The tree of the knowledf/e of f/ood and evil, of which they were forbidden to eat under penalty of excision from the tree of life, and consequent death, which also occupied a conspicuous place in the garden, was the divinely appointed test of good and evil, the means whereby God would try and prove the faithfulness and obedience of our first parents. It was the test of moral good and evil, i. e. of holiness and sin, ami f)f consequent happiness or misery (Gen. iii, 1-24). When, through the instigation of the tempter, the first human pair dis- regarded the command of their Creator and partook of the fruit of the prohil)ited tree, they lost the indwelling of the spirit of (iod, and forfeited the right of access to the tree of life. On that day the sentence of death was awarded to the guilty pair. They were now dead in the eye of the divine law, and the same condemna- tion passed upon the whole race of man. By partak- ing of the forbidden tree, they obtained an experi- mental sense of the distinction between good and evil. Hence their expulsion from Eden and removal from the tree of life was an act of mercy as well as of justice;
for, had they been allowed to retain the use (jf the tree of life, it would, in their con- tlition, have sustain- ed them in an im- mortality of guiltand misery. SeeMuUer, J)e A rbore Bvni et Jfali, et A rb. I 'itm (Lips. 1755); Journ, of Sac.Lit. Oct. ]8&2; Jan. and Oct. 18G4. See Eden.
Tregelles.SAM- u K L Phi i> i-: a u x, LL.D., an eminent English Biblical scholar, was born at Falmouth, Jan. 30, 1813. After receiv- ing an education at the Falmouth Classical School, he was employed in the iron-works at Neath Abbey, Glamorganshire, 1828-34, and became, in 183G, a pri- vate tutor in Falmouth. Devoting himself to the study of the Scriptures, he visited the Continent sev- eral times for the purpose of collating the principal uncial MSS. At Rome he was permitted to see the Vatican MS., but not to copy it. He received his de- gree of LL.D. from St. Andrew's University in 1850, and in 1863 received an annual pension of one hundred poiuids. Of Quaker parentage, he became associated with the Plymouth Brethren, was an active philanthro- pist, and was appointed a member of the company on the revision of the A. V. of the Old Test. Dr. Tregelles died at Plymouth, April 24, 187.5. He published, Eiir/- lishmun^s Greek Concordance to the Nein Test. (1839, im)). 8 vo ; 2d ed. 1844, imp. 8vo ; Index to, 1845, imp. 8vo) :— Jinr/lishman's Ilebreio and Chaldee Concordance to the Old Test. (1843.2 vols. imp.Svo):— v5oo^• of Revelation in Gree/:, etc. (1844, 8vo): — Gesenins's Hebrew and Chal- dee Lexicon to the Old-Test. Scriptures, etc. (1847, 4to; last ed. 1857, ito):— Remarks on the Prophetic Visions of the Book of Daniel (1847. 8vo; 4th ed. with notes, and Defence of the A uthenticity of the Book of Daniel, also published separately, 1852, 8vo) : — Book of Revela- tion, Translated from the Ancient Greek Text (1848, 12mo; 1858, 12mo) : — Pi-ospectus of a Critical Edition of the Greek New Test., etc. (Plymouth, 1848, 12mo) :— On the Orir/inal Languatje of St. Matthew^s Gospel (Lond. 1850, 8vo) -.— The Jansenists: their Rise, etc. (1851, 8 vo) : — Lecture on the Historic Evidence of the Authorship), etc., of the Books of the Neiu Test. (1852, small 8vo) : — Heads of Hebrew Grammar (1852, 8vo) : — An Account of the Printed Text of the Greek New Test. etc. (1854, 8vo): — The Greek New Test. Edited from Ancient Au- thorities, etc. (1857-72); this last is considered his most important work: — Codex Zacipithius (1861, small fol.) : — Canon Mnratorianiis, earliest catalogue of books of the New Test. (Camb. and Lond. 18G8, 4to). For full description of works, see Allibone, Diet, of Brit, and A nier. A uthors, s. v,
Trelawney, Sir Harry, an English baronet, was born in 175(), and was educated at Christ Church Col- lege, Oxford. He was in succession a preacher among the Methodists, then served a Presbyterian congrega- tion at West Loo, Cornwall, and afterwards seceded to the Rational Dissenters. Returning to the Church of England, he obtained a rectory in the west of England, and was made prebendary of Exeter in 1789. Accord- ing to Allibone, he died a Roman Catholic, at Laverno, Italy, in 1834. He published a sermon on 1 Cor. iii, 9, Ministers Laborers tof/ether with God (Lond. 1778, 4to). See Lond. Gent. Mar/. 1834, i, 652; Allibone, Diet, of Brit, and A mer. A uthois, s. v. ; Darling, Cyclop. Bibliog,
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Trelawney, •**'> Jonathan, an Englisli baronet ami prelate, born in 104S, was ordauu'd bishop of Bristol in If.S;"), translated to Exeter in J(i.s;t, and to Winches- ter in 1707. He was one of the seven bishops commit- ted to tlie Tower ii> the reii;n of, lames IL His death occurred in 1721. He published a serinon on Josh. xxiii, S, 9, Thunksgiriiuj for Victory (Lond. 1702, 4to) :
Caution iif/tiinst False Doctrine (1704, 12mo). See
ImiuI. Geiit. Maf/. 1827, iir409v iState Trials (Hivwell's ed.), xii, 182, 187; Allibone, Diet, of Brit, and Amer. A iithors, s. V. ; Darliivg, Cycloj). Bibliog. s. v.