17 ; vi, 1 ; vii, 20, " treasure-house"], a store or deposit). See also Aslitim. In 1 Chron. xxviii, 11, the treasury of the Temple is called T\'^^, ymzak ; and means sub- stantially the same as the Kopliai'cii; of Matt, xxvii, 6, namely, the hoard of money contributed towards the expenses of that edilice. The same thing, or jierhaps rather the i)lace where the contribution-boxes for this purpose were kept, is designated in the New Test, as the yaso^wXaKiov (Mark xii, 41 ; Luke xxi, 1 ; John viii, 20), and so likewise Josephus {A nt. xix, (J, 1 ; War, v, 5, 2), after the Sept, (Neh. x. 37 ; xiii, 4, 5, 8 ; Esth. iii, 9). According to the rabbins this treasury was in the court of the women, where stood thirteen chests called trump- ets from their form or funnel-shaped mouth, into which the Jews cast their offerings (comp. Exod. xxx, 13 sq.). See Temple.
Ti'eat, Sajiuel, a Congregational minister, was born at Milford, Conn., in 1G47 (or 1048), and graduated at Harvard College in 1069. He was ordained and settled at Eastham, Plymouth Colony, in 1072. Soon after his settlement he studied the Indian language, ami devoted to the Indians in his neighborhood mucli of liis time and attention. Through liis labors many of the savages were brought into a stare of civilization and order, and not a few of them were converted to the Christian faith. In 1093 he wrote a letter to Increase Mather, in which he states that there were within the limits of Eiast- ham live hmidred adult Indians, to whom he had for many years imparted the (iospel in their own language. He had under iiim four Indian teachers, who read in separate villages on every Sabbath, excepting every fourth, when he himself preached the sermons which he wrote for them. He procured schoolmasters, and persuaded the Indians to choose from among themselves six magistrates, who held regular courts. In 1700 he began to serve the new settlement of Truro, and per- formed parochial duties imtil a church was established. After having passed near half a century in the most be- levolent exertions as a miidster of the (Jospel, he died, iMarch 18, 1717. He published the Confession of Faith in the Nauset Indian language, and an Election Sermon (1713). See Sprague, Annals of A mer. Pulpit, i, 183.
Treaty. See Alliance.
Trecanum, an anthem sung after the communion, before the 0th century, in honor of the Holy Trinity; called by this name in Gaul. Some thiid« it was the Apostles' Creed. In the Greek Church there is a con- fession of the Holy Trinity sung after the llagia Ilar/i- ois. The latter form is mentioned l>y Cyril of Jeru- salem, Basil, and the Mozarabic and Gallican liturgies. — Walcott, Sac. A rchaol. s. v.
Tredischi, Nicholas, an eminent ecclesiastic, was a native of Sicily, born towards the close of the 14th century, ami became one of the most celebrated canonists of his time. He was present at the Council of Basle, in which he took a prominent part, and was made a car- dinal by Felix V in 1440,
Tree, prop. yV, its {ch'Spov'), which also signifies icood (5r»Xo)') ; in Jer. vi, G, the fem. nit", etsdh, is used. Besides this generic term, there also occur peculiar words of a more distinct signification, e. g. 3U.*X, eshel (1 Sam. xxii, 0; xxxi. 13; "grove" [q. v.] in (ien. xxi, 33), which is thought to denote the tamarisk or else the terebinth; b-^X, «/ (Isa. Ixi, 3 ; Ezek. xxxi, 14) ; Chald. ■;Vx, il/m (Dan. iv, 10 sq.), prob. the oak (q.v.) ; TllTI yj, vts haddr ("goodly tree," Lev. xxiii, 40) , rSN yV. e.s nbnth ("thick tree," ver, 40; Neh. viii, 15), and >N^, tseel ("shady tree," Job xl, 21, 22), which designate rather vigorous trees in general than specific varieties. See Tabernacles, Festival ok. For a list of all the kinds of trees (including shrubs, plants, fruits, etc.) men- tioned in the Bible, see Botany. See Taylor, Trees of Scripture (Lond. 1842).
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Ancient Assyrinus cutting clown Palms of a Besieged City.
In Eastern countries trees are not only graceful orna- ments in the landscape, but essential to the comfort and support of the inhabitants. The Hebrews were forbid- den to destroy the fruit-trees of their enemies in time of war, "for the tree of the field is man's life" (Deut, XX, 19, 20). Trees of any kind are not now very abun- dant in Palestine. Some trees are found, by an exam- ination f>f the internal zones, to attain to a very long age. There are some in existence which are stated to have attained a longevity of tliree thousand years, and for some of them a still higher antiquity is claimed. Individual trees in Palestine are often notable for his- torical and sacred associations (Thomson, lAind and JBook,u,lb\). See Allon-b.vchuth; Meonenim.
TREK OF Ltfp;, etc. Whatever may have been the frame and texture of Adam's body while in Eden, it is certain that, being "of the earth, it was earthy," and was thus liable to disease and exposed to decay; just as his soul, at the same time, was liable to the greater evil of temptation by being exposed to the power of the tempter. Hence, while "every tree of the garden was given for food," the tree of life, in the midst of the garden, was provided by Infiuite Wisdom as the ap- ])ointed antidote of disease or decay of the body, while, at the same time, the enj<iyment of spiritual life, or the indwelling of the spirit of God, and the right of access to the tree of life, thus securing immortality, were con- ditioned on our first parents not eating the forbidden fruit of the tree of knowledge (Cien. ii, 9-17). The va- rious references to the " tree of life" evidently consider it to have been the divinely appointed medium for se- curing the immortalitv of our first parents (Prov. iii, 18; xi,30; Ezek. xlvii", 12; I.'ev. ii, 7; xxii,2, 14). See Reineccius, De A rbore Vitce (Weissenf. 1722). See Life.