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    has an article upon this work of JUauib . Bos , from which it nppears that Bos had not been aware that the passages he had found in Heliodorus

    had been noticed by any one before him . The remarks of JLe Clerc upon this circumstance are so just , and so applicable to the case which has occasioned this letter , that I cannot

    refrain from transcribing them . " 11 est arrive ici apparemment a noire nuteur ce qui arrive a tous . ceux qui etudient Vantiquite ; cVst qu'il a rencontre dans ses lecteurs la nicnie chose que d ' autres avoient trouvce avant lui sans le savoir . Schmidius

    avoit deja cite ces passages d ' Heliodore , dans ses notes sur cet endroit de S . Paul et avoit dit que G . Enjedin les avoit rapportez dans son Explication de quelques passages du Vieux et du Nouv . Testament . J ' a-

    vois aussi cite dans mes additions sur Hammond le passage de Ciceron qu ' on cite ici , et encore un a litre sans savoir que Christofle Sandius en avoit cite un dans ses * Interpretations Paradoxes . ' * ' C ' est ainsi que Ton se rencontre souvent , sans le savoir II y

    a des gens chagrins . et malicieux qui ne manquent pas de se recrier que ceux qui disent apres un autre quelque chose de semblable le lui ont vole ; mais ces gens la n ' ont guere etudie , s'il ne leur est janiais arrive de trouver , dans leurs lecteurs , ce

    que d ' autres avoient deja re marque sans qu'ils le sussent . —11 ne faut pas dire en cette occasion ' per emit qui ante nos nostra dixerunt ? corame disoit Donat , au rapport de St . Jerome :

    il faut etre bien aise que la meme pen see soit venue a un autre parce que c * < est uti prejuge favorable pour cette pensee . " None of those who had hitherto

    pressed these passages from Heliodorus into the service of scripturecriticism , had imagined any difference in the signification of the terms ocgirayfjLa , and < % f > 72 Uy | U , 0 £ - A . differeuce was first , 1 believe , asserted to

    exist by our learned countryman , JSllys , in a very elaborate dissertation , upon Phil . ii . forming a part of his 44 Fortuita Sacra , " published in the year . 1727 . " Aliud est a ^ itocyuuct proprie dictum , ut'norunt etiam pueri , aliud ( LMtaywot ;* hoc rapiendi actionemp ( jusra fZia $ acpcucecrivy . ut cx ~ pouunt Graeci magistri , illud quod

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    rapitur significat . " He takes nnri icr lar notice of the interpretation ^ Eujedin , and is indignant at the at tempt to elucidate the langun ^ e Vf Paul by quotations from a Work so " frivolous" as the ^ Ethiopics . " ^ ht mum , fateor , nunquam indueere n . tui , nee adhuc possum , ut crerlen ^ i Pauli h ? ec ex frivolo hoc scriptoex * plicanda esse . "

    I might here quote several other commentators , whose attention the passages in Heliodorus have not escaped , as , Whitby , Wetstein , Rauhel

    Eisner , Bengel , Wolff , Peirce , Wakefield , &c . &c . ;* but this woald lead me still further beyond the limits within which I ought to keep , and require more time than I have to spare . I therefore hasten to notice

    the last critic , but in my apprehension not the least , in respect either of talents or of learning , by whom the phraseology of Heliodorus has been examined in reference to the passage in the Epistle to the Philippians . I must , however ,

    first premise that the late Dr . Lardner , in his sermons on Phil . ii . 5—9 , prenclied in the year 1747 , but wot published till after his death , had

    explained tire phrase owir . r / y . , as referring to the humilit y of Christ , and as conveying this sentiment , viz . ct that Jesus did not earnestly covet divine honour from men , or seek to 1

    be equal to God . ' This opinion concerning the meaning of the phrase had appeared in various ] ' r . s in the ci Credibility , " on occasiou of the

    author ' s citing the testimonies of se ^ \ eral fathers to the Epistles of Paul ; and in support of it , the authority of Heliodorus , of the Epistle of the Churches of Vienne and Lyons , of

    Origeri , of Novajus and others , were produced . With this view of the apostle ' s language and doctrine , the late learned and reverend Newcomc Cappe , the critic to whom 1 have just now alluded , could not coincide ; and with a direct and particular reference to what was scattered through

    JLardner ' s works concerning this passage in the writings of Paul , he com posed a long , and to my mind , an interesting and satisfactory ( hsse £ " tion , published , with several other very valuable pieces , since his dea . It appeared to him , and I can harem

    * "Vide etiam Schleusn . in v . aP'Jfay ^

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    36 O . lllustratiuns of PltiL iL Q tfrvm Heliodorus *

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1815, page 360, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1761/page/32/