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An ordained minister in the Presbyterian church, John J. Owen (1803–1869) taught as a professor of classical languages in the Free Academy, New York, until he was made vice-principal of that institution in 1853, in which capacity he served until his death. An eminent classicist, Owen’s translations of Greek works were highly acclaimed and his biblical commentaries were well received. When this...

preëminent need of aid from on high, to resist the temptations of this dark and dreadful hour. What could prevent them from unbelief and open, irreclaimable apostasy, when they saw him bound and led away by his enemies, and all their hopes of the establishment of his Messianic kingdom dashed to the ground? Nothing short of the protecting grace of God in answer to fervent, wrestling prayer could avert this. The injunction then to pray was addressed to all, the danger from which deliverance was to
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