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    flOw little countenance it affords to certain favourite phrases and popular bypotheses 5 \ and how do the whole host of Party-Reviewers and venal Anti-Jacobins , at once

    Start ap in a rage , And cry , all shame is iost m George ' s age . To the ingenuity and learning of philological critics , and to the industry and sagacity of those able men who have devoted their

    talents to the correction and improvement of the sacred text , the Editors of the Improved Version have not been wanting in due respect , and of the results of their acute and laborious researches , they have often and thankfully availed themselves . But their

    chief ambition is directed to objects widely different . Their design evidently is , to put it into the power of the serious and attentive reader ^ to peruse the Scriptures with under

    standing . By the explanation of Jewish phraseology ? and the illustration of obscure passages , and of figurative language , and especially by comparing one text with another , and . after the

    manner ot the great Mr . Locke , niaking the Scripture its own interpreter they endeavour to convince the humble £ tnd unprejudiced enquirer after truth , that the New Testament lays no foundation for , and gives no countenance to , those metaphysical and uncouth doctrines , which are received by many as fundamental truths . And though the editors , in the discussion of these

    points , simply state what appears to them to be the genuine sense of Holy Writ , and use no harsh ° r opprobrious language against those who maintain contrary opi-

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    nions , yet they could not be unapprised of the mortal offence which would be taken nor of the foul invectives which would be

    launched forth against them , by real bigots ^ or by the interested partizans of popular error ; and these they are contented to endure . 6 . The objections which the Reviewer alleges against particular passages in the I . V . are fe \* r and trivial . He is dissatisfied with the reasoning from Mat . iv . 1 . to prove the temptation to have been a visionary scene ; but if he wishes for information upon this head , he may consult Mr . Farmer ' s celebrated Essa }^ . He makes the usual trite objection against the interpretation of the word aicvviof , in Mat . xxv , 46 . which is explained in the notes to the I . V . of limited dura

    tion , when applied to punishment , while it is understood of unlimited duration , when applied to reward . To which the usual and trite , but amply satisfactory

    answer , must be given ; that the word , in itself indefinite , is ne-, cessarily limited by the nature of the subject , and the reason of the thing . The logic of the Reviewer , if it were admitted ^ would prove , that when it is said ( 1 Chron . xxix . 20 ) the whole

    congregation worshipped the Lord and the king , the Israelites offered the same adoration to the monarch , which they offered to Jehovah .

    Having given a specimen of his logic , the Reviewer next exhibits a sample of his candour . It having been observed in the note upon John i . 3 . that the word yivopou occurs upwards of 700 times in the New Testament , but

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1809, page 377, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1738/page/23/