Encyclopedic Dictionary of Bible and Theology

Travail That sin has made life a burden and has turned work into toil and travail is acknowledged by all, and this fact has found its place among the lessons contained in Hebrew words. The word amal () sets forth labour in its toilsome aspect, and is well represented in the LXX by , , … Continue reading “Travail”

Trauthson the name of an ancient Tyrolese family which furnished two representatives to the episcopal office in the Church of Rome. The former of these was twenty-first bishop of Vienna, and died in 1702. The latter, JOHANN JOSEPH, Count Trauthson and Falckenstein, was born in 1704 at Vienna, in which city he studied (and possibly … Continue reading “Trauthson”

Traskites SEE TRASK, JOHN. Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

Trask, John a Sabbatarian Puritan, was a native of Somersetshire, and, after being a schoolmaster until he was thirty-four years of age, became a preacher in London about 1617. He was at first refused ordination by the bishop of Bath and Wells, but afterwards got orders and began to vent his opinions. He enjoined severe … Continue reading “Trask, John”

Trasilla and Emiliana, Saints Aunts of St. Gregory the Great, virgins in the sixth century, given in the Roman Martyrology, the former on 24 December, the latter on 5 January. St. Gregory (Hom. XXXVIII, 15, on the Gospel of St. Matthew, and Lib. Dial., IV, 16) relates that his father, the Senator Gordian, had three … Continue reading “Trasilla and Emiliana, Saints”

Trappists The reorganized congregation of the ancient Order of Citeaux founded 1098 by Saint Robert in accordance with the Rule of Saint Benedict, reformed by the Abbot de Rance, 1664. Despoiled by the French Revolution, a number of the monks with their superior, Dom Augustin de Lestrange, took refuge in Switzerland and elsewhere until restored … Continue reading “Trappists”

Trapp, Joseph, D.D an English divine, was born at Cherrington, Gloucestershire, in November, 1679. Educated at first by his father, he was afterwards placed under the. care of the master of New College, Oxford, and in 1695, entered Wadham College in the same city. He was chosen, a fellow of his college in 1704, and … Continue reading “Trapp, Joseph, D.D”

Trapp, John a Puritan divine, was born in 1601, and educated at Christ Church, Oxford. He was schoolmaster at Stratford-on-Avon and vicar of Weston-on Avon from 1624 until his death, in 1669. He wrote, God’s Love-Tokens (Lond. 1637, 4to): Theologia Theologice (1641, 8vo): Commentaries on the Scriptures, viz. St. John the Evangelist (1646, 4to); All … Continue reading “Trapp, John”

Trapier, Paul, D.D a Protestant Episcopal clergyman, a graduate of the General Theological Seminary, was for several years prior to 1856 rector in Charleston. S.C. In 1857 he resided in Lynchburg, Virginia, and remained there until 1859, when he removed to Camden, S.C., having been appointed professor of ecclesiastical history and the evidences of Christianity … Continue reading “Trapier, Paul, D.D”

Trapezopolis A titular see in Phrygia Pacatiana, suffragan to Laodicea. Trapezopolis was a town of Caria acording to Ptolemy (V, 2, 18) and Pliny (V, 109); according to Socrates (Hist. eccl., VII, xxxvi), Hierocles (Synecdeus, 665, 5), and the “Notitiae episcopatuum” it was a town of Phrygia Pacatiana and among the suffragans of Laodicea until … Continue reading “Trapezopolis”