Monday, December 1, 2014

1 December 1791 A.D. Albert Barnes Born—(New School) Pastor of 1st Presbyterian, Philadelphia


1 December 1791 A.D. Albert Barnes Born—(New School) Pastor of 1st Presbyterian, Philadelphia


Albert Barnes (1791 to 1870)

Presbyterian

27 volumes in 19 years.


Albert Barnes was born in Rome, N.Y. Becoming a Presbyterian at age 24, he pastored a church in Morristown, N.J., and then began a 40-year ministry at the First Presbyterian Church of Philadelphia. In 1823 he began his work on the 11 -volume, Notes on the New Testament which took him 19 years to complete. The completed Notes, a 27-volume set, sold over a million copies.

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