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    The ministering angels , or as it is in the original , the c / tosen angels , i . e . chosen to be the ministers and confidents of God are the same with those , to whom our Lord alludes in Mat . xviii .

    10 . On this last passage , Mr . Jones , in his Illustrations , has the following observation . " The Jews entertained the notion , derived from their Pagan neighbours , that

    the care of every man frofa his birth was consigned to one of those superior beings , which they called angels , but which the Heathens called demons . Of this

    mythological opinion , our . Lord here avails himself , without meaning to countenance it as true , and inculcates by it the duty of respecting the meanest , if well disposed , among his

    followers . " Take heed that ye despise not one of these little ones ; for I say unto 3 ou , that in heaven their angeJs do always behold the face of my Father , who is in heaven . " As if he had said :

    " For angels of the highest order , who enjoy the peculiar honour of living in the presence of God , are their guardians / ' The office of these angels or demons ,

    according to some of the Heathen philosophers , consisted in bringing down from heaven the sifts of the gods to men , and conveying in return the thanksgivings and requests of men to the gods . Divested of their mythological

    veil , the words are to this ' effect , u ye careful not to despise any of these little ones ; for they stand high in the estimation , ami enjoy the , peculiar protection of Almighty God . " . p . 3 ? 0 , 371 . The editors of the I . V . have rendered the phrase chosen ' messengers supposing it to mean the apostles .

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    By this the passage is- robbed not only of its original beauty but of its meaning ; # Griesb . ach Reserves great respect for his candour and patient investigation . But the Editors , regard - ing him as an oracle , from whoso dictate there is - no appeal , have on his authority not scrupled to mangle some of the soundest

    parts of the N . T . This being a fact of great jnoment , I purpose , Mr . Editor , to prove to you and the public fhat Griesbach has by altering , on many occasions , corrupted the Greek text ; and that

    the authors of the Improved Version , by following him , while they claim superior light , have impli-, citly followed a guide , who though not blind , was often in the dark . One instance ' of this corruption we have already seen in Tim . u 4 . ; and I proceed again to state another , in which he has been Still more glaringly unsuccessful I allude to 1 Tim . iii , \ 6 . where ' o £ is introduced for $ rso $ . That the former is not the true reading is demonstrable from the following reasons . * € > £ violates the usage

    of the language , —it obliterates every vestige of the apostle ' s

    meaning , —it contradicts the authority of the ancient manusci ipes . The relative * W , when it stands for ort £ or * o < roc , that is , when it points out only an unknown individual , may imply the antecedent in itself , and thus be a

    nominative case to two or more succeeding verbs ; but this is never the case when the subject is intended to be quite definite , if * o $ were the genuine reuuin ^ the nominative case would lie on , ly so far determined as to mean , gome unknown individual , wjiiio thu verbs in the succeeding clauses

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    Strictures on the Improved Version * 213

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1809, page 213, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1735/page/37/