Felbinger, Jeremias a Socinian, who was born at Brieg, in Silesia, April 27, 1616, was for some time rector at Coslin in Pomerania, and afterwards chorister at the princely school in Stettin. On account of his Socinian tendencies he had to give up his position, and went to Holland, where he died in 1687. He wrote, Demonstrationes Christiance (1653): — Die Lehre von Gott, etc. (1654): — Epistola ad Christianos unum Altissimum Deum, Patrem, etc. (1672). He also translated into German the Confessio Fidei Christ. edita Nomine Ecclesiar. quae in Polonia unum Deum, Profitentur (1653): and made a translation of the New Test. from the Greek into German (Amsterdam, 1660). See Winer, Handbuch der theol. Lit. 1:169, 333, 419; Jocher, Allgemeines Gelehrten-Lexikon, s.v. (B.P.)
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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