The Great Commission of Jesus Christ to His Twelve Apostles: Briefly Defined and Illustrated

by Robert H. Milligan

Publisher:

J. B. Morton & Co.

, 1873

Overview

The Great Commission of Jesus Christ to His Twelve Apostles offers in-depth analysis of what Christ meant when he said in Matthew "Go ye therefore, and make disciples of all the nations." About the Author Robert Milligan was born in Tyrone, a county of the most northern province of Ireland, July 25, 1814. In 1818 he was brought to the United States by his parents who settled in Trumbull County Ohio. An injury to his chest, which he received while helping to clear a field of his father's farm, turned his thoughts toward a professional life. In 1831 he entered Zelienople Academy in Pennsylvania and in 1833, a classical academy in the same state. As one of nine children of parents in moderate circumstances, he had to begin life for himself before he had completed his collegiate training, accordingly, in 1837, he opened a classical arts school at Flat Rock in Kentucky. When he was twenty-one years of age he had become a member of the Reformed Presbyterian Church, in which his father was a ruling elder. After a careful study that he made, during his stay at Flat Rock, of the New Testament in the original Greek, he concluded that he was a member of a church not authorized in the word of God. So, on March 11, 1838, he was immersed by Elder John Irvin of the Church of Christ in Cane Ridge. After two years at Flat Rock he was determined to resume his education at Yale. On his way to New Jersey, he stopped at Washington, Pennsylvania, to visit friends. A small group of disciples persuaded him to stay and teach them. He stayed, and entered Washington College receiving his B.A. degree at the age of twenty-six. He was at once promoted from the tutorship, which he had held in the college before his graduation, to the professorship of the English language and literature. In this chair, which he filled for nearly ten years, he cultivated a careful acquaintance with the masterpieces of English literature, and during a part of that time he gave instruction in Greek and Latin classics also. In 1843, Professor Milligan received from his alma mater the degree of master of arts, and in 1849 or 1850 he was transferred to the department of chemistry and natural history. When in 1852 the College was placed under the control of the Presbyterian Synod of Wheeling, thus more strictly denominational, Milligan resigned. Invited at once to Bloomington, Indiana, he had first the chair of mathematics, and then that of chemistry, natural philosophy and astronomy, in Indiana University. He declined he degree of doctor of divinity, which was tendered to him by the University. Resigning his professorship at Bloomington, because of the ill health of his son, he accepted, in 1854, the chair of mathematics and astronomy in Bethany College, in what was then a part of Virginia. Besides the duties of his professorship, he discharged those of an elder of the church at Bethany, and for three years, beginning with 1857, he was a co-editor of the Millennial Harbinger. During these years Bacon College at Harrodsburg, Kentucky, had closed its doors because of financial problems. An alumnus was able to raise $200,000 to aid in reopening the school. It was rechartered as Kentucky University. In 1859, Milligan returned to Kentucky and assumed the presidency of Kentucky University. The University remained in Harrodsburg until the summer of 1865, when most of the buildings were destroyed by fire. A new location was found, and the University was removed to Lexington, Kentucky. After moving to Lexington during that year, Robert Milligan resigned as president of Kentucky University and became president of the College of the Bible. Milligan held this position until his death. To his assiduous work in colleges and universities he added the labor of preaching often, sometimes regularly, for churches in or near the towns of his residence. He had been ordained in 1844 a minister of the gospel. In the last ten years of his life he added the volumes entitled Reason and Revelation, The Scheme of Redemption, The Great Commission, Analysis of the Gospels and Acts and Commentary on Hebrews which was published as a posthumous work, To the Tract on Prayer. He died peacefully in his home surrounded by his family and by friends, on March 20, 1875.

Product Details

• Title: The Great Commission of Jesus Christ to His Twelve Apostles: Briefly Defined and Illustrated
• Author: Robert H. Milligan
• Publisher: J. B. Morton & Co.
• Print Publication Date: 1873
• Logos Release Date: 2020
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Reader Edition
• Subject: Christian living
• Resource ID: LLS:WS_B788D7FA8F204749A9331C0CB79FB9E3
• Resource Type: Monograph
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