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S ** lo ra < m * s ; & ml of a dale which admitted a knowledge of the Chris * ttaf % di $ pen » ation ; unless we attrifcute to the author an eminence of the prophetic character which would cause us to wonder still
more at our present ignorance of him . To renew the curiosity of your readers towards the book ) I would quote a portion of it ; though it must be done very defectively not to trespass immode . rately on your pages and patience . The five first verses of ~ the third
chapter I used as a text ; u But the souls of the righteous are in the hand of God , and there shall no torment touch them . In the sight of the unwise they seemed
to die ; and their departure is taken for misery , and their going friom us to be utter destruction ; but they are in peacg * For though they be punished in the sight of men , yet is their hope full of
immortality ; and having been a liHie chastised , they shall be greatly rewarded ; for God proved them , and found them worthy of himself . " The 2 d ,. 4 th , and 5 th chapters have many great beauties in them ; and so direct a reference to the character and
history of Jesus Christ , that the most careless reader cannot avoid the application . Other chapters exhibit a beauty of figurative language and poetical imagery that will well repay your readers' attention to them : And in perusing them they may almost imagine a modern composition before them
by some mind of the finest order of wit and intelligence ; it is Christianity in the iiress ofphilo * sophv and stholustic learning ;—it- ' , echoes the voice of the gospel iri that lovely appellation which the latter so prt > cmuieiUJy ascribes
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to God the Father ; artd in-vaiii will the keenest orthodoxy search the book for a vestige of that monkish absurdity or nursery tale , the Trinity . Your readers who
venerate the important doctrine of the divine unity , will rise from
the study of the < Wisdom' * with purer and deeper convictions of that doctrine j and may have their wonder increased that any could miss it , and take up a notion of
the Deity which really falsifies the whole of the Jewish scriptures , and our Saviour ' s pretensions alsoy by making a considerable part of what he taught downright nonsense . Your readers , Mr . Editor
may see something exceeding curious on the ¦* ' Wisdom' * in th ^ Monthly Magazine for October * 1803;—and if they do not join the learned writer in his stalrtiirig
inference that Jesus Christ wrote the < c Wisdom ; " they wilt b & obliged to me for referring them to the most singular morsel xr learning that ever issued from the schools . ? Who was the translator of th & u Wisdom *? " And what the date *
of the translation ? Are therd Hebrew copies of it ; and of what
authority ? What do learned rabbies of the ' present time know about it h Had
the Jews no copy of the book before our Saviour ' s time ? Perhaps , Mr . Editor , these queries , which sufficiently tell myown ignorance * may provoke some
interesting communications from your more knowing correspondents , who will , by such communications , oblige , I have no doubt , others besides Your respectful reader ^ W . MARSHALL ,
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1814, page 342, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/mrp_02061814/page/22/
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