Beet's Commentary on Selected Books of the New Testament

　　Joseph Agar Beet was an English Wesleyan, born at Sheffield on Sept. 27, 1840.

　　He attended Wesley College, Sheffield (1851-56), and took up mining engineering, but afterward studied theology at the Wesleyan College, Richmond (1862-64). He was pastor 1864-85 and professor of systematic theology in Wesleyan College, Richmond, 1885-1905.

　　He was also a member of the faculty of theology in the University of London 1901-05. He delivered the Fernley Lecture on The Credentials of the Gospels in 1889, and lectured in America in 1896.