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onites in rejecting the account of the miraculous conception , and not adopt all their alterations ? Why not deny the other three gospels , and strike out the epistles pf Paul ¥ * My good Sir , y © u quite forget the state . of the argument .
The question is , Did any ancient copies of Matthew * s gospel want She preliminary chapters ? We answer thai they were wanting in 4 be . Kbionite , and * as Mr . Jones
%$ . y $ ^ undoubtedly in the Nazarene cgpy ofvthat gospel . This fact obviates an objection : and we fissign the reasons why we ; think their copies , in this instance , correct * Are we to admit their
judgment in every thing , because we think them right in some things ? What new logic is this ? and to what conclusions will it lead ? As a counterpoise , to the heretical Nazarenes * and more hereti * cal Ebionites , the Reviewer has
disturbed the ashes of bishop Horsley ' s orthodox church of Jewish Christians , which had passed quietly into rest and oblivion . Who they were , or where they lived ,
or what they believed , this deponent sayeth not . But he appeals to the epistle of Barnabas u a work , be says , p . 324 , written undoubtedly in the apostolic age , ' * for their existence and for the
soundness of their creed . Concern- * ing this same epistle of Barnabas , which is the foundation of our Reviewer ' s newly cestpred orthodox church of Jewish , Christians , the learned Jer . Jones remarks ,
that " it is a spurious , apocryphal < # nd silly book ; that it is selfcontradictory , and contains many notorious falsehoods ,, gross mistakes , and pious frauds , " of which l * e f > reduces many instances : " thai
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it was not even written by a , Jg \^ and was probably forged at Alex * andria about the middle of the second century . " Such is the foundation and chief corner stone of our Reviewer ' s church of orthodox Jews .
The Reviewer , presuming upon his readers' ignorance or indolence , appeals , p . 321 , to Justiit Martyr ' s Dialogue with Trypho , as an evidence for the genuineness
of the disputed chapters . " A * mongst these ( i . e . the objections of Trypho ) there is no reference whatever to any doubts concerning the authenticity of these accounts . '
The truth is , that from Justin ' s work , it appears highly probable that the Jewish Christians of that age , A . D . 1 4 O , had never even heard of the existence of these accounts ; and it is most certain ,
that if they were known , they were rejected by many , probably by all , as an incredible tale * . In Justin ' s Dialogue , Trypho , the Jew , scouts the very idea of the incarnation and the
miraculousconception , as not only extravagant but sill y s povov Ttaqcrfiofyvv olWo . 3 Lj { juevgov . To which Justin replies , that he knows that this doctrine must necessarily appear extravagant to Trypho ' s
countrymen , u e . to Jews . ( roi $ awoTByevzs v [ j , cvv to those of your race . ) But ; he . adds , that even though he should not succeed in proving the
pre-existence and miraculous conception of Jesus , and if he were a man born like other men , ( uvdg cv 7 ro $ , e % avQ gouTTcuv ) he mighf , nevertheless be the Christ by election . And he add ? , that thin was in fact the belief of some even of the gentile Christians ^ aito U TffAiteg * Y cyvf , our © wa rase ) to
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422 The Quarterly Review and the Improved Version ^
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1809, page 422, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1739/page/8/
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