Samuel Prideaux Tregelles
Samuel Prideaux Tregelles ( born January 30, 1813 in Falmouth, † April 24, 1875 in Plymouth ) was a British Bible scholar, textual critic, and theologian.
Life
Tregelles was born as the son of the merchant Samuel Tregelles (1789-1828) and his wife Dorothy, nee Prideaux (1790-1873) in the property Wodehouse Place, Falmouth ( Cornwall). His parents were Quakers, but he himself was for many years connected with the Brethren ( Plymouth Brethren ). In his later life he joined the Presbyterians (or perhaps the Anglicans ).
From 1825 to 1828 Tregelles visited the classical language high school in Falmouth. 1829-1835 he was employed at the ironworks at Neath Abbey, Glamorgan. In his spare time he used to learn Greek, Hebrew, Aramaic, and Welsh. His interest in the Welsh language evolved from the desire to spread the gospel and especially to combat the influence of atheism, Catholicism and Mormonism in Wales. 1835 Tregelles private teacher in Falmouth, and finally he devoted himself to research, to him in 1870 prevented her paralysis.
In April 1839 Tregelles married his cousin Sarah Anna Prideaux ( 1807-1882 ). They had no children. 1850 Tregelles received from the University of St Andrews a Doctor of Jurisprudence in 1862 and a pension of £ 200 from the civil list ( 1870 doubles ).
Work
Tregelles discovered that the Textus Receptus is not based on ancient sources, so he wanted to give the Greek New Testament on the basis of ancient manuscripts and citations earlier church fathers new. He knew nothing about it for many years that his text-critical work with that of the German philologists and text critic Karl Lachmann ran parallel. Tregelles was first well known by his " Book of Revelation in Greek, edited from ancient sources " ( Book of Revelation in Greek Edited from Ancient Authorities, 1844), which also contained the announcement to provide a new Greek New Testament.
1845 Tregelles went to the Vatican with the intention to collate the Codex Vaticanus. Although he negotiated for five months, he was not allowed to write off the manuscript. Still, he could write down some important readings from memory, he had seen the presentation. From Rome he went on reading to Florence, Modena, Venice, Munich and finally to Basel, where he everywhere manuscripts and collated. In November 1846 he returned to England and continued to collate manuscripts in the British Museum. Tregelles also visited Paris, Hamburg, Berlin ( where he met Lachmann ) and Leipzig, where he worked with Konstantin von Tischendorf. Finally Over Dresden and Wolfenbüttel he came to Utrecht.
Most of his numerous publications were in reference to his great text-critical edition of the New Testament ( 1857-1872 ). They included the "presentation of the printed text of the Greek New Testament " ( Account of the Printed Text of the Greek New Testament, 1854), a revised version of the chapter on textual criticism in Thomas Hartwell Horne's "Introduction" ( Introduction to the Critical Study and Knowledge of the Holy Scriptures, 1860) and an output of the Muratorian Fragment ( Earliest Catalogue of Books of the New Testament, 1868). Tregelles was a member of the committee that oversaw the revision of the King James Bible, known as the Revised Version and the New Testament was published in 1881, six years after Tregelles ' death.
Tregelles wrote " main pieces of Hebrew Grammar" ( Heads of Hebrew Grammar, 1852) and translated the Hebrew lexicon of Wilhelm Gesenius (1846, 1857) from Latin into English. He has also written a book about the Jansenists ( 1851).
In various works, he put his special eschatological views represent: " Remarks on the prophetic visions of Daniel " ( Remarks on the Prophetic Visions of Daniel, 1852, new ed 1864. ) And " The hope of the second coming of Christ" ( The Hope of Christ 's Second Coming, 1864). Like his cousin Benjamin Wills Newton, who played a role in Tregelles ' conversion and the publication of his books supported financially, Tregelles was also a representative of the doctrine of the Rapture after the " Great Tribulation " (Post- Tribulationist ). He later supported its part, Newton in his debate with John Nelson Darby and the " exclusive brethren ".
Notwithstanding his great erudition Tregelles was a warm evangelical Christian who wrote many hymns, which are today largely forgotten, however. His first songs were in a songbook of the Plymouth Brethren ( Hymns for the Poor of the Flock, 1838) published.
An acquaintance of Tregelles said that he " was able to brighten any issues that could be addressed ," but also that it was dangerous to ask him a question, because, " if you did, it was as if If you reach for a book and doing the whole shelf full of books falls on his head. "