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Green Greenup
Seminary, first of Biblical and Oriental literature (1851-59) and later of Oriental and Old Testament literature (1859-96). He was chairman of the American Old Testament Company of the Anglo- American Bible Revision Committee, and in 1868 declined the proffered presidency of Princeton College. In Biblical criticism he was one of the leading representatives of the conservative school, and firmly impressed his individuality on the seminary. Besides editing the Song of Solomon for the American edition of the Biblical commentary of J. P. Lange (New York, 1870), he wrote A Grammar of the Hebrew Language (New York, 1861); A Hebrew Chrestomathy (1863); The Pentateuch Vindicated from the Aspersions of Bishop Colenso (1863); The Argument of the Book of Job Unfolded (1874); Moses and the Prophets (1883); The Hebrew Feasts in their Relation to Recent Critical Hypotheses concerning the Pentateuch (1885); Prophets and Prophecy (Princeton, 1888); The Old Testament Canon (1889); Higher Criticism of the Pentateuch (New York, 1895); The Unity of the Book of Genesis (1895); and the posthumous General Introduction to the Old Testament (2 vols., 1898-99).
GREENE, RICHARD GLEASON: Congregationalist; b. at East Haddam, Conn., June 29, 1829. He was educated at Yale College, but left before graduation on account of the death of his father. He received his theological training at Andover Theological Seminary (1853), becoming immediately acting pastor of the First Congregational Church, Springfield, O., after which he held successive pastorates at the Eastern Congregational Church, New York City (1854-56), Plymouth Congregational Church, Adrian, Mich. (1856-57), East Cambridge, Mass. (1858-60), First Congregational Church, Brighton, Mass. (1860-62), Bedford Congregational Church, Brooklyn, N. Y. (1862-65), Orange Valley Congregational Church, Orange, N. J. (1865-66), North Church, Springfield, Mass. (1866-74), and Trinity Church, East Orange, N. J. (1875-89). He was editor-in-chief of the Library of Universal Knowledge (15 vols., New York, 1882); the first edition of the International Encyclopedia (16 vols., 1887); and the Columbian Cyclopedia (32 vols., 1890). In theology he is an Evangelical, placing more stress on the fellowship of faith in Christ than on any similarity either of doctrinal belief or of church government. In addition to numerous reviews he has written Glimpses of the Coming (New York, 1877).
GREENE, WILLIAM BRENTON, JR.: Presbyterian; b. at Providence, R. I., Aug. 16, 1854. He was educated at the College of New Jersey (A.B., 1876) and Princeton Theological Seminary (1880). He then held successive pastorates at the First Presbyterian Church, Philadelphia, 1880-83, and at the Tenth Presbyterian Church in the same city, 1883-93. In the latter year he was appointed professor of apologetics and Christian ethics in Princeton Theological Seminary, a position which he still holds. In theology he is a strict conservative, believing firmly in the supernatural character of Christianity and the infallibility of the Bible. He has written Christian Doctrine (Philadelphia, 1905).
GREENFIELD, WILLIAM: Linguist and Biblical scholar; b. in London Apr. 1, 1799; d. there Nov. 5, 1831. He studied under two maternal uncles, business men in London, and afterward received instruction in Hebrew from a Jew in the employ of a bookbinder to whom Greenfield had been apprenticed in 1812. In 1824 he gave up business to devote himself to languages and Biblical criticism, and in 1830 he became editor of foreign versions to the British and Foreign Bible Society. During the year and a half that he was in the employ of the Society he wrote on more than twenty languages. His principal publications were: The Comprehensive Bible with a General In-
troduction Notes, etc. (London, 1827); The Poly-
micrian Greek Lexicon to the New Testament (1829; new revised ed., 1885); A Defense of the Serampore Mahratta Version of the New Testament (1830); Novi Testamenti Greed Taaelov ex opera E.
Schmidii (1830); The New Testament, Greek and Hebrew (1831); and The Pillar of Divine Truth Immoveably Fixed on the Foundation of the Apostles and the Prophets (1831), an abridgment from the Comprehensive Bible. Bibliography: DNB, xxii. 76-77.
GREENHILL, WILLIAM : English non-conformist; b. probably in Oxfordshire 1591; d. in London Sept. 27, 1671. He studied at Magdalen College, Oxford (B.A., 1609; M.A., 1612) and held the Magdalen College living of New Shoreham, Sussex, from 1615 to 1633. After officiating for a time in Norwich he removed to London and became afternoon preacher at Stepney. He was a member of the Westminster Assembly and one of the so-called "dissenting brethren." In 1644 he became the first pastor of the Congregational church at Stepney, in 1649 chaplain to the children of Charles I., in 1654 one of the commissioners for approbation of public preachers, and about the same time vicar of St. Dunstan's-in-the-East. He lost this post at the Restoration in 1660, but retained his independent pastorate at Stepney till his death. His principal works are: The Axe at the Root (London, 1643), a sermon preached before the House of Commons Apr. 16, 1643; An Exposition of the Prophet Ezekiel (5 vols., 1645-62; ed. J. Sherman, 1839), one of the most celebrated Puritan commentaries, of which the first volume was dedicated to Princess Elizabeth, daughter of Charles I.; Sermons of Christ, His Discovery of Himself (1656); and The Sound-Hearted Christian (1670).
Bibliography: J. Kennedy, in Evangelical Magazine and Missionary Chronicle, July, 1862; D. Lyson, Environs of London, vols, i., iii., 4 vols., London, 1792-96; A. a Wood, Athena: Oxonienses, ed. P. Bliss, iii. 1145, 4 vols., London, 1813-20; S. Palmer, Nonconformist's Memorial, ii. 468, 2 vols., London, 1775-78, 3 vols., 1802-03.
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GREENUP, ALBERT WILLIAM: Church of England; b. at London June 5, 1866. He was educated at St. John's College, Cambridge (B.A., 1890; M.A., 1893). He has been chaplain to the earl of Cadogan since 1893, and was rector of Alburgh, Norfolk, from 1897 to 1899, when he was appointed principal of the London College of Divinity, St. John's Hall, Highbury, becoming also Macneil pro-
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