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be just . " He hath given us life together s he hath raised us up together , he hath made us sit together , in Christ . " Though the preposition [ sv ] in be Jiot found before Christ , in the
first case , as in the two others , it may not be thought of much moment . Examples of the omission , in other places where it is doubtless to be supplied , might be easily produced . And it would
be nothing strange if it should have been omitted in transcribing , especially as ( ev Xg i 5 ~ tv ) in Christ occur in the next verse . Or , ( zv Xoirw ) in Christ * in the first
instance , may be an insertion , by tnistake of words that belong to the following part of the sentence . But without laying any stress on this conjecture , I think that the above translation is not
invalidated by the want of the preposition before the word Christ , which is as easily supplied here as in other places . The antithesis , you and us , least , is not here affected , and will comport with the present versions .
II . There should not be , perhaps , any stop between the 17 th and I 8 tli verses of the first chapter of this epistle- I see that the words \ 7 rt $ u ; rir' - ' j ~ evov $ rov $ o&Ba , ? . - povs ~ \ are translated by the case absolute in the old and new
versions ; " the eyes of your understanding being enlightened . & ^ - Now this rendering of the objective case can be supported by very few authorities , and is certainly
harsh . Without any separation between the two verses , we arrive at a line explanation of the phrase , ** a spirit of , % tiisdom and revelation , " and the passage will then stand thus . 4 < That the God of our JLord Jesus Christy the Father
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of glory , may give you a spirit of wisdom and revelation , in a know ., ledge of him , ( even ) the eyes of your mind enlightened , that , &c . " I cannot help expressing a suspicion that rfs < paj 7 ' io fjt , evov £ is a cor , ruption , and that the true
reading was Tts < potjTL ( r [ x , EVQig which , would properly refer to t / jxiv , in the last verse , and remove every difficulty . At the same time , if we admit that the writer may have forgotten the case in which
he had used the former word ,- and refer nts ^ uono' ^ vovg to vpiv , notwithstanding the failu |<| p ^ gramr matical accuracy , th ^^ atne end is gained as by supposing an error in transcription . The most ele , gant Greek writers may be pro , duced as having fallen into a
similar inadvertency . To avoid prolixity , I will instance only in one passage out of Xen . Cyrop , Lib . 8 . Bov \ oiJs £ yo £ Ss rivcc notrcc * o-ytoirov TTejUAj / a * erfi AvSiag , xgli [ jlol&siv o , ri tfgotcr ' crei o Aevvgiof , e $ o % ev avTcvj * k . * f . A . Here Bou-Xollsvoc and avraq do not agree
in case , though accuracy required that they should do so ; but I must now dismiss this text . III . Baptists , Pnedobaplists , and Antibaptists , have , in their turn , endeavoured to derive
support to their respective opinions from the obscure text , I . Cor , vii . 14 , which probably lias no reference to baptism in any form . Mr . Wafcefield produces it as a decisive proof that infants are , by birth . Christians , and on that ac
count , have no occasion for baptism at any age . Dr . Toulmiu , with great judgment and spirit , has turned Mr . VWs conclusion into absurdity , by applying bis reasoning to the case of the husband anc } wife , who would o ^
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444 On Ephes . u . 1—6 ; Ephes . i . 17 , 18 ; 1 Cor . vii . 14 ,
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1809, page 444, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1739/page/30/
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