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    « committing an error in wandering from verbal criticism . " No one can estee m more highly than I do , such attainments as Mr . Cogan ' sin classical learning , or be more fully sensible of t ^ valuable and extensive benefits

    that result from his daily labours in this department of literature ; yet I wauld not have such a man deern his time and talents improperly occupied in illustrating and maintaining the great principles of pure and undefiled religion .

    Mr . Cogan will , l trust pardon the freedom of these remarks , and in retun ) for the gratification he has afforded me , accept some information respecting the use which has been already made of the passages he has cited from Heliodorus , as illustrative of

    Phil . ii . 6 . He is not aware that they have ever been produced for this purpose . But as I am confident that he is an utter stranger to the vanity of little minds upon having discovered , a * they imagine , what has escaped the notice of others , he will be

    pleased to learn that he has been anticipated by some of the ablest scriptural critics . My time is too much occupied to allow me to do more than consult a few works which happen to be at hanci : it will add greatly to the pleasure which I have enjoyed during the inquiry , if the result should furnish a few moments'

    entertainment to any of the readers of the Monthly Repository . The critic by whom these passages in Heliodorus were first cited in reference to the language of Paul , was # . Enjedin , an Eminent Unitarian , and superintendant of the churches of

    Tiansylvaniaj , at the end of the sixteenth century . In a very valuable * ork entitled " Explicationes Locorum Vet . et Nov . Test . &c . " which has extorted something like praise even from Pere Simon ( Histoire Oik vprF 'P Commentateurs du 7 T . p . 864 ) , he has commented

    j * considerable length , and with great lea nung and ingenuity , upon the ber " ?\ the end ch . of the Ep . to to Phili ppians > and quoted the pasges in Heliodorus transcribed by aJk ^ ° & an > and another from the ^ Book of the ^ Ethiopics , " ov yX&yiJ'fr 7 * 0 * jfg < X'Yl *<( X , Qvfe SVWVQV , / Ai tm EV prSO-OJ ( 30 VhQfJL 8 V 0 * TtQQTUIr-J ^ da' Upon all of which he ob-

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    serves : " Quorum locorum sensu diligentius considerato , deprehendemus rapinarn ducere seu arbitrttri esse , rei vehementer desideratae et amatae po * tiundae occasionem oblatam ,

    avidisampere , neque pati , ut ullo modo ea elabatur , nullam moratn in * terponere , sed statim rem optatam persequi , et eani studiosissime cum summa Iaetitia et gaudio occupare , ea que perfrui . " The " res vefiementer

    expetenda , " in the case of our Lord , he supposes to have been regal power , as the temporal Messiah ; which he might have seized , without incurring blarney but which , under the influence of piety , humility and benevolence he resolutely refused to assume .

    Erasmus Schrnid , in his " Versio Nov . Test , nova , cum notis , &c . " a posthumous work , published in the year 1658 , borrowed the greater part of the remarks of Enjedin on the passages from Heliodorus , and approved of his explication of th ^ term OLOTic ^ yiLOL ^

    but would not admit his application of it to the case and conduct of Christ , " Hos textus HeJiodori recte quidem explicat .... sed non just £ ad textum Paulinum ad Phil . ii . 6 . applicat . Sensus promde erit : * Qui quum esset in formd Dei non rapinam arhitratus est 9 i . e . nonavide arripuitaut sinemora ad tempus aliqwod differre noluit usurpation en : i pi en ariam Deitatis cum Deo patre sequalis , sed ea aliquandiu seipsurn exinanivit , expectato justo tern "

    pore , quo pater ipsum exaltavit . Lambert Bos is the next writer , I believe , who availed himself of the assistance of Heliodorus in his examination of the language of Paul in this passage . In his " Exercitationes Phi *

    lologicse , " the first edition of which was published in 1700 , he cites two of the passages in the ^ Ethiopics , and deduces from them the following explanation of the phrase aoifaypcot TjiysicrQai' " putare aliquid stbi expositnm et sine labore ac temere a se

    obtineri posse et auferri debere ;** and thinks that the apostle designed t& assert that our Lord did not imaging that the power which he wa& \ to exercise over his church was to be ob ^

    tained without labour and difficulty , butj <> the contrary , sought atid ac ^ quired it by volnntary fiiubmis « oii « tm a previous state of humiliatk >* i aiia suffering . Le Clerc , in hi » Bibliottheque " CIiois 6 e » T om * ' xv .. p * 348 *

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    Illustrations of Phil ii . 6 , from Heliodorus . £ 59

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1815, page 359, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1761/page/31/