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< j > ec * i Har danger of losing sight of it . The apostle brings it home to the views and bosom of Tit toothy , by referring to the wellknown end of the gospel - which
was reformation and improvement in all the branches of godliness . He cautions him against the specious doctrines of the impostors , because they produced questions , i . e . angry disputes and
violent animosities , and not that divine edification or godly improvement , which the faith in its purity was calculated to produce .
The writer repeats the same admonition in two other places of this very epistle , see 1 Tim . iv . 7 . vi . 4 . and his meaning in those passages is surely the best guide to ascertain his meaning in this .
It is worthy of observation , that the editors b y adopting oiy ^ vo [ U % V ) oppose it as meaning the gospel to jables and genealogies ; whereas the word used . by the apostle evidently stands in opposition to questions , their unhappy effects .
The term expressive of the gospel , in contradistinction to the false doctrines , is faith . And . the apostle dissuades his pupil from the former by their bad conse-< juences ? and recommends the latter by its divine effects .
The epistles were all of them letters , which the authors addressed to the respective churches ; and they contain not abstract or
speculative matters ^ but turn on matters of practical , importance and actual occurrence , and these were the . false tenets and vices which were introduced into and
propagated with too much success by the Gnostics . The devclapenient of these tenets from the fathers , and a comparative vie ]^ of them with the apostolic writi
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ings , must consecfraenfly be the only rational and effectual way of elucidating what is obscure and ascertaining what is doubtful in them . Yet the editor holds forth .
to ridicule an attempt of this kind , as the effort of an imagination which is disturbed and haunted by silly dreams - Had he and his coadjutors pursued this course they would have given much better proofs of sound critical talents than are to be met with in
the Improved Version . Ignorant of , or inattentive to the peculiar circumstances in which the apostles wrote their letters , they have in various pluces mistake *! thfe
original , or if they are right , they are right only by accident . . The following verse ( 2 Tim * iii . 16 . $ is , I doubt not , faithfully rea * dered . u All scripture-given bir
inspiration of God , is profitable for teaching , for reproof , for correction , for instruction in righteousness : " Yet on the first view , it is liable to a very specious ob *
jection ; for needed the apostle . to say , that all scripture given by inspiration of God is profitable for teaching ! &c . Were there any so ignorant or illiterate a £ not to
know this ? But-this objec ^ ion ^ v ^ Mp nishes , if it be considered thai the apostle is here laying dowa a criterion between the impostures of certain false teachers / and ti |< real writings of inspiration . < Tht
former were subservient only to the purposes of their « vile authors , and therefore unworthy or credits On the contrary such as had n % sinister ends in -vievv ^ but wei * $ calculated to reform vice and en *
force virtue , conie recommended by an unequivocal nai ^ rk . of - "in * spiration- , v ' ' The editors have thus i ^ ndered ^
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1809, page 95, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1733/page/39/
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