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    veas to improve , not to make per . feet * Permit me , however , to remark , that 1 have no doubt that the apostles in their writings often

    alluded to the Gnostic heresy , and perhaps more frequently than has been generally noticed ; but I cannot think that their

    imaginations were so completely haunted and disturbed with the silly dreams of those , pretended philosophers , as that of your respectable correspondent *

    As your candid correspondent , P . Hi has produced the words of Origen himself , your readers will be able to judge how far the aiu thor of the note alluded to by hjm has stated the sentiments of that father correctly . To me it would appear a most frivolous

    observation , that God only knows who * 1 19 - was the apostle s amanuensis , m

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    writing the Epistle to the Hebrews . The same might be said of every other epistle , excepting the Epistle to the Galatians ,

    which the apostle wrote with his own hand , and that to the Romans , in which the amanuensis

    announces his own name . Tome it appears clear , that Or i gen means to say , that some pupil of the apostle ' s , well instructed . in his master ' s doctrine , had written a letter , which might be called Paul's , because it contained nothing but what Paul had taught ;

    but who this writer was , could not then be ascertained . And to this opinion of the learned father , I am disposed to subscribe . I am , Sir , Your humble Servant , One of the Editors of the Improved Version .

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    $ 8 Strictures upon the Improved Version , — 1 Tim . iii . \ 6 . and iv . I . *"

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    STRICTURES UPON THE IMPROVED VERSION . — -1 TIM- III . l 6 . AND IV . 1 .

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    two considerations . Ifog be adopted , the passage is not Greek ; for it has no antecedent whereby the subject described is ascertained . Indeed , when o $ is used in the sense of ortg * or 6 * " 0 £ , qmcunque , whosoever , it may contain the an- ' tecedent in itself , and be

    therefore a nominative case to two or more succeeding verbs ; but I should be glad if the patrons of this version produce a single instance either in the New Testament , or in any other Greek .

    where 6 § y without being limited by a preceding noun , is used in a definite signification , and iaa * ie a nominative to more than one verb .

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    For the Monthly Repository *

    1 Timothy , iii . 16 . The editors of the Improved Version have rendered this verse in the following manner , And without controversy the mystery of godliness is great : He , who was manifested in the flesh * was

    justi-Jied by the spirit ^ fyc . adopting os e < pxvsgtoQr ) ev < raf k *; for the common reading , Srsos spoiyepwQy ) By pagKu Now , without insisting on the authority and number of

    ancient manuscripts , 1 propose to shew , that the vulgate Greek text is the correct one , and that the version before me is a palpable deviation from the meaning * of the writer . I rest my argument on

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1809, page 38, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1732/page/38/