Pindar, John Hothersai.l, an English divine, was born in 1794. He graduated at Caius College, Cam- bridge, in 1816, and became principal of CodrinKton College, Barbadoes. He was afterwards canon residen- tiary and prebendary of Wells Cathedral, and principal of Wells Theological College, which latter office he re- signed in 18G5. He died at West Malvern, Eng., April 10, 1868. He published a volume of Se?-?nons on Com- mon Prayer: — Sermons on the Ordination Service: — Sermons on the Holy Days of the Church: — Expository Discourses on the Epistle to Timothy ; and some Lectures. — Appleton's Annual Cyclop, viii, 592.
Pinder, Thomas, a Wesleyan preacher of some note, was born at West Stockwith, near Gainsborough. Fug., Sept. 22, 1774. He was converted through Methodist agency in 1795 at Sheffield. He felt called of God to the work of the holy ministry, and in 1799 was appoint- ed to the Thetford Circuit. Thence for thirty-five years he labored on in a most exemplary discharge of his pas- toral and ministerial functions. In all the circuits in which he travelled he was highly and deservedly es- teemed, both in his public and private capacity. As a preacher, though not great, he was striking, faithful, and impressive. As a pastor, he was most tender and sympathizing. He died Aug. 27, 1835. — Wesl. Meth. Mag. 183G, p. 719 ; 1838, art. i.
Pineda, Juan de (1), a learned Franciscan monk, was born at Seville in 1557. After entering the order at the age of fourteen, he was carefully advanced in clas- sical learning, and then instructed in theology. As a student, he bore the reputation of great erudition, espe- cially in the Greek, Hebrew, and Oriental languages. He was placed at the head of the Inquisition in Anda- lusia, and was commissioned by cardinal Zapata to visit the principal libraries of Spain, in order to register those works which might be obnoxious to the Roman Cath- olic religion. The result of his inquiry was an Index novus Librorum Prohibitorum (Seville, 1631), published by order of cardinal Zapata, grand-inquisitor of Spain. Pineda published a version of Theodore Peltar's Catena Graicorum Patrum in Proverbia Salomonis. He also published Commmtarius in Job (Madrid, 1597, 2 vols, fol.) : — Pra>lectio sacra in Canticum Cauticorum (Seville, 1602) -.—Salomo Prcevius, sive de Rt bus Salomonis Regis (Lvons, 1609, libri octo) : — Commmtarius in EccL siash it (Antwerp. 1G20). He died at Seville Jan. 27, 1037.— Hoefer, Nouv. Biog. Generate, xl, 2G1.
Pineda, Juan de (2). another Spanish divine, was born at Medina del Campo in the 16th century, and has frequently been confounded with the preceding. He belonged to the Order of the Jesuits, and published /lis- teria maravillosa de S. Juan-Baptist a (Salamanca, 1574, 4to) : — La Monarquia Ecelesiastica, o Ilistoria Univer- sal del Mundo (ibid. 1588, 14 vols. fol. ; Barcelona, 1594. 1620) ; Agricultura Christiana que contiene xxxv, dialo- gos familiares (ibid. 1589, 2 vols. fol.). Many other works of his remain unpublished. — Hoefer, A 'our. Biog. Generate, xl, 262.
Pinedo, Thomas de (called in the synagogue Isaac), a noted Jewish litterateur of the 17th century was born in 1614 in Spain, but was obliged to leave his native country and seek a refuge in Amsterdam from inquisitorial persecution. He was more famed for his
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proficiency in Greek and the ancient classics than as a Jewish theologian. He was descended from the fami- ly of Pinheiro of Francoso, in Portugal His education he received at Madrid, where he was indebted to the training of the Jesuits for his literary attainments, of whom he speaks in grateful remembrance. He had al- ready reached a mature age when the suspicions of the Inquisition obliged him to quit the scene of his studies and tli*- society of his learned friends in the capital of Spain, to live in safety in the United Provinces, lie be- longed i" those few w ho were fortunate enough to evade ; the clutches of the Inquisition. He differs from Orobio de Castro in this especially, that he never in any of his writings attacked the Christian religion, but, on the contrary, frequently took pleasure in ac- knowledging its beneficial influences upon society, though lie did not spare the tribunal of the Inquisi- tion, of whicb he say-: "Me pudel pigetque prodidisse ente Christiana." Al Amsterdam he finished and published, in 1678, his edition of Sri^avoc. vrepi iroKkmv: Stephanusde Urbibusquem Primus Thomas d* Pinedo Lusitamis Latiijun dondbat et observationibus scrutinio variorum linguarum ac prcecipui Hebraicce. Pkcenicue, Grcecce, <<■ Latina diakctis Ulustrabat, and dedicated the work to the marquis of Mondejos, of the house of Mendoza, ever devoted to the encouragement of literature. Pinedo's work, whicb is very valuable for Jewish history and archaeology, and was lately edited with a preface by Dindorf (Leips. 1825, 1 vols.), shows thai the author was well acquainted with Jewish lit- erature. Besides Josephus, which tonus the basis of the whole, Pinedo quotes Benjamin deTudela's Itinera- ries; David Zemach (p. 182,584); R. Saloi farchi,s. v.
Antiochia, " quern Hebreei per rosetheboth Rasi vocant, celeberrimus in S.S. commentator;" Kimchrs Commen- tary mi Genesis (p. 497); Ibn- Ezra's Commentary on Esther (p. 583) ; Maimonides, Moreh Nebuchim; R.Aza- riah. Mia Haadomim (p. 583). In two passages Pint do mentions the name of Jesus, viz.. when speaking of Bethlehem, he says, after having given the explanation of the text: - Sed nmlto maps urbem nohilitanmt Davidis 1 1 Jem Nazareni natales;" and then, when speaking of Galilee, he adds: "Quia Jesus Nazarenus frequenter in hac regione versabatur, ideo Julianus, \arr\Q, eum per contemptum Galilceum 1 1 ( hris- alilceos vocabat. Sic enim vocabantur prins Christiani, qui sub imperatore t ilaudio, relicto Nazara <<-