Cox, Samuel

English Baptist; b. in London Apr. 19, 1826; d. at Hastings Mar. 27, 1893. He was graduated at the Stepney Baptist Theological Colleg, London, 1851, and was ordained pastor of St. Paul’s Square Baptist Church, Southsea; became pastor at Ryde, Isle of Wight, 1855; resigned because of throat trouble 1859; was pastor of the General Baptist Church, Mansfield Road, Nottingham, 1863-88. He was president of the British General Baptist Association in 1873. He is best known in connection with the Expositor, which he founded in 1875 and edited till 1884; some of the volumes are almost entirely his work. According to his own statement, he wrote thirty independent books and edited twenty more, including The Quest of the Chief Good: Expository Lectures on the Book Ecclesiastes, with a New Translation (London 1868; rewritten for the Expositor’s Bible, 1890); The Private Letters of St. Paul and St. John (1867); Salvator Mundi ; or, is Christ the Saviour of all Men? A defense of restorationism, the best known of his books (1877); Expository Essays and Discourses (1877); Commentary on the Book of Job (1880); The Larger Hope, a sequel to Salvator Mundi (1883); Miracles, an Argument and a Challenge (1884); Expositions (4 vols., 1885-88); and The Hebrew Twins, a Vindication of God’s Ways with Jacob and Esau (1894) with a Memoir by his wife.