Marvin Richardson Vincent (

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, 11 September 1834 – Forest Hills, New York, 18 August 1922) was a

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minister, best known for his ''Word Studies in the

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''. From 1888, he was professor of New Testament exegesis and criticism at Union Theological Seminary, New York City. Vincent graduated from

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in 1851, taught in the Columbia Grammar School, was professor of classics in the Troy Methodist University from 1858 to 1862; then acting pastor of the Pacific Street Methodist Episcopal Church in

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from 1862 to 1863; and pastor of the First Presbyterian Church of Troy, New York, from 1863 to 1873. Then at Presbyterian Church of the Covenant, a small Victorian Gothic church at 310 East 42nd Street.

Works

* '' Johann Albrecht Bengel's Gnomon of the New Testament'' (Translator), Charlton T. Lewis and Marvin R. Vincent, Philadelphia and New York, 1864. * ''Amusement A Force in Christian Training: Four Discourses'' William. H. Young, New York, 1867. * ''The Minister's Handbook Containing Forms for

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, marriage, The Lord's Supper, Burial, and the

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of Elders and

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, with Classified Selections of Scripture for the Sick Room'', Anson D. F. Randolph & Company, New York, 1882. * ''God and Bread with Other Sermons'', New York, Dodd, Mead, and Company, 1884. * ''Word Studies in the New Testament'', Charles Scribner and Sons, New York, 1887. * ''That Monster The Higher Critic'', Anson D. F. Randolph & Company, New York, 1894 * ''Age of Hildebrand'', T & T Clark, Edinburgh, 1897 * ''A History of the

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of the New Testament'', MacMillan, New York, 1899

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Vincent, Marvin Richardson American biblical scholars American Christian writers People from Poughkeepsie, New York 19th-century American Presbyterian ministers 1834 births 1922 deaths Columbia University alumni Troy University (New York) faculty Translators of Dante Alighieri