Chronotaxis Cantici Canticorum Sahmonis, etc. (ibid, 1741): — Commentatio il< Assapho, etc. (ibid. 1742):— I'.rLliiriiinj nmi /.i rgli* ill rungd* ■< Buchi s Hiob, etc.(l leips, 1749 50). See Winer, lininlli. ill i- thirl. Literatur, i. ■_' 17. 353; ii. 727; Ftlrst, Bibl. Jud. iii. 117. 1 11. P.)
Reins, a name for the lcidneys, derived from the Lat- in renes, and in our English Bible employed in those passages of the Old Test, in which the term for kidneys (I — ". helayClK) is used metaphorically, i. e. i scept hi the I'- iilalouch ami in [sa. xxxiv. (!. where this word is rendered "kidneys." In ihe ancient system of phys- iology the kidneys, from the sensitiveness ol that part
Of the person, were believed to be the >eat of doire and
longing, which accounts for their often being coupled with ihe heart (Psa.vii,9; xxvi, 2; Jer. xi, 20; xvii. in. etc). See Krosi v>.
Ihe word -rein-" is once used (Isa. xi. 5) .-is the equivalent of "z"S'7i. chalatsdyitn, < lse\i ben translated •■ loins" (q. v.).
Reischl, Wii.ui ui Carl, a German Roman < !ath- olic divine, doctor and professor of theology at Munich,
was born in thai city dan. 13, 1818. Having completed his studies in bis native place, he was made a priest in
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1835, .and, after having occupied several positions as priest and chaplain, he was promoted in 1842 as doctor of theology. For some time he lectured at Munich, but in 1845 went to Amberg, occupying the chair of profess- or of dogmatics and exegesis. In 1851 he was called to Regensburg as professor of Church history and canon law, till he was recalled to his native city in 1867 as pro- fessor of moral philosophy, where he died, Oct. 4, 1873. In connection with others, he published a commentary on the Holy Bible, the New-Test, part being his sole work. See Literariscker Handweiser, 1873, p. 494. (B. P.)
Reiser, Anton, a German theologian, was born at Augsburg, March 7, 1628. He was first preacher at Schemnitz, and in 1659 became pastor of the Lutheran church at Presburg. Having in 1672 espoused Calvin- ism, he was thrown into prison and at length banished. Eventually, however, he served as rector of the gymna- sium at Augsburg, preacher at Oeringen, and after 1678 as pastor of the Church of St. James at Hamburg, where he died, April 27, 1686. He was the author of a num- ber of theological treatises, enumerated in Hoefer, Nouv. Biog. Generate, s. v.
Reiske, Joiiann. a German theologian, was born May 25, 1641, and died at WolfenbVittel, Feb. 20, 1710. He is the author of Exercitatio Philologica de Sudducce- is (Jena, 1666): — Tkeocratia, Rispnblica nine E.remjiln (ibid. 1670) : — De Lingua Vernacula Jesu Ckristi (ibid. 1670): — Conjecturce in Jobum et Prov. Salom. (Lips. 1679): — De Scriptorum Romanorum Judaicam circa Historian, Falsis Nai-ratiuncuHs, etc. (Wittenb. 1691): — Exercitationes de Valicin. Sibyl/. (Lips. 1688). See Fiirst, Bibl. Jud. iii, 150 ; Winer, Handb. der theol. Li- teratur, i, 137, 557, 562 ; ii, 728 ; Jocher, Gelehrten-Lex. s. v. (B. P.)
Reissmarm, Johaxn Valentin von, a German doctor of theology, and bishop of Wurzburg, was born Oct. 12, 1807, at Allersheim, in Lower Franconia. He completed his studies at the University of Wurzburg, which honored him with the degree of doctor of philos- ophy and theology. Towards the end of the year 1830 he was ordained priest and appointed to Volkach, but in 1834 he was called to Wurzburg as ordinary professor of exegesis and Oriental languages. This prominent position he occupied till Dec. 7. 1846, when he became a member of the chapter, and for a number of years he stood at the head of the diocesan government. In 1861 he was made provost of the cathedral ; and when, in 1870, his bishop died, he was appointed by the king of Bava- ria, Oct. 23, 1870, bishop of Wurzburg, and confirmed by the pope in the following year. He occupied the episcopal see only a few years, and died Nov. 17, 1876. See Literariscker Handweiser, 1876, p. 53 sq. (B. P.)
Reiter, Ernst Anton, a Roman Catholic priest, was born in 1821 at Amsberg. He received holy orders in 1846, and came in 1854 as missionary to the United States. In 1859 he was appointed pastor of the German church of the Trinity at Boston, Mass., and died May 5, 1873, at Erie, Pa. He wrote a very important work on the statistics of the Roman Catholic Church of the Unit- ed States, entitled Schemutismus derkatholischen deutsck- en Geistlichleit in den Ver.Staaten Nordamerikas (N.Y. 1869). See Literariscker Handweiser fur das bttholiscke Deutsckland, 1869, p. 465 sq. ; 1873, p. 271. (B. P.)
Reiter, William, a minister of the German Re- formed Church, was born in Lancaster County, Pa., Sept. 13, 1799, and spent his youth in Westmoreland Coun- ty, Pa. He studied theology privately with several ministers successively in Stark County, O., preaching meanwhile in the way of missionary tours under their direction. He was ordained in 1823, and took charge of a number of German Reformed congregations in Tus- carawas Count}', O., in whose service he continued up to the time of his death, May 8, 1826. He was a dil- igent student, and a minister that had much of the true missionary spirit.