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and by argument , and by scripture , which are the only weapons which we possess , and which we desire to employ , we will pursue this great design with persevering industry , till all the Dagons of superstition fall prostrate before the ark of the living God . For that truth and reason , and uncorrupted Christianity will ultimately triumph over error and
delusion we carji no more doubt , than we can doubt of the stability of the throne of the Omnipotent . 4 . The Reviewer states , p . 3 J 8 , that u the account of the different MSS , versions and editions is extracted principally from Lardner , " &c . and vouchsafes to add , " as far as we have observed , it is sufficiently correct /*
Much as the editors of the ¦ J . V . ^ rnust be flattered by this ^ testimo ny to their correctness , where praise is so sparingly and reluctantly bestowed , it would nevertheless be some gratification to them to learn to which of Dr .
jLardner ' s works this eminent critic apprehends that they are indebted for their information concerningMSS . versions and editions . That eminently-learned divine has written much ) and ably , to ascer-, tain the genuineness of the books of the New Testament ; but ,
concerning the correctness of the text , I do not recollect that he has written any thing . Are these subjects coincident in the mind of our learned critic ? How admirably qualified must a gentleman of such acute discernment and such extensive theological knowledge be «> to exercise the oftiqe of a Reviewer ; and how deeply humbled must the Editors of the I . V , be , to learn thatsuch a critic * f leans towards
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them with no great feelings of re * spect . " P .. 333 . 5 . Complaint is made , p . 313 that < c there is scarcely any pre . tention to original criticism . Notes critical and explanatory are few in number , scanty in mea * sure , and weak in substance . "
The Editors of the I . V . were doubtless apprised of the immortal honour which they would have acquired , if , by a laborious iiw vestigation of MSS . versions and
editions , they had discovered twenty passages in which Jesus was put before Christ , or Christ before Jesus , in ^ n order different from the received text , and as
many more , in which the article was introduced or omitted before a noun ; or if they had detected a number of instances in whigh the Apostle Paul , in the hurry of writing , had used the praeterper , feet tense for the aorist , and vice
versa ; or if , with the acumen of your correspondent , Thenlogus , they had disepvered an allusion to the gnostic heresy , in the ad - * vice of Paul to Timothy , to drink a little wine , as a remedy for
indigestion * They coy Id not bu t be fully sensible of the compliments upon compliments , and praises up < > m praises , which woyld h ** ve been heaped upon them by such critics and divines as the Quarterly Re ,
viewers , for th <* depth and accuracy of their ^ erudition , and for the important accessions which they had made to biblical literature , by the novelty and brilliancy of fheir discoveries / " But put
forth thy hand now , and touch his bone and his flesh , and he will curse thee to thy face * ' Let it once appear that your main object is to explain the true sense of the New Testament , and to shew
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376 The Quarterly Review and the Improved Version .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1809, page 376, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1738/page/22/
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