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Philip- ii . 6 , 7 * c who being in the form of God did not eagerly grasp at the resemblance to God , but divested himself of it . ' Though we have over and over again examined this passage . , and have at times felt some degree of
decision respecting the various renderings of it , we are unable to pronounce decisively as to them . The Editors of the I . V * seem to feel somewhat of the same indecision , for they say in the note ,
4 i Or if it should be translated with the public version , c he thought it not robbery to be as God / the sense would be , &c . " Though in some points of view the construction of the original , best suits the mode of rendering
adopted in the I . V . yet the sense appears to us most complete jn the latter . The translation in that case would run , who being in the form of God thought it Hot robbery to be as Godj yet divested himself of that formj < &c . In what sense it is true that
Jesus thought it not robbery to be as God we may derive from John v * 17 , ig 26 , &c « viz . speaking with the authority of God , " and acting agreeably to the purposes of God directly , communicated to him . —If however the first mode
of rendering be preferable , we could wish for a closer approach to the phraseology of the original ; hut we own ourselves unable to propose any closer rendering which would preserve the spirit of that in the I . V .
Col . i . lp , < For it ^ hath pleased the Father to inhabit all fulness b y him / The original is , * Ort > , & OCVrca OCV $ Q , Krj ( TB TCQLV 7 * 0 7 r \ 7 ) g W [ Jt , a , K otrQiKycou . In ch . ii . 9 . the original IS , ' On £ V OCVTOU KWrtHKGl 7 TQCV w tfhygwpa rrfi Sxsonjrof cwauu
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tiHcufy and the rendering of the I . V . is , * For in him dwelletk ail the fullness of the deity bo- * dily . ' We are at a loss to seo up *; n what principle of translation the Editors departed fro n * Newcome r s rendering of the firsjt passage , that in him all fulness should dwelL' However thus
much is obvious , that it was not through theological prepossession ; for that would have directed to retain the common rendering , since it points out the original source of that fulness of * divine
blessings which dwelt in Christy and with which the apostle S&ys , ch . ii . 10 . the Colossian disciples were filled . 1 Tim . iii . 16 . The rendering
of the I . V . here varies from N * principally on account of th « change in the text adopted by Griesbaehj who reads * o $ instead of $ zq $ the common reading * There can , we imagine ^ be no doubt in the minds of any who
have habituated themselves to the principles of criticism now prevalent among the leaFned that &eog is not the true reading . The MSS . evidence appears most .
satisfactory for o $ ; and Griesbach decidedly prefers it . To us * e appears to have greater claims than he allows , and even to de- * serve the preference ; but he $ H ? asxjvery where else we would foL , low Griesbach as a standard in
the tQX . t 9 and rest satisfied with giving any apparently preferable reading in the margin . —If Griesbach ^ s reading be adopted , does ' of refer to an antecedent , ox as
in several other places , may it be rendered f He who * ' Against the latter is urged the supposed deficiency ., of instances precisely similar ; against the tonner *
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Review . —Improved Versidn of the New Testament . % [ &
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1809, page 275, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1736/page/29/
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