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Tor the Monthly Repository .-
• The explanation of the design of tfoe Improved Version ^ giv ^ n -by orre . of ihe editors in your last ¦ number , might be deemed a sufficient apology , if it did not militate against the title page , which holds forth that work as an
improvement on the received translation . If that version abounds with instances of false taste and critical infidelity ; if instead of more adequately representing , it
ih many places unhappily perverts the original , it is of little consequence to the public and to the interests of true religion , whether * he original translator or his editors be the author . The work
does not sufficiently answer to the title it assumes ; tbe editors have sanctioned the errors they had liberty to change ; and they stand responsible to the tribunal of cri
ticism . In his remarks on " Theojogus /' your correspondent says , that in 1 Tim , i . 4 % QiytQYOfjAav dispensa - tion , and not tiKoSofjAav edification- is the true reading . For
this assertion he should surely give his reasons , ; for it is not supported by the undivided authority of manuscripts and versions . The Clermont MSS . reads oikooo ^ qcv ? the Syritic version , and the Latin
vulgate support it ; Wetstcm has received it into his text ; Mr . Wakefield , and even the primate , have rendered it in their respective versions ^ as the genuine reading . What does the editor then mean by saying positively that axovofAiay is the true one ? Is it recom-
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mended by the context , or by & better sense ? I think the con * . trary is the case . < 6 The mean ^ ing is , " write the editors ift a
note , " that idle questions concerning the fabulous genealogies of the Oriental philosophy would rather lead to trifling and endless
disputes , than to a practical knowledge of the Clmstian dis - pensation . " But could Timothy be so absurd as to suppose , that the knowledge of fables or
genealogiVs in the Oriental philosophy , contributed to a knowledge of Christianity , especially as those fables were directly opposed by their base authors to tbe new
faith ^ and expressly , designed to lead men away from embracing i : ? Or could St . Paul be so absurd as to admonish his young friend on a point wherein he knew no admonition was necessary ?
The danger which demanded the advice and authority of the apostle was this : the Gnostics prided in their superior knowledge , and impudently claimed all exemption from morals obligation ^ maintaining that the design of the new dispensation , did not consist
in purity , piety , and benevolence * It is in regard to their arrogance in this respect that the writer else * vtfhcre says , 1 Cor * viii . I . " Knowledge puffeth up , but love edifieth j" and in the verse succeeding that in question he writes , ' * The end of ; the com *
mandment is charity * This was a matter of the greatest moment , and the early Christians were ifl
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BEFENCE « E " STRICTURES O ? $ THE iMPHoVEfc YBRSIQtf / ' WJTI 5 FURTHER STRICTURES .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1809, page 94, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1733/page/38/
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