Samuel Prideaux Tregelles

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Samuel Prideaux Tregelles (January 30, 1813 - April 24, 1875) was an English theologian. He was born at Wodehouse Place, Falmouth.

His parents were Quakers, and he himself for many years was in communion with the (Darbyite) Plymouth Brethren, but afterwards became a Presbyterian. For a while he worked at the ironworks, Neath Abbey, Glamorgan, and then set up as a private tutor in Falmouth, finally devoting himself to a laborious student life, until he was incapacitated by paralysis in 1870. He received the LL.D. degree from St Andrews and a pension of £200 from the civil list. He died at Plymouth on the 24th of April 1875.

Most of his numerous publications had reference to his great critical edition of the New Testament (1857-1872). They include an Account of the Printed Text of the Greek New Testament (1854), a new edition of T. H. Home's Introduction (1860), and Canon Muratorianus: Earliest Catalogue of Books of the New Testament (1868). Tregelles was a member of the English revision committee overseeing the preparation of the Bible translation known as the Revised Version (or English Revised Version) of which the New Testament was published in 1881, six years after his death.

As early as 1844 he published an edition of the Book of Revelation, with the Greek text so revised as to rest almost entirely upon ancient evidence. Tregelles wrote Heads of Hebrew Grammar (1852), translated Gesenius's Hebrew Lexicon (1846, 1857), and was the author of a little work on the Jansenists (1851) and of various works in exposition of his special eschatological views (Remarks on the Prophetic Visions of Daniel, 1852, new ed., 1864). His book The hope of Christ's second coming : how is it taught in scripture? and why? was republished in 2001 by Sovereign Grace Advent Testimony, ISBN 0900691700.

In 1861 he deciphered, transcribed, and edited Codex Zacynthius – Greek palimpsest fragments of the gospel of Saint Luke, obtained in the island of Zante, by the late General Colin Macaulay, and then in the library of the British and Foreign Bible Society. London : Samuel Bagster and Sons.

In April 1839 he married Sarah Anna Prideaux (born 22 September 1807).

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This article incorporates text from the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition, a publication now in the public domain.

H3: The Fry collection: papers relating to B.W. Newton, S.P. Tregelles, F.W. Wyatt, A.C. Fry, and others, at the Christian Brethren Archive[1] of the John Rylands University Library of Manchester
Fromow, George H. (ed.), B. W. Newton and Dr. S. P. Tregelles. Teachers of the faith and the future, London: Sovereign Grace Advent Testimony, 1959