Dods, Marcus

United Free Church of Scotland; b. at Belford (44 m. n.w. of Newcastle), Northumberland, England, Apr. 11, 1834; d. at Edinburgh, Apr., 1909. He studied at Edinburgh (M.A., 1854) and New College Edinburgh (1854-1858), and was ordained to the ministy in 1864. He was pastor of Renfield Free Church, Glasgow, until 1889, when he was appointed professor of New Testament theology in New College, Edinburgh, of which he was pricipal after 1907. He wrote The Prayer that Teaches to Pray (Edinburgh, 1863); The Epistles to the Seven Churches (London, 1865); Israel’s Iron Age (1874); Mohammed, Buddha, and Christ (1877); Handbook on Haggai, Zecharia, and Malachi (Edinburgh, 1879); Issac, Jacob, and Joseph (London, 1880); Handbook on Genesis (Edinburgh, 1882); Commentary on Thessalonians (1882); The Parables of our Lord (2 vols., London, 1884-85); The First Epistle to the Corinthians (1889); Introduction to the New Testament (1889); Erasmus, and Other Essays (1891); Why be a Christian? (1896); How to become like Christ (1897); The Gospel according to St. John (in The Expositor’s Greek Testament; 1897); Genesis, John, and I Corinthians, in The Expositor’s Bible (1888-91); Forerunners of Dante (Edinburgh, 1903); and The Bible, its Origin and Nature (Bross lectures; 1905). He also translated the "Apology" of Justin Martyr and the three books of Theophilus of Antioch to Autolycus, in Clark’s Ante-Nicene Christian Library (Edinburgh, 1865), and edited the English version of J. P. Lange’s Life of Christ (6 vols., 1864), and the writings of St. Augustine (15 vols., 1872-76).