Life and Letters of Fenton John Anthony Hort

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1896 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER IX CAMBRIDGE: HULSEAN PROFESSOR 1878-1887. Age 50-59. IN 1878, when Dr. J. J. S. Perowne became Dean of Peterborough, Hort was elected to succeed him in the Hulsean Professorship of Divinity. His election made little change in the character of his work. He continued to lecture as professor on the same and similar subjects as before. He gave further courses on the Epistle of St. James, and on the Apocalypse, chaps, i.-iii., and lectured several times on the First Epistle of St. Peter. The last-named lectures and those on St. James were contributions towards commentaries on those epistles, which were long expected and never completed. Work on them had begun years before at St. Ippolyts; these editions were to be at least an instalment of his share in the joint commentary long since projected between him, Lightfoot, and Dr. Westcott (see vol. i. p. 372). As such, he regarded the completion of them as a sacred duty, though eventually he was never able to satisfy himself with the results of many years of study and lecturing. The materials were accumulated and a good deal written, at least tentatively. Vacations were largely taken up with the preparation of fresh lectures, and also with necessary recruiting of health, while term-time was crowded with syndicates and other exacting College and University business. Just after his death appeared Dr. J. B. Mayor's edition of St. James, dedicated to Hort, with a reference which came pathetically enough at that time to the "lectoribus . . . splendidioretn lucent editionis Hortianae jamdudum desiderantibus." Other subjects of his lectures as Hulsean Professor were Cyril of Jerusalem, iii. iv. v., Tatian, the Clementine Recognitions, Tertullian adv. Marcionem iv. v., the Epistle to the Romans...