Walter Frederic Adeney (14 March 1849 – 1 September 1920) was an English Congregationalist minister,

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, and

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. Born in

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in 1849, he was educated at New College and

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. He served as a minister in

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from 1872 to 1889 and became a lecturer in

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and

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at New College, London, in 1887. He was promoted to a professorship in New Testament

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and

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at New College in 1889, before moving to become Principal of

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in Manchester in 1903. In addition to the numerous works he wrote on the Bible, for both academic and popular audiences, Adeney was general editor of the ''Century Bible Commentary'', and in 1908 he published an extensive history of

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, ''The Greek and Eastern Churches''. He retired in 1913, and died in

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on 1 September 1920.

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