Tropological Inti-.p.i'rktation is where a moral signification is given to a passage. An illustration will explain this sense. In Dent, xxv, 4 we read, "Thou shalt not muzzle the ox when he treadeth out the corn." Paul (1 Cor. ix, 9) quotes this precept of the law, add- ing tlie comment, " Doth God take care for oxen V Or saith he it altogctlier for our sakcsV For our sakes, no doubt, this is written." — Blunt, Diet, of Doctrines, s. v.
See HEBMIiSKL'TICS,
Trork, Pkklev, a IJaptist minister, was born at Williamstown, Yt., Sept. 11, 1813. He studied theology at Hamilton, graihiating in the class of 1841, and be- came pastor of the church in F^ast Lansing, N. Y., in 1842, where he remained until the fall of 1847, and then removed to Sheboygan Falls, Wis., and commenced his labors as a missionary. Here he remained nine years, until an overworked brain compelled him to leave the ministry for a time. \\'lien his health was in a meas- ure restored, he returned to his work. His longest pas- torate was at Pipon, Wis., where he remained for live years. His last days were spent with his former Church at Sheboygan. He died in the hospital for the insane, near Osiikosh, Aug. 11, 1877. See Neu- I'urk L'xumiiitr and Chronicle, (J. C. S.).
Trosle, Council ok (Concilinm Ti-osleinmim), was held in Trosle, a small village near Soissons, France. It assembled June 2fi, 909, Ilerive, archbisliop of Pheims, presiding. The decrees of this council are signed by twelve prelates, and are contained in lifteen chapters, they are in the form rather of long exhortations than of canons, showing the pitiable condition of the Church.
I. Orders due respect to the Church, to clerks, and to monks.
3. Kelates to the reform of abuses in mouastic institu- tions.
4. Anathemntizes those who pilhige the Church.
5. Anathematizes those who injure and persecute the clergy.
6. Is directed against those who refuse tithe.
7. Against rapine and robbeiy, and orders restitution. S. Is directed against the violent abduction of women,
and incest.
9. Forl)ids priests to have women in their houses.
10. Exhorts all Christians to cliariiy, and to avoid lux- ury and excess.
II. Forbids perjury and oath-breaking.
12. Is directed against passionate and litigious persons.
l.S. Against liars and honiicides.
14. Denounces those who plunder the property of bish- ops afier their death.
1.5. Contains an exhortation to all the faithful to ab- stain from sin and to do their duty.
See jMansi, Concil. ix, 520. — Landon, Mamial of Coun- cils, s. V.
Trost, Martin, professor of Hebrew at ^A'itten- berg, where he also died, April 8, 1(536, was born at Hoxter in the year 1588. He juiblished, Grammutica Hebraica Universalis (Hafiiia;, 1627, and often); excerpts from his grammar were published by Baldovius, Geze- lius, Mitternacht, ami Jlylius: — Dispntatio de Mntatione Punctorum Ilebra;oriim Generali (Wittenberg, 1633): — Novum Test. Syr. cum Versione Latina ex Dicersis Edi- tionibus Recensitum. A ccesserunt in fine notationes vuri- antis lectionis collected a M. Tr. (Ciitiien, 1621). See Fiirst, Bibl. Jud. iii, 449; Winer, llandhurh der theol. Literatur, i, 55 ; ii, 808 ; Steinschneider, Biblioy. lland- buch, p. 141. (B. P.)
Troth (truth'), a word occurring in the Prayer-book only in the marriage service, thus, "And tliereto I plight thee my troth ,•" that is, "thereto I most solemn- ly pledge thee my truth and sincerity." Near the end of the same service the minister says that the persons now married have "pledged their troth each to other," i.e. have iiromiscd to be true a.m\ faithful to each oth- er.— Stanton, Diet, of the Church, s. v.
Trough (ririy, shoketh, from Hj^d, to drink), a ves- sel of wood or stone for watering animals ((ien. xxiv, 20; XXX, 38). See Wki-l, But in Exod. ii, 16 a dif- ferent term {^ty~^,r a hat, irom the idea of floiriny ; "gut- ter," Gen. XXX, 38, 41) is employed for the same thing. See also KxEAniNo-THouGii.
Troyes, Councils of (Concilium Tricassinu7ii),weTe held ill Troves, France, a city which has a splendid (iothic cathedral, founded in 1208; the Church of St. Urban; the Church of St. John, in which Henry Y of England was married ; the Church of Sainte-IMadeleine, containing a stone rood-loft of great beauty; and a public library of 110.000 volumes.
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TRUCE OF GOD
I. Held Oct. 25, 867. About twenty bishops, from the kingdoms of Charles and Lothaire, were present, who wrote a long letter to pope Nicliolas I, in which thev gave the history of the affair of Kbbo, and of the )iriests whom he had ordained. They, moreover, be- soiigtjt the pope not to interfere with the rule laid down by liis predecessor, and not to permit, in future, the deposition of any bishop witiiout tlie intervention of the holy see. This was in accordance with the prin- ciples of the false decretals of the pope. See Mausi, Concil. viii, 86IS.
II. Held in 878, by pope John YIII, who presided over thirty bishops. The former had come into France to escape from the violence of Lambert, duke of Spolet- to. In the first session, the pope exhorted the bishops to compassionate the injuries which the Roman Church had suffered from Lambert and his accomplices, and to excommunicate them. Tlie prelates, however, declined to act until the arrival of their brethren. In the sec- ond session, John rea<l an account of the ravages com- mitted by Lambert, after which the council declared him to be worthy of death and anathema. The arch- bishop of Aries presented a petition against bishops and ])riests leaving one Church for another, and also against persons deserting their wives in order to marry other women. In the third session, the bishops declared their consent to the pope's propositions. Hincmar of Laon, whose eyes had been put out, presented a com- plaint against his uncle, and demanded to be judged according to the canons. Hincmar of Rheims reipiired that the cause might be delayed, to give him time to reply to the complaint. Further, the sentence of con- demnation passed against Formosus, formerly bishop of Porto, and Gregory, a nobleman, was read, anathema- tizing tliem without hope of absolution; as also were the canons forbidding the translation of bishops, viz. those of Sardica, Africa, and of pope Leo. Seven can- ons were publislied.