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634 Review.—Carpenter's Letters to Vtysi...
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Art. I. A Connected History Of The Life ...
other passages , we observe , with pleasure , that Dr . Carpenter adopts the interpretation of some of the old Socinians . We wish that it
were possible to revive the study of those valuable writea's amongst theological students . Of late years they have scarcely had justice done thefa . There is iittle in
modern Unitarian books tohich is not to be found in their works . We have , it is true , great advantages in point of a correcter text of the N . T . but they have surely the greater merit of
deducing an almost equally rational taith from a corrupt text . They were not all equally judicious critics ^ but they were all respectable , and some of them eminent . The
small volume of Enjedinus , for instance , which we referred to p . 145 , is thick-studded with golden critical maxims , and has scarcely any substitute in the English language , if , perhaps , we except the work before us . It would ,
\ ve conceive , be a most useful service to the Unitarian cause , if it were given ^ in our language , with such additions as the present state of the controversy and
biblical knowledge render expedient * It is singular , that Dr . Lardner should , according to his own confession , have been unacquainted with the Socinian writers when he
wrote his valuable treatise on the Logos * The usual Unitarian acceptation of 4 € Before Abraham was , I am /' 15— << My day , my mission , my character , was predetermined
and prefigured before the time of Abraham , ' * but to this there are strong objections . Enjedinus , who is followed by the present writer , shows , by a train of for-
Art. I. A Connected History Of The Life ...
cible arguments , that the true sense of the place is , * Before Abraham shall be , " i .. e . shall be " Abraham , or ( according to the spiritual import of this name , given to the patriarch as a name of promise ) the Father ofnations y * ' 1 am he , " I must be the
Messiah . The Transylvaman bishop proves that Abraham sazo Christ ' s day and was glad , when Isaac was born . He justly complains that Unitarians should be blamed for understanding ourLord ' s words , not in a natural sense with the
Jews , but in a spiritual one with himself and the apostles . cc Inepti et ridiculi surit , qui Christi verba ex sensu Judaeornm intcrpretari volunt : cum totum eontrarium
sit faciendum , nam ut paulo ante dixit Jesus , vs . 15 ^ Vos secundum carnemjudicatisj ego non" H « expresses , in concluding , a becoming confidence in the strength
of his argument . < c Quise cum itasint , quivis oculos et conscientiam habens , testaii potcsr , nihil nos in verboruni horum
explicatione novum , aut contra scrip * turse usum confinxisse . " We know not whether Dr . Carpenter consulted the author with whom we have taken the liberty to compare him ; we should
suppose not , from the superior evidence in favour of the exposition which he attributes to the paper of Discipulus , Theolog . Repos . vol . iv . p # 348 . who certainly found the substance of his remarks
in Enjedinus , but who does not appear to us to have stated the argument upon the whole with nearly so much force . We refer to this writer , now scarcely modern , not . merely in justice to him , but likewise in corroboration
634 Review.—Carpenter's Letters To Vtysi...
634 Review . —Carpenter ' s Letters to Vtysit .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1810, page 254, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/mrp_02051810/page/38/
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