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    h hypothesis . For though in the N lower empire the double date of an emperor ' s reign was not un . common , such a thing was never heard of in the time of' Tiberiiis though the Reviewer boldly asserts , without however attempting to prove , c > that in point of fact there has been this twofold computation of Tiberius ' s reign / 3 p .

    327-Xevertlieless , in the true spirit of an orthodox believer , the Reviewer adds , If we were wholly unable to give any probable solu . tionj we should positively deny that this apparent discrepancy invalidates the whole narration . "

    liravv )! : An inspired "writer hist gives a long detail of what happened to Jesus in the days of Herod the king . He afterwards , \ vith singular accuracy in fixing the date , ascertains that Jesus was not born till soitSe years after Herod was dead . Of this

    discrepancy no probable solution can be given * Vet this contradiction does not stagger the resolute faith of our intrepid Reviewer . No . u must unravel difficulties as we can : " and if we cannot

    unravel we must swallow them . Let your sceptical Unitarians laugh if they please * Credo quia impo&sibile < st . I wish to God there were a hundred more . 4 . To rescue the character of

    the evangelist from inconsistency , the Editors of I . V . express their doubts of the genuineness of the two first-chapters of Luke ' s histoiy , and remark , that though ? hoy are found in all the copies which are now extant , they were , wanting in those of JVlarcion ^ a reputed heretic of the second century . What reply docs our honest and

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    candid Reviewer make to this ap «* gument ? He first details from Epiphanios a string of extravagances , which tiiat orthodox bu shop has chosen to impute t < 5

    Marc ion ; and then concludes -with this sneering remark , p , 32 $ . " We shall say no more , but must assure our readers that these

    annotators have all the appearance of being in earnest , when they produce the authority of this Marcion to invalidate St . Luke . " Now Sir , no person of cortu mon understanding can doubt * that the Reviewer was fully apprised , that the annotators of I . V . never thought of producing the

    authority of Marcicn to invalidate St . Luke ; but as an evidence to prove that certain narratives ascribed to that evangelist were not , in fact , written by him . But our worthy Reviewer thought that his word would pass with his wellmean inp readers . Had an Unu

    tarian writer been guilty of this disingenuous artifice , what an outcry should we have had of hypocrisy , falsehood , fraud , and what not ; but when heresy is to be hunted down we all know * , that in the estimation of many , the end will sanctify the means .

    In abusing ^ heretics , our learned Reviewer places the same confidence in the testimony of St . Epiphanius which he does in St . Barnabas , for the foundation of his orthodox church of Jewish Christians . Let us then hear the

    character of this holy bishop , that we may be able to form a judgment of the credit due to his testimony , especially in cases i » which , heresies nnd heretics are concerned . " He had / 7 says Duping ( an honest and learned Catholic historian , ) " much m uling

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    424 The Quarterly Review and the Improved Version . -

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1809, page 424, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1739/page/10/