1. William Milligan was a renowned Scottish theologian.
13 Facts About William Milligan
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William Milligan studied at the University of Halle in Germany, and eventually became a professor at the University of Aberdeen.
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William Milligan is best known for his commentary on the Revelation of St John.
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William Milligan wrote two other well-known books that are classics: The Resurrection of our Lord and The Ascension of our Lord.
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William Milligan was born at 1 Rankeillor Street in south Edinburgh on 15 March 1821, the eldest of seven children of the Rev George Milligan and his wife, Janet Fraser.
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William Milligan worked hard, but his liberal politics and mild broad-church views were not congenial to many of his colleagues, and his amiability concealed from his students the real strength of his character.
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William Milligan's views on the importance of dogma and on the sacraments he learned, as he believed, from St John, of whose writings he was a lifelong student and diligent expositor.
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William Milligan had been a member for years of the Church Service Society.
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William Milligan was keenly interested in social and especially in educational questions.
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When on the eve of retiring from his chair at Aberdeen owing mainly to failing eyesight, William Milligan was suddenly seized with illness which soon proved fatal.
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William Milligan is buried in Grange Cemetery in south Edinburgh.
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William Milligan's last article was a notice In Memoriam of Dr Hort, which appeared in the Expository Times.
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William Milligan left unfinished a work on the Epistle to the Hebrews, and forbade the publication of the parts he had written; some of his notes have been used in a work on the same subject, since published by his eldest son, the Rev George Milligan who went on to be Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland in 1923.