SAMUEL PRIDEAUX

See also:

• SAMUEL PRIDEAUX TREGELLES (1813–1875)

TREGELLES (1813–1875)  , English theologian, was born. at Wodehouse Place, near Falmouth, on the 3oth of January 1813 . His parents were Quakers, and he himself for many years was in communion with the (Darbyite) Plymouth Brethren,. but afterwards became a Presbyterian . Dodona; the sacred 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 image (cf . Rameses II. and 'his idols; see Breasted, Egypt . Hist . Doc. iii . 179, note; and for analogies see Folk-Lore, viii . 325) . ' Even the Hebrews knew of the good-will of " Him who dwelt in the bush " (Deut. xxxiii . 16) . For ideas associating Yahweh (Jehovah) with trees, see J . G .

Frazer, Anthrop . Essays to E . B .

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

They include an

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