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magnitude of the object and 'the arduousness of the service . If we are to Judge of the future from the past , a translation of the Christian Scriptures which . shall be at once popular
and correct is a task surpassing the powers of any individual , however gifted and accomplished : such are the variety arid extent of learning which it requires 3 such is the intenseness of the application which it implies ! It is chiefly , if not altogether , from the contributions of sound
theological scholars that we can hope to be furnished with a satisfactory revision of the Public Version . As the epistles of the New Testament are , confessedly , the most obscure portion of it , we feel a pleasure
in Pkilalethes having selected some of them for the essay he jnow makes : those which he has translated , are perhaps less difficult than others that might be mentioned ; yet they contain passages calculated to exercise the diligence , and try the ability , of scholars and of critics . Whoever
succeeds in givinga new version , which shall be tolerably accurate and neat , of the several Epistles to the Colossians , to the Thessalonians , to Timothy and to Titus , and of the general Epistle of Jame $ t affords a pledge of his capacity of doing justice to the remaining apostolic letters .
We congratulate this translator and his readers that his Version is from the text of Griksbach . He speaks of it as being chiefly that of the very learned professor : had it been altogether his , we know not that Philalethes would have been chargeable with servile veneration . His deviations
from Griesbach we shall notice and appreciate hereafters in the mean time , we must declare that the almost perfect correctness of this celebrated Editor ' s text i 3 attested by every review to which it has been submitted
Itice&sant toil , rich stores of theological knowledge , ailtl the faculties of & sagacious and discriminating mind Were employed m framing it . They Who have read his Comnientarius
Criticus , & € . will deeply lament that he did not live to complete a work in which we accompany him , as he applies the best rules of criticism to the various readings in the Gospels of Matthew aud Mark ; and weighs au-
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thorities , rather than numbers them . * There have been those who assailed his positions and deductions , and scattered insinuations against his editorial character , if not from invidious motives , certainly in a most invidious manner : but he was as much
the superior of his antagonist Matthaei in temper as in argument and biblical learning : and the dignity with which , in the Comm . Critic , he exposes many of that writer's mistakes , and repels his splenetic attacks , has not escaped our observation . Biblical criticism had a favourite son in
Griesbach : her decisions were made by his voice ; while on all occasions he was the strenuous and successful defender of her province and her lights . In the preface to his
Symholm Critics he also speaks as became him of Matihaei arid his attempts : and , though he declines giving a reply to mere personalities , manifests his zeal for the interests of the great cause to which his life was
devotedthe adjustment of the text of the Christian Scriptures ; * ' non committam utbona , quarn tueor , causa detrimenti quid , mea desidi& , capiat , nee , quantum in rne est , ut ad Machstrichtianorum et Whitbianorum temporum exilitatem res eritica sacra rursus
deprimatur . " Not that we would blindly defer to the authority even of a Griesbach . Biblical students and scholars should , as much as possible , investigate and
apply for themselves the principles of philological criticism . Our only view in offering' the preceding remarks , was to intimate that , usually , Griesbach is a most secure guide , and that whoever dissents from him
ia respect of the readings of the New Testament should clearly rnark the variations , and be prepared to establish the solidity of the ground of his dissent .
Who Philalethes is , we are ignorant , and shall not conjecture . For many reasons , to some of which we cannot but attach a good deal of importance , we experience satisfaction in not knowing the name and
situa-* The hrsl part of the Comiti . Critic * was published at Jena in 1798 , the adcroiid * in 1811 . It extends only to lh « tvrd first Gospels .
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570 Review . —A new Version of the Epistles of Paul ,
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1819, page 570, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1776/page/46/
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