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of a resurrection , would discover even the traces of it in this much-controverted passage ? We must acknowledge ourselves to be in the number of those readers whom Mr . Scott ' s " explication " these verses " does not satisfy . ' * It is not true that " Job had all alonir
despaired of a temporal deliverance : " if by deliverance be meant God ' s attestation of his rectitude . On the contrary * he appeals from the calumnies heaped upon him by his " miserable comforters" to his heavenly
Witness and Patron , with whom the record of his suit and the proofs of his integrity were lodged , t With what propriety , moreover , does Mr . S . allege that the manifestation of the Almighty in the patriarch ' s favour "is not said to have been a visible
one , and ** that if it were , Job saw it riot ?' The language of Job himself [ xlii . 5 ] , is , " I have heard of thee by the hearing of the ear : but now mine eve seeth thee . " And even should it
be granted that there is not the most distant hint in the speech of the Supreme Being of an intention to vindicate and restore " the sufferer , " yet the fact of his having been so vindicated
and restored is unequivocal ; though it be probable that Job looked forward to nothing more than the triumph of his innocence over unworthy surniises and accusations .
From chap . xxi . 30 , we learn that " the wicked is reserved to the day of destruction : " and Mr . G . assumes that the day of final judgment is here intended . To ourselves this exposition of the words seems irreconcileable
with the scope and tenor of the speaker s reasoning : nor do we find it vindicated in the translator ' s notes . The Public Version gives a singularly obscure rendering of ch . xxii . SO . " He shall deliver the island of the innocent , " for which Mr . G * substitutes , " the house of the innocent 1
shall be delivered / He is " surprised that this Arabic interpretation never occurred either to Schultens or Reiske . " Now though we would not subscribe to the infallibility of those illustrious scholars , though we admit the possibility of an Arabic interpretation presenting itself to our aunotator which never occurred to them 3 * P . 439 , ( 2 nd edition ) , t P . Vers . &c . XVI . lD .
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we own that we receive with cauti a rendering which , while it profes * to be the exact translation of an Ar bic noun , does not rest upon the au thority of acknowledged masters in the Oriental dialects . Hallett removes
^ the difficulty by one of the happiest conjectures of which biblical criticism furnishes an example ; if indeed we can style , that a conjecture which has the sanction of the Septua < nnt anH Vulgate .
Mr . G . speaks of the Rephaim , the "mighty "dead , in xxvi . 5 , as " the shades of the heroes of former times and refers to Isaiah xiv . 9 , as au imitation . He afterwards says , " The spectres of deified heroes were conceived , . the first ages of the world , to be of vast and more than mortal
stature . " This statement is correct Objects are magnified when perceived in mist or vapour : and the spectral appearances to which our translator alludes , are understood to have been so accompanied . Yet the mighty dead of Job and of Isaiah take that epithet from their former rank and power on
earth , rather than from their " vast and more than mortal stature . ' Upon the passage-before us Mr , Farmer ^ has made a number of remarks , which bear the stamp of his characteristic learning , ingenuity and care . He supposes that James ii , 19 , is borrowed hence .
As specimens of the style and manner of Mr . Good ' s annotations , we select his remarks on two passages Ch . xxxvii . 6 . " Behold ! be saith to the snow—Bb !" " A passage perfectly parallel in structure , as well as in sublimity , with Gen . i . 3 and worthy of one common author : and God said .
Be light /— -and lisfht was : the sublimity of which is well known to every one to have attracted the . attention , and compelled the admiration , of the nut literary critic of ancient Greece . ' " The full beauty , however , of the exquisite passag-e before us has never ww understood j and hence it has been rendered in an almost infinite variety of waft
and in every way wrong ' ' — xxxix . 26 , u " Is it by thy skill the falcon taketh fligM j That she strelcheth her wing- towa rds south ? " u u The description of the horse inW
\ Notes and Discourses , &c . vol . » . § Essay on the Dendoniftos . &c ( 211 , &c .
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176 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 176, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1758/page/48/
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