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1 / some pf the Pojish brethren were the first who proposed the interpretation , which I have hum . iilv attempted to illustrate and
defend , I do not perceive any reason fpr rejecting it on that account . If I do not mistake , many interpretations of passages of scri pi u re of & much more recent date are
adopted by numbers in the present day , without making their novelty any objection . I was never bkssed with sq retentive a memory as the late Mr . G . Walvefield , and
therefore cannot recollect the words of tfcat celebrated critic , but . I am pretty confident , that I have met with an observation somewhere in l * is writings to this purpose , that some moderns under stand the
scriptures better than any who preceded them from the days of the apostles . I should probably have saved XDy ^ elf great part of the trouble I have taken in je-examining the
passage , on which I think differently from several TJnitarians of high respectability for character , talents and . learning , some of whom are removed from among us , though others are still left to assist us in
our religious inquiries — had 1 thought of looking into Artemonius before I began to draw up what I have now ^ written . Two persons njay happen to have very similar Tjews of a subject , when their ways
of treating it ipay be sufficientl y different to justify the publication pf both . If , Sir , this should appear- to be £ he case with respect to what Artemonius published in the l # st century , and what I now take
£ bp liberty of lending you , I may hape to see the latter allowed a pUtce in the Repository . , | f any of your read e rs should Wfnfc tjfrat 1 have failed in my attempt tb wrest an important text
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entirely out of the hands of the advocates for the doctrine of CnristVpre-existence , by eridea * vouring to show that it has no reference to that subject , they will oblige me and probably other ' s , by candidly pointing out where they conceive the failure to lie . I wish
to be ranked among those , who , though far advanced in life , profess themselves to be still learners , and to be ready to give up an opinion , how lo , ng or how fondly soever cherished , upon being convinced that it is erroneous . Youis , &c *
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—^¦^— — Notes on Passages rif Scripture * Feb . 1 st , 1812 . Ps . civ . 528 . " That thou givest them , &c . To this verse King James ' s translators have prefixed , needlessly and injuriously , the word That . Jt should have been rendered ,
" Thou givest them ; they gather : TIjou openest thine band ; they are satisfied with good /' The parallelism ' is compleat and beautiful , and is preserved by M . Mendelsshon . Nor is this
the only instance in which those translators have made a plain pas - sage obscure by their superfluity of expression . Ps . 1 . 8 . is sufficiently remarkable , " I will not reprove thee for thy sacrifices , or
thy burnt-offerings to have been continually before me / ' Thus exhibited , the declaration is unintelligible . Follow the construction and the order of th « IJebrew , and all will be clear :
" Not for thy sacrifices will I reprove thee ; Ai > d thy wbofe burnt-offerings are always before roe . " Here too ifc a parallelism : the
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^ 00 JTote * on gas&ages of , [ Scripture .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1812, page 100, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1745/page/36/
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