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Trial
Information on the subject of trials under the Jewish law will be found in the articles on Judges
and Sanhedrin, and also in Jesus Christ CHRIST.
Tribute
The chief biblical facts connected with the payment of tribute have been already given under
Taxes. The tribute (money) mentioned in (Matthew 17:24,25) was the half shekel (worth from 25
to 27 cents) applied to defray the general expenses of the temple. After the destruction of the temple
this was sequestrated by Vespasian and his successors and transferred to the temple of the Capitoline
Jupiter. This “tribute” of (Matthew 17:24) must not be confounded with the tribute paid to the
Roman emperor. (Matthew 22:17) The temple rate, though resting on an ancient precedent—
(Exodus 30:13)—was as above a fixed annual tribute of comparatively late origin.
Tribute Money
[Taxes; Tribute]
Troas
the city from which St. Paul first sailed, in consequence of a divine intimation, to carry the
gospel from Asia to Europe. (Acts 16:8,11) It is mentioned on other occasions. (Acts 20:5,6; 2
Corinthians 2:12,13; 2 Timothy 4:13) Its full name was Alexandria Troas (Liv. xxxv. 42), and
sometimes it was called simply Alexandria sometimes simply Troas. It was first built by Antigonus
under the name of Antigonea Troas, and peopled with the inhabitants of some neighboring cities.
Afterward it was embellished by Lysimachus, and named Alexandria Troas. Its situation was on
the coast of Mysia, opposite the southeast extremity of the island of Tenedos. Under the Romans
it was one of the most important towns of the province of Asia. In the time of St. Paul it was a
colonia with the Jus Italicum. The modern name is Eski-Stamboul, with considerable ruins. We
can still trace the harbor in a basin about 400 feet long and 200 broad.
Trogyllium
is the rocky extremity of the ridge of Mycale, exactly opposite Samos. (Acts 20:15) A little to
the east of the extreme point there is an anchorage, which is still called St. Paul’s port. [Samos]
Troop, Band
These words are employed to represent the Hebrew word gedud, which has invariably the sense
of an irregular force, gathered with the object of marauding and plunder.
Trophimus
(nutritious). Both Trophimus and Tychicus accompanied Paul from Macedonia as far as Asia,
but Tychicus seems to have remained there, while Trophimus proceeded with the apostle to
Jerusalem. (A.D. 54.) There he was the innocent cause of the tumult in which St. Paul was
apprehended. (Acts 21:27-29) From this passage we learn two new facts, viz. that Trophimus was
a Gentile, and that he was a native of Trophimus was probably one brethren who, with Titus,
conveyed the second Epistle to the Corinthians. (2 Corinthians 8:16-24) [Tychicus]
Trumpet
[Cornet]
Trumpets, Feast Of
(Numbers 29:1; Leviticus 23:24) the feast of the new moon, which fell on the first of Tisri. It
differed from the ordinary festivals of the new moon in several important particulars. It was one
of the seven days of holy convocation. Instead of the mere blowing of the trumpets of the temple
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