1888, he was professor of New Testament exegesis and criticism at Union Theological Seminary, New York City. Vincent graduated from

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in 1851, taught in the

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, was professor of classics in the Troy Methodist University from 1858 to 1862; then acting pastor of the Pacific Street Methodist Episcopal Church in

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from 1862 to 1863; and pastor of the First Presbyterian Church of Troy, New York, from 1863 to 1873. Then at Presbyterian Church of the Covenant, a small Victorian Gothic church at 310 East 42nd Street.

Works

* ''

Johann Albrecht Bengel Johann Albrecht Bengel (24 June 1687 – 2 November 1752), also known as ''Bengelius'', was a Lutheran pietist clergyman and Greek-language scholar known for his edition of the Greek New Testament and his commentaries on it. Life and career Be ...

's Gnomon of the New Testament'' (Translator), Charlton T. Lewis and Marvin R. Vincent, Philadelphia and New York, 1864. * ''Amusement A Force in Christian Training: Four Discourses'' William. H. Young, New York, 1867. * ''The Minister's Handbook Containing Forms for

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, marriage, The Lord's Supper, Burial, and the

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of Elders and Deacons, with Classified Selections of Scripture for the Sick Room'', Anson D. F. Randolph & Company, New York, 1882. * ''God and Bread with Other Sermons'', New York, Dodd, Mead, and Company, 1884. * ''Word Studies in the New Testament'', Charles Scribner and Sons, New York, 1887. * ''That Monster The Higher Critic'', Anson D. F. Randolph & Company, New York, 1894 * ''Age of Hildebrand'', T & T Clark, Edinburgh, 1897 * ''A History of the

Textual Criticism Textual criticism is a branch of textual scholarship, philology, and of literary criticism that is concerned with the identification of textual variants, or different versions, of either manuscripts or of printed books. Such texts may range in ...

of the New Testament'', MacMillan, New York, 1899

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Vincent, Marvin Richardson American biblical scholars American Christian writers People from Poughkeepsie, New York 19th-century Presbyterian ministers 1834 births 1922 deaths Columbia University alumni Troy University (New York) faculty Translators of Dante Alighieri