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Review.—Carpenter's Letters to Veysie. 2...
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Art. I. A Connected History Of The Life ...
ther implies , he thinks , u such a shoot , as itself takes root and becomes a tree—a root arising from the trunk of David , The word
e / £ a root is several times used in the Apochrypha in the sense of offspring . See Schleusner , No . 6 . " ( p . 973 98 . note . )
In pp . 100 — 105 we have , arranged in -columns , a synoptical Table of the " Evidence of each separate book in the New Testament ; in favour of the principal opinions respecting the person of Jesus Christ . " presenting an
admirable summary of the Unitarian controversy . We do not remember having before seen the argument in this ingenious and most convincing form ; and we would humbly recommend to the author to republish the Table by itself .
on a folio sheet , omitting the references to the 4 Letters , ' and adding a few notes on some of the interpolated or mistranslated texts . Such a compendium would , we conceive , be eagerly received by our various book-societies : it
would be in the place of volumes to the inquiring , intelligent poor , and would soon find its station on the walls of dwelling-houses , and be as serviceable there , at the least , as King Charles ' s Golden Rules , or the homely prints of the Prodigal Son .
Unitarians commonly read " servant Jesus" instead of ic child' * or 44 Jesus / ' in Acts iii . 13 and 26 . and iv . 9 . 7 and 30 . Hotis unquestionably may be rendered cither child or servant : but the
following reasons ^ alleged by Dr . Carpenter , ( p . 126 , note , ) seem to show decisively , that the latter is the just translation , in theabove-Hientioned places .
Art. I. A Connected History Of The Life ...
cc i . If the Apostle meant by it the same as vio $ , no reason appears for his not using the more customary term , viz , viQS ? which is continually employed in reference to Jesus . 2 . In all the
instances in which the word is used in the N . T . it has no necessary connexion with the filial relation , but refers to the age or condition of the individual . 3 . In the writings of Luke , ( who uses it eleven times , besides the cases in . question , ) it
uniformly signifies either servant or young person ., 4 . In the very same prayer of the Apostles ( Acts iv . 24—30 . ) in which they twice use the term in reference to Jesus , they employ it in reference to David , "where the common
version has servant ^ viz . vs . 25 , \ f thy servant David A < % / 3 « £ tow rawSoj ( 7 « t > . And , 5 . in Matt . xii . t 8 , the common version translates it servant , in reference to jfesus himself > ISo * 0 vans 4 M » > Behold my servant , whom I have chosen .
" The author appears no where to more advantage , than in his critiques on those places which describe the new moral creation by Christ . He has handled with great dexterity and ability an ar * gument which appears to us decisive in favour of Unitarianism :
so decisive , indeed ^ that we know not how persons who can read the New Testament , with a spark of intelligence , can possibly understand Christ to be described in
it as the maker of the natural world . There is something plau * sible in the conjecture , that the " things invisible ^ ' in Colos . i . 16 . mean iC those who , living in the seclusion of ecclesiastical or
civil dignity and state , are not -within the reach of common observation , kings and princes , rulers and magistrates : * cc tht-. rulers of the East were peculiarly
separated from the great bulk of the people , and the sovereigns seldom seen by their subjects at large , " p . 177 and note . On John viii . 58 . and some
Review.—Carpenter's Letters To Veysie. 2...
Review . —Carpenter ' s Letters to Veysie . 253
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1810, page 253, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/mrp_02051810/page/37/
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