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作者 魏司堅（又譯霍志恆，Geerhardus Vos）
於1862年3月14日出生在荷蘭，在1881年與家人一同移民到了美國。
他在位於密西根州大溪城的基督教改革宗教會（CRC, Christian Reformed Church）的神學院（即加爾文大學和神學院的前身），以及普林斯頓神學院學習過之後，又在德國進修，先在柏林，後來去了斯特拉斯堡，並於1888年獲得了阿拉伯研究的博士學位。
早在他做學生的時候，他的個人恩賜和跨越整個神學研究領域的傑出學術能力就非常突出，也得到廣泛認可。1888年秋，他開始在大溪城的母校教課，長達五年之久，他負責從希臘文法到系統神學的很多科目，每週教學任務重達25個小時，此外遇有至少每週一次的講。在1893年，他接受了普林斯頓神學院的任命，擔任新建立的聖經神學部主任，直到他1932年退休。這後來被證明是他一生中做的最重要決定。
魏司堅在普林斯頓的年歲似乎比較安靜，不受打擾，都投入到教學研究、寫作和偶爾的講道中。他的這段生活沒有受到任何外來事物的攪擾。借著神學院的資源、一些著作和無數篇論文及評論文章，魏司堅發展出「聖經神學」這一分支學科，並在古典改革宗信仰告白和神學的框架內，對舊約和新約進行了神學解釋。魏司堅於1941年8月13日在大溪城去世。
來源: Wikipedia
Vos was born to a Dutch Reformed pastor in Heerenveen in Friesland in the Netherlands. In 1881, when Geerhardus was 19 years old, his father accepted a call to be the pastor of the Christian Reformed Church congregation in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
Geerhardus Vos began his education at the Christian Reformed Church's Calvin Theological Seminary in Grand Rapids, before moving to Princeton Theological Seminary. He completed his studies in Germany, receiving his doctorate in Arabic Studies from the Philosophy Faculty of Strassburg University in 1888.
Herman Bavinck and Abraham Kuyper tried to convince Vos to become professor of Old Testament Theology at the Free University in Amsterdam, but Vos chose to return to America. Thus, in the Fall of 1888, Vos took up a position on the Calvin Theological Seminary faculty. In 1892, Vos moved and joined the faculty of the Princeton Theological Seminary, where he became its first Professor of Biblical Theology. At Princeton, he taught alongside J. Gresham Machen and B. B. Warfield and authored his most famous works, including: Pauline Eschatology (1930) and Biblical Theology: Old and New Testaments (1948).
Vos' wife, Catherine, authored the well-known Child's Story Bible. She died in 1937, after 43 years of marriage. They had three sons and one daughter, and their son Johannes Geerhardus Vos studied at Princeton Theological Seminary and also became a minister.
