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    tion of No . 45 o the Professor has stated two widely opposite expositions of Matt . viL 24 . That the comparison of scripture with itself is a most important source of biblical criticism ' ,

    we readily admit : but we are not so fully satisfied as to the legitimacy and force of the principle on which he makes it depend , viz . that the whole of the scripture was intended to be / and , as

    inspired , m , ust really be , consistent ., ( p . 147 . ) In the first place , the fact of the inspiration is not granted , and cannot , we conceive ,. be proved to the extent contended for by this writer ; and , in the next , even if it were , we do not see how it could be

    decisive in philological and verbal criticism . Hence we should rather lay down a different principle , and say thaj , books written in the same countries ^ on the same topics , in the same languages ^

    and in nearly the same circumstances ^ may well he expected , as the fact shews , to throw strong light on each other . tC It is possible / ' observes Michaelis , " to doubt , and even deny , the

    inspiration of the New Testament , and yet be fully persuaded of the truth of ihe Christian religion . " * Our author ' s su bsequent remarks in this part of his work are written in the spirit of the sound * cst criticism . Transubstantiation

    he . properly regards as founded * on n strictly literal interpretation of figurative expressions , { p . l 6 l . ) And whether this be not also true of certain , <} octriqes which arecurrent in tUe Protestant coramuuion , he and our readers will

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    termine . In his translation of John xvii . 2 ., ingenious as it is , we do not acquiesce . We submit to his reconsideration whether , besides an enallage , there be not a Hebraism , whether' the

    use of the neuter for the masculine be not fivquent in the ! Nte \ y Testament , and whether the context do not shew our ' Lord ' s meaning to be Gentiles as well as Jews f ( pp . 163 , 164 . )

    ' * " By civil history , " says the * Professor , " we mean a relation of actions and events : " it should rather be a relation of actions avid

    events performed and occurring among men in society . A correct and well arranged work , for young persons , on the Geography of the Old Testament is still wanting ; and we cannot but wish that it

    may be undertaken by Dr . Carpenter , to whom we are already indebted for a valuable introduction to thai of the new . ( pp . 16 ' 5 182 . ) It may be doubted whether in 1 Tim . v * 23 . an allusion be

    intended to the Essenes ; this advice of Paul's seeming to be rather a prudential direction , suggested

    by his young concert ' s state of health , ( p . ZOO . ) For thc . meauing of Gemalria ( p . 212 ) Bux - torf > s Lex . Heb . Tal . ( p . 456 , ) may be consulted . Among the

    concordances of the LXX mentioned under No . 677 , p . 22 O , is that of Abraham Tromm : — but ' the Christian and the surname are so disjoined tas to give them the appearance of standing for two distinct persons . Schleusner ' s and BiTes Lexicons should not have been forgotten .

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    Review . —Gerard ^' 3 . Institutes of Biblical Criticism . 4 t $

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1809, page 43, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1732/page/43/