Jalaguier, Prosper Frederic a French Protestant theologian, was born August 21, 1795. Having acted as pastor at several places, Jalaguier was called in 1833 to Montauban, to fill temporarily the chair of Christian ethics. Two years later he was appointed professor of dogmatics, and occupied this office till his death at Montauban, March 22, 1864. He published, Le Temoignage de Dieu (1851): — Authenticite du Nouveau Testament (eod.): — Inspiration du Nouveau Testament (eod.): — Simple Expose de la Question Chretienne (1852): — Du Principe Chretien et du Catholicisme, du Rationalisme et du Protestantisme (1855): — Une Vue de la Question Scripteraire (1863). In these works he defended with great firmness the reality of a supernatural revelation and the religious authority of the Scripture, against the writers of the Revue de Strasbourg. See Lichtenberger, Encyclop. des Sciences Religienses, 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