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all English , as well as to all Jewish " law and custom , ' to trace the pedigree through the huhtband of the mother . But if the child is proved to be the son of a different Ifather , lie would by evtry principle , whether of Jewish or of English law , and by the universal custom of all civilized nations , be excluded from all share in the
paternal inheritance : and the writer would be regarded as little better than an ideot , who should attempt to justify the claim of a child by proving the legitimates- descent of the reputed parent , when it was at the same time notorious , that the husband of the mother
was not the real father of the child . All this , however , so far from shaking , rather increases the sturdy faith of our orthodox Reviewer , who concludes with declaring his
firm persuasion , that the evangelist , having given the pedigree of Joseph to prove that Jesus was the don of David , by distinctly stating , immediately afterward , that he was not in fact the son of
Joseph , * betrays no incongruity ; but on the contrary , shews a most strict and beautiful consistency /* 2 L The Editors of I . V . argue , that 4 * though the narrative is to be found in all the copies of the gospel of Matthew which are now
extant , we nevertheless know from the testimony of Epiphanius and of Jerome , that it was wanting in the copies of the Nazarenes and Ebionites , z . e . of the ancient Hebrew Christians , for whose instruction this gospel was originally written /'
In reply to this argument , the Reviewer complains , p . S 2 % that ** Hebrew Christian , Nazarene , and Ebionite , are here artfully
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classed together as synonymeug terms , when they an * decidedly distinct , " And to ^ gu ard his readers against bring misled , by the wiles of these artful and fraud u * lent annotators , he kindly informs them , that the Hebrew Christians , for . whom St . Matthew wrote his
gospel , A . D . 66 , were not the identical " Nazarenes and Ebonites of whom Epiphanius speaks , A . D . 370 , who were posterior to the former b > 30 O years . " But notwithstanding this wonderful discovery , our learned Reviewer does not pretend to deny , that both the Nazarenes and Ebionites
were sects , as he i& pleased to call them of Hebrew Christians . He argues indeed from Epiphanius , that the Nazarenes were different from the Ebionites , and that they used a full copy of Matthew ' s
gospel ; i . e . as the Reviewer in * terprets it , a copy containing the two first chapters . The learned Casauboft conjectures that the true reading in Epiphanius is s * tf \ y ) i > es-OLlov 9 yot a full copyf which Jer . Jones , whose learned
work upon the Canon was lately republished by the Cniversity of Oxford , affirms to Jbe very proba - ble . And haying clearly shewn ? that Epiphanius had never seen
a Nazarene gospel , this eminently learned writer adds , ** that for aught Epiphawius knew , that gospel might be the vary same with that of the Ebionites , as indeed it
most certainly was . —Jones on the Canon . V , 1 . p . 3 & 7 . After all , the plain question to be decided is , —f-Did any early copies exist of the gospel of Mat * thew , in which the two 6 rst chapters were wanting ? And tins uncontradicted and incontrovert * ibie answer to this question isj
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420 The Quarterly Review and the Improved Version .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1809, page 420, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1739/page/6/
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