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never in the sense of Create ^ a fact which our Reviewer cannot , and hardly even attempts to disprove , in justification of the
translation , v . 10 . ' * the world was enlightened by him , ' * it is again remarked by the annotators , that the word yivo ^ cLi never bears the sense of create . A reader who
possessed a particle of candour , would of course understand the remark with the limitation immediately before specified , 2 . e . in the New Testament . But our candid Reviewer raises a piteous outcry against the increasing boldness of the annotators in the
unlimited universality of their assertion , and by a pompous appeal to Justin Martyr and other writers of the " Orthodox Primitive Church , * * he proves what nobody ever disputed , that these orthodox fathers used the word
yivopou in an improper sense , and that they misunderstood the Evangelist as well as himself . This learned Reviewer disapproves of the translation of John xvii . 3 . as wholly inadmissible . But as that is taken from Mr .
Wakefield ' s version , the reader will judge between the authority of one of the first scholars of the age , and that of an obscure anonymous writer in a Quarterly Review .
The Reviewer argues , that cc because it was proper , " as in the case of Stephen , ' to pray to Jesus , when visible in the heavens , he must be a proper object of adoration when he is invisible . '* ] £$ ut he has not condescended to
tell us why it must be so ; and every one has not the discenirnent of a Quarterly Reviewer , to see , that because it way be very proper to ask a favour of a friend .
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who is within sight and hearirig , that it must be equally property ask a similar favour when he is out of sight , and , for any thing we know , out of hearing too . The annotator to the 1 . V .
observes , upon Col . i . 15 . &c . that the Apostle , having represented all things in heaven and earth , as created by Christ , when he enters into detail , plainly shews that he did not mean natural sub * .
stances , but states oi things , alluding to the great changes introduced by the Gospel into the moral world . " All things were created by him , that are in heaven , and that are in earth ,
whether visible or invisible , \ vhe « ther they be , **—mark , not sun , moon , and stars , land and water , with their inhabitants , and the like ;
but— " whether they be thrones , or dominions , principalities , or powers . " Not things , but states oi things ; not one word of natural substances , but wholly of artifi * cial relations : notwithstanding
which , our sagacious Reviewer , who understands the apostle's meaning better- than the apostle himself , grkvely exclaims , " they possibly be serious ? Amongst the things in heaven must be reckoned the sun and other
heavenly bodies ; amongst the things on earth , man , with all the vegetable tribes . Let it be granted that our Saviour is here called the Creator of all these , and nothing more will be required . "
Very true , Mr . Reviewer , you may well be satisfied , if all this is to be granted . But let me apprise you , that ; we Unitarians are a , sort of stittlnecked people , who are not much in the habit 01 granting propositions , till they are proved . Aad though we ar *
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378 The Quarterly Review and the Inipr&oed Version . *
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1809, page 378, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1738/page/24/
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