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ttose of thejifi k class having no direct doctrinal tendency , there appears to us to ^ be room tor hesi tation . Admitting this class seems to involve the neces * ity of introducing those which have a
doctrinal tendency , against which , except so far as they may be re ^ < qtiisfte in justification-of the translation ,, we do feel a decided objection ; but , separate from this difficulty we consider such notes as a very useful addition to the work , and should have been glad to have seen them much more numerous . Valuable , however , 3 s they and the doctrinal notes undoubtedly are ^ it is our earnest wish that beth classes had been
omitted , if both must otherwise have been introduced ; and , upon the whole , « s the object was , a faithful- translation of a cornet test , and not a commentary , it "would probably have been be tier , if the explanatory not' s had f rm ~ cd a separate work , to be * added or not as the purchaser chose .
We are aware that while objecting to the insertion of doctrinal jiote . s , we oppose the opinion of many friends of the undertaking ; but the following considerations appear to us to justify our objections . For who . se benefit arc these notes designed ? For those whose minds are already favourable to Uniiarian tem-ts ? It so , a separate collection would have answered every purpose for the
© lily pi-cuhnr advuinnge prising / rom their being placed under the 3 e . \ t is , to give them a better , ch : incc oi hi ing . generally rea < i ; and person *; of this description $ vould have gladly availed ? hem-$ elv < v « of notes b y I he editois of the Improved Version . It they are deaignQi for pcvs » vi > b who
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without being at all inclined to Unitananism , are not strongly prejudiced against it , but are really disposed to embrace scri p * turai truth wherever they discover it , we conceive that short detached notes will not answer the purpose : this appears rather to re .
quire a more connected view ( such as one of the editors could most ably have given ) of ihe grounds on which the Unitarian maintains that his opinions are scriptural . We do not , in shorr perceive any advantage arising from the
insertion of the notes , sufficient to compensate for the obvious and decided disadvantage resulting from it , except such as might have been answered by a separate publication : that disadvantage is , obstructing the use of the Improved Version amoncr those whose
sentiments are in opposition to our own , and connecting With the Translation itself the ' idea , that it must be warped by a system of which th $ editors , in their notes , manifest so thrrough an approbation . Yet if the Improved Version be regarded as a party production , it must be principally
from the complexion of the due trinal notes : the lenderings which are most nearly connected with peculiarities of opinion , we have already examined , and , in general , they are , in their essential fea-( ures critically just . We are anxious about the spread of Unitarianism , chiefly because we regard it as the
doctrine of the scrpUire-s ; and we know of no means of propagating it jnore likely to be widely , perinamirfl y and beneficially efficacic . us than t'he diffusion of scripf-iral knowledge . We regard a iaiilii ' ul translation of a £ oncct
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386 Review . —Improved Version of the New Testament .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1809, page 386, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1738/page/32/
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