a Church of England divine, was born at Nettlestead, Suffolk, Jan. 3, 1560. He was so precocious that at five years old he could read the Bible in Hebrew. At fourteen he entered St. John's, Cambridge, of which college he became fellow and studied medicine. Fancying himself to have every disease he read of, he quitted medicine for theology, and in 1583 was ordained priest, becoming some time afterward rector of Boxworth. When the new translation of the Holy Bible was resolved on, under King James I, Bois was fixed upon to undertake the Apocrypha, which he completed, together with the portion assigned to some other party whose name is not known. He assisted Sir H. Savile largely in his edition of Chrysostom, and in 1615 was presented by Bishop Andrewes with a stall in Ely Cathedral, which he held till his death, Jan. 14, 1643. He left many MSS., but his only published work was Veterun In. terpretatio cum Beza aliisque recent. collatio (London, 1655, 8vo), a vindication of the Vulgate version of the New Testament.-Hook, Eccles. Biography, ii, 26.
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John McClintock was born October 27, 1814 in Philadelphia to Irish immigrants, John and Martha McClintock. He began as a clerk in his father's store, and then became a bookkeeper in the Methodist Book Concern in New York. Here he converted to Methodism and considered joining the ministry. McClintock entered the University of Pennsylvania in 1832 and graduated with high honors three years later. Subsequently, he was awarded a doctorate of divinity degree from the same institution in 1848.WikipediaRead More