He was also considered an important musician, poet, dramatist, exegete, theologian, and logician-a polymathic personality who exercised strong influences on Indian culture.

But properly to estimate that influence, it must be remembered that 3, 000 ministers of the Gospel passed under his instruction, and that to him was accorded the rare privilege, during the course of a long life, of achieving distinction as a teacher, exegete, preacher, controversialist, ecclesiastic, and systematic theologian.

Calvin was a dogmatician ( systematic theology ), as exhibited in his Institutes of the Christian Religion, and an exegete who over time translated the Bible from the " original languages " in the form of his grand series of Commentaries on all but one of its books ( the Book of Revelation, which provided a problem to him in its metaphory, not yielding robustly to his binomial formula of letter and spirit: either literal, or figurative ).

) A famous jurist, exegete, critic, preacher and a prolific author, with works on nearly all subjects.

A moderately liberal theologian, he became best known as a New Testament critic and exegete, being the author of the Commentary on the Synoptics ( 1889 ; 3rd ed., 1901 ), the Johannine books ( 1890 ; 2nd ed., 1893 ), and the Acts of the Apostles ( 1901 ), in the series Handkommentar zum Neuen Testament.

In his necessary reliance on the mediation of concepts to tell the story, the exegete cannot aspire to the uniqueness of Abraham's condition.

The other great work of Bengel, and that on which his reputation as an exegete is mainly based, is his Gnomon Novi Testamenti, or Exegetical Annotations on the New Testament, published in 1742.

* Sayyid Qutb, a modern exegete of the Qur ' an, asserts that this surah outlines a complete system for human life based on an Islamic viewpoint.

He seems to have received the ordinary Christian scriptures ; and Origen, who treats him as a notable exegete, has preserved fragments of a commentary by him on the fourth gospel, while Clement of Alexandria quotes from him what appears to be a passage from a commentary on Luke.

Eusebius ( c. AD 263 – 339 ) ( also called Eusebius of Caesarea and Eusebius Pamphili ) was a Roman historian, exegete and Christian polemicist.

To sum up: Without being a great dogmatician like his master, nor a creative genius in the ecclesiastical realm, Beza had qualities which made him famous as humanist, exegete, orator, and leader in religious and political affairs, and qualified him to be the guide of the Calvinists in all Europe.

* Javed Ahmad Ghamidi is a well-known Pakistani Islamic scholar, exegete, and educator.

" As an exegete and biblical Critic no less than as a grammarian he has left his abiding mark.

* August 25-Nicholas Tacitus Zegers, Bible exegete ( born c. 1495 )

Since 1990, the Vălenii summer school has functioned regularly, having Iorga exegete Valeriu Râpeanu as a regular guest.

Italian exegete, philosopher, and physician ; born at Cesena about 1475 ; died at Bologna in 1550.

Berechiah ben Natronai ha-Nakdan, (" ha-Nakdan ", meaning " the punctuator " or " grammarian "), commonly known as Berachya, ( 13th century ) was a Jewish exegete, ethical writer, grammarian, translator, poet, and philosopher.

* Saadia Gaon-Ninth century rabbi, philosopher, and exegete of the Geonic period.

* Abdul Majid Daryabadi, Muslim writer and exegete of the Qur ' an ( b. 1892 ).

Tomaso Malvenda ( 1566 – 7 May 1628 ) was a Spanish Dominican exegete and historical critic.

* Yohanan Alemanno ( c. 1435 – after 1504 ), Italian Jewish humanist philosopher and exegete

Ellul was first introduced to the ideas of Karl Marx during an economics lecture course taught by Joseph Benzacar in 1929 –– 1930 ; Ellul studied Marx and became a prolific exegete of his theories.

Yefet claims full freedom for the exegete, refusing to admit any authority for the interpretation of the Law ; and, although he sometimes uses the thirteen hermeneutic rules laid down in the Mishnah, he denies their authority: they are to be applied, he claims, only when it is not possible to explain the passage literally.

Śrī Ramanuja ( traditionally 1017 – 1137, also known as Śrī Ramanujacharya, Udayavar, Ethirajar ( Yatiraja ), Emberumannar, Lakshmana Muni ) was a theologian, philosopher, and scriptural exegete.

Amin Ahsan Islahi, a renowned exegete of the Qur ' an, has mentioned that since Arabs once used such letters in their poetry, it was only appropriate for the Qur ' an to use that same style.

He is known as a Biblical exegete, and as a representative, with William Perkins and John Preston, of what has been called " main-line " Puritanism.

When her husband Otto I died in 973 he was succeeded by their son Otto II, and Adelaide for some years exercised a powerful influence at court.

They were, in fact, a survival of an ancient and venerable German institution ; and if, during a certain period, they exercised something like a reign of terror over a great part of Germany, the cause of this lay in the sickness of the times, which called for some powerful organization to combat the growing feudal anarchy.

Valentinian himself seems to have exercised no real authority, and was a figurehead for various powerful interests: his mother, his co-emperors, and powerful generals.

( Winckelmann subsequently exercised a powerful influence over Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ).

The enquiry will also ensure that " control of credit is exercised in the national interest and not in the interest of powerful financial groups " by making creditors shift entirely to cheques, and possibly by getting rid of gold reserves.

They are used for working cattle and catching hogs, and therefore their muscles are long and powerful, and must be exercised regularly.

" John Donne, whose celebrity as a court-preacher lasted until his death in 1631, exercised a powerful if not entirely healthy influence over the genius of Carew.

Aprisio grants ( the first ones were in Septimania ) emanated directly from the Carolingian king, and they reinforced central loyalties, to counterbalance the local power exercised by powerful marcher counts.

He is particularly critical of the persistence of caciquismo-the control exercised by powerful local figures over the political process in rural areas.

The miners ' unions were the largest and most powerful industrial combinations in Britain for decades, and exercised a great influence on the rest of the British labour movement.

He had early in life, as Lord Lorne, been entrusted with the possession of the Argyll estates when his father renounced Protestantism and took arms for Philip III of Spain ; and he exercised over his clan an authority almost absolute, disposing of a force of 20, 000 retainers, being, according to Baillie, by far the most powerful subject in the kingdom.

He continued to serve as MLA for Lakeside until standing down in 1969, and exercised a powerful influence over the Manitoba Liberal Party during this time.

Nevertheless, in virtue of a certain substratum of truth which seems to have underlain his new theories, Vogler undoubtedly exercised a powerful influence over the progress of musical science, and numbered among his disciples some of the greatest geniuses of the period.

The mountainous interior was occupied by the tribes known as Oenotrians and Choni, while the coasts on both sides were occupied by powerful Greek colonies which doubtless exercised a protectorate over the interior ( see Magna Graecia ).

Grundtvig, who exercised a powerful influence on the development of Danish schools.

There he made the acquaintance of Philip Wouwerman, who is believed to have aided him in his studies of animals, and to have exercised a powerful and beneficial influence upon his art.

Hungary managed to persuade Italy that the powerful German influence exercised through Czechoslovakia could be eliminated by a strong Hungary, which would support Italy.

The theatre owners found themselves at odds with the powerful Theatrical Syndicate, the New York-based organisation headed by Charles Frohman, Al Hayman, Abe Erlanger, Mark Klaw, Samuel F. Nixon and Fred Zimmerman that not only exercised a near monopoly on touring theatre in North America, but also had a financial interest in the rival Princess Theatre, two blocks east of the Royal Alexandra.

The election privilege, exercised during the gatherings know as wiec, was usually limited to the most powerful nobles ( magnates ) or officials, and was heavily influenced by local traditions and strength of the ruler.

After the fall of La Trémoille in 1433 he returned to court, and exercised a powerful influence over affairs of state almost till his death, which took place at the castle of Beaulieu ( Puy-de-Dôme ) on the 25th or 26th of November 1444.

Though this right is, in theory, quite powerful, it has not proven so in terms of its practical application — to date, no federal agency has exercised its march-in rights.

Wren exercised considerable influence in Victorian politics and business, but he was not as powerful as subsequent legend has suggested.

Meanwhile, Hussain Shah, the Nawab of Bengal, had become so powerful that he exercised his control over large tracts including Tirhut.