Scheid, Balthasar a Lutheran theologian of Germany, was born at Strasburg in 1614, and died there November 26, 1670, doctor of theology and professor of Oriental languages. He wrote, Jonas Propheta Philol. Commentar. Expositus (Strasburg, 1665): — Novum Testamentum ex Talmude et Antiquitatibus Hebraeorum Illustratum (ed. by J. Chr. Meuschen, Leipsicj 1736):— Epistola Pauli ad Titum et Philemon. Syr. Adjuncto Versione (1668). See Winer, Handbuch der theol. Lit. 1:55, 227, 239; Furst, Bibl. Jud. s.v.; 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