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tain ' s vessel in that ikr-famed voyage , was celebrated , we know , for speed . * We have no pleasure in detecting and exposing the mistakes of the
worthy annotator . Yet our readers should be informed that his imagination often triumphs over his judgment , and that he too easily beholds Pagan as well as Rabbinical mythologies in this ancient poem .
Let us next attend to some of his remarks upon ch . xiv . 12 , &c . " It has been a subject of dispute among tbe commentators , whether Job , in the present place , refers to a definite term in which a resurrection will take place , or
denies it by the strongest figure he could command . Yet I think the latter part of the sentence , in vers . 14 , 15 , is so strongly in favour of the former opinion , that no man can refuse his assent to it , who gives it the attention it is entitled to : nor do I
well know how a full persuasion of such a belief could be more definitely drawn up . It appears to me so strojig * as to settle the question of itself , and without the concurrence of other passages that might be called in to its aid . '
It would seem i : hen that , in Mr . Good ' s judgment , the doctrine of a resurrection is < c definitely '' taught in this book , instead of being only developed ! Yet in the sentences just quoted , he has -done nothing more than express the confidence of his own persuasion , without the use of reasoning to illustrate its -soundness and to vindicate it
from objections , Heath ( not . in loc . ) is equally confident on the other side : and Rosenmuller considers the 14 th and 15 th verses as referring to the catastrophe of the poem : " hie spectatur taciteque innuitur historic exitus . * In the first instance Job wishes
to be concealed in the grave ( 13 ) , till the storm of the divine anger be past . However , he immediately corrects himself ; apprehensive ( 14 ) that , if he die , he shall not live again . In consequence , he determines upon wau > ing till God shall appear ( 15 ) in his behalf .
The learned and very able author t * Euripid . Medeea . 1 . 1 . f The | tev . Charles Peters , A . M . Rector of St . Mabyn , Cornwall . His " Dissertation , ' which every theoloerical student
ought to read , is characterized by erudition , piety and acuteness . In a recent number of one x > f the monthly publications inquiries are made concerning- the place of his birth . &c . We lament tbat we cannot
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of the " Critical Dissertation on the Book of Job , " interprets the verse * in the same manner with Mr . G . f } e thus paraphrases vers . 7—n : « ^ ter a tree is cut down , we see , neve * . theless , the old stock flourish again and send forth new branches : an ( j shall man then , when he once expires be extinct for ever ? Is there no hope that he shall revive , and be raised again hereafter ? " 187 . 1
Accordingto this paraphrase , Job reasons from the renewal of vegeta - tion in the spring , to the resurrection of the human body : expectation prevails over doubt in the speaker ' s mind ; and he institutes a comparison rather than a contrast . We think , however , that King James ' s translabors have accurately rendered the particle at the beginning of the tenth verse by a word denoting opposition : " But man dieth , " &c . It is remark
able , too , that in those supposed analogies of nature , which many Christian writers consider as presumptive of the doctrine of a resurrection , the Heathen poets saw nothing which was thus animating and consolatory , but the reverse . !
Concerning xvi . 18 , " hide no Wood shed by me , " Mr . G . affirms , " Tfc passage has an evident reference to the cry of the blood of Abel from the earth / ' Gen . iv . 10 . This gentleman must excuse us if we say that , whenever he speaks of
gratify them : all that we know of him i « , that he passed his life in retirement , yet very usefully and respectably , and that * volume of his sermons , well calculated for country congregations , is before the world . War burton , with most unjustifiable contemptstyled him the Cornish Critic : and
, Bishop Lowth more than intimates that Peters gave Warburton a Cornish hugl " which if a man has once felt it to the purpose , he will be sore of as long" as he lives-Letter , &c . by a late I ' rofessor , pp . 23 , 24 .
( Note . ) X Contrast the declamation of Min « clU § Felix ( Octavius . xxxiv . ) — " Vide adeo quam in solatium nostri , resurrection ^ futurain oinnis natura meditetur , * , expectandum nobis etiam corporis ver —with the well-known plaintive strains o Moschus ( Idyll , iii . 104—112 ) . The tor * of this imagined analog-y , has beea a J estimated in a sermon on " The w ^ . sity of Revelation to teach the Do £ r Y of a Future Life / ' by John Kenrick , »• pp . 14—47 ( 2 nd , Ed . ) .
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174 Review . —Good's Translation of the Book of Job .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1815, page 174, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1758/page/46/
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