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decide whether a noun without tlie article would be best represented in English by the noun preceded by the , or by the ncrun preceded by an , or ( sometimes ) fey the noun only ; since the connexion and circumstances of the
case alone can determine the point , and these often lead to ^ very different results according to the different points of view in which they are observed . For instance , Geo ^ ma y be translated God t the God , or a god , according to the circumstances and
connexion ; and vto $ son , the son or a son r and from this ambiguity vLOt $ - Sfsov admits of various renderings , for instance a son of Godj the son of Godr , a son of a god , the son of a god , &c .
Accordingly in the declaration of the centurion ^ Matt , xxvii . 54 . the Editors of the I . V . have rendered Stsoy viof a son of a god , though in vs . 43 . they have left the archbishop * s rendering of the same phrase , viz . the son of God . Jn Mark xv . 39 * the same phrase
in the same declaration is rendered the son of a god . If the second npun be to be rendered indefinitely , the . first noun should be rendered definitely , as in the Jatter instance from Mark ; but
we fee } much more satisfied with > fewcome s rendering , the son of Cvod * since we view the centurion not merely as sl Roman , but as a
resident in Judea , and not improbably a devout man , and one lybo was looking for the Messiah . I ( i . other instances too , this phrase is rendered indefinitely where to \ js it appears that the
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weight , though nearly equal oa each side , preponderates in favqiir of the definite rendering adopted -by Newcomer we have remarked
the following Matt . xiv . 33 . John xix . 7 . and Luke iv . Q . In the last instance the true reading of
the original is the same as in Matt , iv . 6 . viog tqv Sreov , and reall y requires the rendering which is employed in the latter place , in precisely the same circumstances . We more decidedly object to the rendering of r ^ e ^ oc Kgi &ecvs a day of judgment , in Matt . x . 15 .
xi . 24 . xir . 36 , &c . The sense appears absolutely to require the definite article in English ; and the original does not oppose the use of it . In one passage at least ( 2 Pet . ii . 9 ) the I . V .
retains Newcome ' s definite rendering of the very same phrase , c the day of judgment ; ' which we mention merely to shew that the Editors did not consider the alteration as required by the ori ? ginal and we know not how they could consider it as required by
the sense . In several other less important instances , we differ from the Editors as to their departures from Newcome in the translation of the Greek noun not having an
article , ( e . g . John vi . 59 . 1 Tini iv . 10 . ) and in others should have wished to have seen a departure from Newcome where he render *
an articled noun indefinitely , ( e . g . Matt . v . 1 . ix . 1 , 23 , &c . sind similar passages in thv * other evangelists i ) but in several we agree with them , and one of these will serve to illustrate some of our
merits of Calvin Win 6 tanlcy in his very judicious vindication of certain passages i in th £ Common English Version of the N . T . ( Longman and Co . ) wnich though published some years before Middjeton ' s work , is completely unnoticed ( JTfifuted it <;< nild uoi be ) by that learned but j » rejudxo # d writer . .. ,
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2 f 8 JRez > £ fc » r . — Improved Version of tke New Testament *
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1809, page 278, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1736/page/32/
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