2. A Midianitish priest and nomadic herdsman in the wilderness, to whom Moses tied from Egypt, and whose
daughter Zipporah he married (Exod. ii, 16 sq.); but in Exod. iii, 1: iv. 18, Jethro i- called father-in-law of
Moses, and in iii, 1 is made priest and herdsman. Va- rious methods are suggested for meeting the difficulty: (1.) Josephus (A at. ii. 12, 1) considers Renel and Jethro as two names of one man. So I.engerkc ( /<< naatl, i, 39 I)
and Bertheau (Isr. Gesch. p. 242). (2.) Aben-Ezra, fol- lowed by Rosen muller, understands by father in Exod. ii, is. grandfather. (3.) Ewald {Isr. Gesch, ii. 14)
thinks "Jethro son of" lias fallen out of the text before Reuel in Exod. ii, 18. (-1.) Ranke {Pentat. ii, 8) under- stands the word chothen', ""■ rendered father-in-law, to mean brother-in-law, and compares the ambiguous use of the Greek yafifipoQ. We must then suppose
thai Jethro had succeeded lo the priesthood and Hocks of Iii- deceased father i Exod. iii. I). (■">. ) < t'.hers find a
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double genealogical tradition (Hartmann, Pentat. p. 223 sq. ; comp. De Wette, Einleit, ins A . T. p. 19(5). On this supposition the "compiler" must have been very care- less. The third explanation derives no support from the fact that the Sept., in Exod. ii, 16, twice mentions Jethro as father of seven daughters. The translators might have considered Reuel as the grandfather, and this would support No. 2. The fourth supposition is forced. If we must decide for any particular view, it seems simplest to understand grandfather for father (Exod. ii, 18), since Reuel was the father of the house until Jethro acquired independence. See Hobab ; Ra-
GL'EL.
3. Father of Eliasaph, the leader of the tribe of Gad at the time of the census at Sinai (Numb, ii, 14). In the parallel passages (i, 14 ; vii, 42, 47 ; x, 20) the name is given Deuel (q. v.).
4. Son of Ibnijah, father of Shephatiah (1 Chron. ix, 8), of the tribe of Benjamin. B.C. ante 1018.
Reii'mah (Heb. Reiimah', ilE^SO, elevated [Ge- sen.], or pearl [Fiirst]; Sept. 'Ptvpa), a concubine of Nahor, Abraham's brother ; and by him mother of Te- bah and others (Gen. xxii, 24). B.C. cir. 2040.
Reuss, Benigna vox (Countess), a German hym- nist, was born at Ebersdorf Dec. 15, 1095. where she also died, Aug. 1, 1751. She was a sister of count Henry XXIX of Reuss-Ebersdorf, and of the countess Erdmuth Dorothea, wife of count von Zinzendorf. She was a godly woman, and wrote some hymns, one of which haa been translated into English : Komm Segen aits der Hoke (Engl, transl. in Sacred Lyrics from the German, p. 155, li Attend, O Lord, my daily toil"). (B. P.)
Reuterdahl, Henrik, a Swedish Protestant di- vine, was born in 1795 at Malmo, in Sweden. He stud- ied at Lund, and in 1817 commenced lecturing as "pri- vat docent" of theology. In 1824 he was made adjunct to the theological faculty, in 1820 prefect of the semi- nary, in 1827 member of the chapter, in 1838 librarian, and in 1844 professor of theology at Lund. In 1852 he was appointed state-councillor and head of the depart- ment for religious matters, which position he occupied till 1855, when he was made bishop of Lund, and in 1850 archbishop of Upsala. He died in 1870. He wrote, On the Study of Theology (Lund, 1834) : — Introduction to Theology (ibid. 1837) -.—History of the Swedish Church (ibid. 1838-63, 3 vols.). Besides, he also published since 1828 the Theologish Quart alskr iff, and continued the Apparatus ad Historiam Suedo - Gothicam, com- menced by Celse. His De Fontibus Histoi-ice Ecclesias- tical Eusebiance, published in 1826, in 4 pts., is still of great value. See Winer, Handbuch der theologischen Literatur, i, 833, 892, ii, 730, Zuchokl, Bill. Theol. ii, 1059 sq. (B. P.)
Re val-Esthonian Version of the Scriptures. This version, which is used by the inhabitants of the north of Livonia, including the three adjacent islands of Oesel. Dagden (or Dagiie), and Mohn, was first print- ed at Reval in 1739, and partly published at the expense of the celebrated count Zinzendorf. In 1815, through the zeal of Dr. Paterson, and the aid afforded by the British and Foreign Bible Society, an edition of 10,000 copies of the New Test, was printed. Prior to 1824 the Russian Bible Society published 5100 copies of the Old Test., and some recent editions have been issued at Dorpat. Of late the American Bible Society has un- dertaken the publication of the whole Bible in the Re- val-Esthonian, now printing at Berlin, which is proba- bly now ready, having the previous year (1876) issued an edition of 20,000 copies of the New Test., with the Psalms, in 12mo. We subjoin the Lord's Prayer in that dialect, from Dalton's Das Gebet des Herrn in den Sprachen Russlands, p. 65: "Meie iza, kes sa oled taewas, pttb.it- setud sagu sum nimi, sinu rlk tulgu, sine tahtmine sundigu kui taewas nenda ka ma, peal; meie igapae- wane leib auna mejle tana-piiew; ja anna andeks meile
meie wolad, kui ka meie andeks anname oma wolglas* tele; ja ara siida meid mitte kiuzatuze sisse. waid peas- ta meid lira kurjast; sest sinu paralt on rlk, ja wagi ja au igaweste. Amen." See Bible of Every Land, p. 330 sq. ; Dalton, Das Gebet des Herrn in den Sprachen RussUuids, p. 25 sq., 05; Annual Reports of the Ameri- can Bible Society, 1870, 1877. (B. P.)