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TREGELLES, SAMUEL PRIDEAUX (1813–1875)

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TREGELLES, See also:SAMUEL PRIDEAUX (1813–1875) , See also:English theologian, was See also:born. at Wodehouse See also:Place, near See also:Falmouth, on the 3oth of See also:January 1813. His parents were See also:Quakers, and he himself for many years was in communion with the (Darbyite) See also:Plymouth Brethren,. but afterwards became a Presbyterian. See also:Dodona; the sacred See also:oak of which the Argo was built) ; also (b) it was believed that the divine essence could be made to enter—transubstantiated as it were—into an See also:image (cf. See also:Rameses II. and 'his idols; see Breasted, See also:Egypt. Hist. Doc. iii. 179, See also:note; and for analogies see Folk-See also:Lore, viii. 325). ' Even the See also:Hebrews knew of the See also:good-will of " Him who dwelt in the See also:bush " (Deut. xxxiii. 16). For ideas associating Yahweh (See also:Jehovah) with trees, see J. G.

Frazer, Anthrop. Essays to E. B. See also:

Tylor (1907), p. 125 seq. 2 See See also:Chadwick 33, 35; Frazer, Lectures, 225; and Hartland ii. 181, 184 (who refers to the See also:tree-See also:worship taken over by St See also:Maree and St Etto). Even the temples of Dodona and of See also:Jupiter Capitolinus stood on the sites of older tree-worship. For a while he worked at the ironworks, See also:Neath See also:Abbey, Glamorgan, and then set up as a private See also:tutor in Falmouth, finally devoting himself to a laborious student See also:life, until he was incapacitated by See also:paralysis in 1870. He received the LL.D. degree from St See also:Andrews and a See also:pension of £200 from the See also:civil See also:list. He died at Plymouth on the 24th of See also:April 1875. Most of his numerous publications had reference to his See also:great See also:critical edition of the New Testament (1857–1872; see See also:BIBLE; New Testament, Textual See also:Criticism).

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Account of the Printed See also:Text of the See also:Greek New Testament (1854), a new edition of T. H. See also:Horne's Introduction (186o), and See also:Canon Muratorianus: Earliest See also:Catalogue of Books of the New Testament (1868). As See also:early as 1844 he published an edition of the See also:Book of the See also:Revelation, with the Greek text so revised as to See also:rest almost entirely upon See also:ancient See also:evidence. Tregelles wrote Heads of See also:Hebrew See also:Grammar (1852), translated Gesenius's Hebrew See also:Lexicon, and was the author of a little See also:work on the Jansenists (1851) and of various See also:works in exposition of his See also:special eschatological views (Remarks on the Prophetic Visions of See also:Daniel, 1852, new ed., 1864).

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