RELIGIOUS ENCYCLOPEDIA
Lee Lefroy
1827' D.D., 1833). In 1819 he was appointed professor of Arabic at Cambridge, and from 1831 to 1848 was regius professor of Hebrew. He was also a canon in Bristol Cathedral after 1831, vicar of Banwell, Somerset, 1831-38, and rector of Barley, Hertfordshire, 1838-52. His publications include editions of the Scriptures in Arabic, Coptic, Persian, Syriac, and Hindustani; A Grammar of the Hebrew Language (London, 1827); Prolegomena to Bagster's Polyglot Bible (1829); Six Sermons on the Study of the Holy Scriptures (1830); A Brief History of the Church of Abyssinia (in S. Gobat's Journal, 1834); a translation of Job, with commentary (1837); A Lexicon, Hebrew, Chaldee, and English (1840); and An Inquiry into the Nature, Progress, and End of Prophecy (1849).
Bibliography: Alice M. Lee, A Scholar of a Past Generation; Memoir of Samuel Lee, London, 1896; DNB, xxxii. 378.
LEE, WILLIAM: Church of Scotland; b. in Edinburgh Nov. 6, 1817; d. in Glasgow Oct. 10, 1886. His father was John Lee, principal of the University of Edinburgh and professsor of divinity. He was educated at the high school and the University of Edinburgh, and in 1842 was chaplain to the marquis of Bute, lord high commissioner to the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland. In the following year he was appointed to the parish of Roxburgh, where he ministered with much faithfulness and acceptance for over thirty years. Pastoral duties did not prevent him from engaging in literary labor, or from taking an active part in the general work of the church and in the business of its Supreme Court. During his Roxburgh ministry he edited his father's Lectures on the History of the Church of Scotland (2 vols., Edinburgh, 1860); contributed to Cassell's Bible Educator, and published The Increase of Faith (1867), and The Days of the Son of Man (1874) . In 1874 his learning and ability led to his appointment by the crown to the chair of church history in the University of Glasgow. He devoted himself with much zeal to the work of his classes, and to the well-being of his students, but found time also to continue his contributions to literature, his most noteworthy writings during this later period being Scripture Biographies in the Bible Educator. Henry Cowan.
LEENHOF, len'hef, FREDERIK VAN: Dutch Protestant; b. at Middelburg Aug., 1647; d. at Zwolle (52 m. e.n.e. of Amsterdam) 1712. In 1670 he became pastor of the Flemish congregation in Abbeville in Picardy; in 1672 he was called to Nieuwvliet. In 1678-79 he was preacher at the extraordinary embassy of the general states at the court of Louis XIV., but returned to his native country in 1679 as court preacher to Albertina Agnes, the widow of the Frisian stadtholder. In 1680 he became preacher at Velzen, and in 1681 at Zwolle. He was an adherent of Cartesian Cocceianism; and in the history of Dutch Protestantism he is known in connection with the controversy produced by his book, Den Hemel op aarden; of een korte en klaare beschrijving van de waare en stantvastige blydschap (Zwolle, 1703), which he wrote to refute those who sought the test of Chris-
tianity in a morbid gloom. He maintained that the true service of God must lead to a pure enjoyment of true happiness on earth. On being accused of Spinozism and Hattemism (see Hattem, Pontiaan van), he defended himself in another work, Den hemel op aarden, opgehelderd van de nevelen van misverstand en vooroordeelen (Zwolle, 1704). In the course of the ensuing controversy the entire Dutch Church was thrown into a turmoil, and finally Van Leenhof was deposed by the Synod of Overyssel in 1708. The consistory and magistrates of Zwolle, as well as the estates of Overyssel, did not acknowledge the legality of his deposition, but to preserve peace Van Leenhof voluntarily resigned his charge Jan. 1, 1711. Other works are, De keten der bijbelsche godgeleerdheid (2 parts, Middelburg, 1678) ; Kort onderwijs in de chr. religie volgens d'ordre van de H. Schrift (4th ed., 1680); De geest en conscience des menschen in haar eygen wezen en werkingen eenvoudiglijk verklaart (3d ed., Amsterdam, 1683). (S. D. van Veen.)
Bibliography: G. F. Jenichen, Historia Spinozismi Leenhoflani, Leipsic, 1707; A. Ypey and I. J. Dermout, Geschiedenis der nederlandsche hervormde Kerk, iii. 240 sqq., 4 vols., Breda, 1819-27; E. J. Lorgion, De nederlandsche hervormde Kerk in Friesland, pp. 216-223, Groningen, 1848; L. A. van Langeraad, De nederlandsche Ambassade-Kapel te Parijs, i. 238-245, The Hague, 1893 (gives sources and further literature).
LEFEVRE D'ETAPLES, le-fevr' de"ta'pl, JACQUES. See Faber (Fabri) Stapulensis, Jacobus.
LEFFINGWELL, CHARLES WESLEY: Protestant Episcopalian; b. at Ellington, Conn., Dec. 5, 1840. He studied at Union College and at Knox College, Galesburg, 111. (graduated 1862). He was vice-principal of a military school at Poughkeepsie, N. Y., 1862-65, and then studied theology at Nashotah Theological Seminary, Nashotah, Wis., being graduated in 1867. He was ordered deacon and ordained priest in 1867, and was curate of St. James'. Chicago, 1867-68. In 1868 he established at Knoxville, 111., St. Mary's School for girls, of which he has since been rector, as well as of St. Alban's School for boys, which he founded at Knoxville in 1890. Since 1879 he has been editor of the weekly Living Church, an organ of the High-church party.
LEFROY, WILLIAM: Church of England; b. at Dublin Nov. 6, 1836; d. at Zermatt (72 m. e.s.e. of Geneva), Switzerland, Aug. 12, 1909. He studied at Trinity College, Dublin (B.A., 1863), was ordered deacon in 1864, and ordained priest in 1865. He was curate of Christ Church, Cork, 1864-S6 and perpetual curate of St. Andrew's, Liverpool, 1866-89. After 1889 he was dean of Norwich, and also vicar of St. Mary in the Marsh, Norwich, after 1903. He was honorary canon of Liverpool 1880-87, rural dean of South Liverpool 1884-87, proctor for the archdeaconry of Warrington 1886, and archdeacon of Warrington 1887-89. He was Donnellan lecturer at Trinity College, Dublin, 1887-88, and was regarded as the founder of the Clergy Sustentation Fund. Among his writings, special mention may be made of his Lecture on Scepticism (Liverpool, 1868); Plea for the Old Catholic Movement (London, 1875) ; Pleadings for Christ (1878); The Christian Minis-
Legates and Nuncios, Papal Legend, Legendary