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BIBLICAL CRITICISM.
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For the IWonthly Repository .
As often as 1 prruse the brief , but interesting conversation between our Lord / and Nicodemus , related by St . John in his 3 d chapter , I am surprised at our translators having rendered , in the 8 th
v <* rse , the original word tfv £ vu , a , by Wind . And I am equally surprised to find so many able and learned critics , and among them w ¦ * -m *^ r m m a ^ ^^» - ^ -f m * ¦ » ^^ " - » ^ » w * . A ^ -w ^ - «* ¦ - *¦ ^* - * » * ^ - ^ * * ^~ * ¦ * *
Arch-bishop Newcomc , Dr . Harwood and Mr . Cappe , adopting this translation : as they could not , one should imagine- be io > norant how the word hvsv \ lol was understood and rendered hv the learned critics and fathers oi the Christian church ; as well as at
what period , and on what particular occasion ^ the word , which had always been properly and generally translated spirit usy was translated ventzts . Some time ago I had a ISIS . put into my hands by a friend , supposed on good grounds , to
have been written by the learned Dr . Waterland ; which ib a dissertation expressly on tin ' s subject ; which is taken ab imo ; . for the learned critic shews how the ** text has beat interpreted w the most ear I if tiwt : s ~ and so on dozen"wards to this r-cry day . ' *
I shall venture to make a very free and liberal use of this valua * - ble MS . especially by referring to
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those ancient authors whom the Dr . quotes at large , and in their own-words ; the necessary limits of this paper , allowing me only to refer , not to recite . But although I shall , in point o £ authorities , make unreserved use of the MS ., I shall not do this in other respects ; as I differ extremely from Dr . W . as to many doctrinal explications and applications , not only of the text in question , but also of others with which it is connected . — -Here follow the text in question , and the two different translations .
John , cli . iii . v . 8 . To TtvBvihOc airs ' bsXsi Ttvsi , K } tr ^ v ( p evvrjv olvt £ UKsaiCy aAX' bk oi $ cc $ tfoSev EoytroLi ^ 7 t j its ' vTfd y sim sTtvt , ey ) 7 Tct $ 6 y £ ysyvr rji , sy ©^ f £ 7 trS 7 fvsvu , otlo £ .
—Translations . The wind [ spiritj blowcth [ breathes ] where it [ he } listeth [ wills or pleases ] and thou hearebt the sound [ voice ] , thereof , [ his ] but canst not tell whence it fix- ] cometh , and whither it [ he ] is
^ oeth : so every one that is born of the spirit * . The lirst author cited by Dr . W . is Clemens Alexand . of the 2 cl
Cent , in his Excerpta Theodoti . who thus expresses himself , " Godf whose spirit breathes where / it will : for the power pervades not in regard to substance ; but ac ~ cording to power and virtue , fyc +.
This rectified reading is that of our Anglo-Saxon , above 8 oo years ago . Such also is WickliFs about 350 years since . And it seems to have been first altered into what it is now . by W , Tindal , who translated the N . T , into English about x . 5 36 , and died a martyr abroad in 1536 . MS . * - ) : Excerpta Thcod . Sect . 18 . p . 79 Edit . Oxoa-
Biblical Criticism.
BIBLICAL CRITICISM .
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OBSERVATIONS ON THE USE OF THE WORD ITNEUMA , IN CHrtisr ' s conversation with ^ icodemus ,
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1809, page 88, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1733/page/32/
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