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    martyrdom , is represented as using these words , 4 € Lord Jestts , receive my spirit . " This , it must be owned , is a direct invocation of the Jjbrd Jesus by prayer ; and is , in my opinion , one of the greatest difficulties in the Sacred Writings . That Stephen at so solemn fi

    a moment ^ and lled , as he was , with the holy spirit , should have prayed to an improper object , is to me inconceivable . To say that Jesus Christ vras present in vision to Stephen ,

    though , if the fact could be proved , it might be allowed great weight , seems to be cutting , not untying the knot . For , considering the time that must necessarily elapse , it is as difficult to conceive that the vision continued till

    the moment of his martyrdom , as to suppose that he would end his life in the violation of his Master ' s often repeated command . The following conjecture , if it should be found sufficiently probable , would remove the whole difficulty , and with all submission to better

    Judgments , I propose it to the consideration of pandid and learned Christians . The reading of our printed copies is Kvpie Ivjara , Lord Je $ u $ ; but eight MSS ; , one of great" antiquity ( see Wetstein in loc . )» read Kvpie l ^ tre

    X / u $ -fe , Lord Jesus Christ . It is certain St . Luke did not originally write both - , nor could those , whose books had ' tiivpie liprep have added the ' word Xptg- € by way of explanation . - . Ki > p * € I > 7 < rs effectually ascertains the person . Whence then arose the various reading ? Nothing will more naturally account for it than to suppose Kvpie { Lord ) simply , to have been the genuine reading ; which being understood by different owners of MSS ,

    to mean the Lord Jesus , some by way of interpretation would write on the margin the word Iqa-e , othtirslqcr e Xpi $ - £ * Subsequent transcriber * would take some the one . some the other

    expression , as they tnet with it in the respective MSS . from which they copied , into the body bf the text , and thus the Original reading would be gradually lost . Take away this single word , and all appearance of

    inconsistency is removed from a text which Otherwise seems not easily reconcile-£ ble with the rest of Sfcrmture 5 the prayer will no longer be ^ dressed to

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    Jesus Christ , but to the Cod and jp . thw of Jesus Christ , according to the prescription of Jesus Ghrist himadf ** When ye pray , * ay 9 our Father ~~~ J > This conjecture may expose we to the chastisement of Dr . R . 1 propo ^ it only to the consideration of cool and dispassionate men * who will n .

    derstand it , as the real truth is , to be proposed with all diffidence , and from the best of motives , a desire to turn the attention of abler critics to this , I think , very difficult text * Conjectural readings , adopted merely by way of accommodating an hypothesis , are never allowable , A worse reason

    cannot be imagined . Such readings , however , may sometimes be probable in the highest degree ; and if no other instance of prayer , properly so called , indisputably addressed to Jesus Christ * can be pointed out in Scripture : if all

    prayer is commanded to be addressed to God only , 1 he evidence here stated for the conjecture in question , may possibly be great enough , if not to justify the proposer , yet at least to exempt him from the severity of censure .

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    Sir , Claphatn . SOME remarks of mine , which you were so obliging as to insert in the Repository , [ p . S 56 J respecting the doctrine of atonement , have

    occasioned two letters in reply , on which account I hope- you will allow me to trespass on your patience a little furthen My friendly antagonist Mr . Jevans , [ p . 550 , ] if so I may call one from whom I do not know that I at

    all differ , appears not to have exactly understood my meaning . I will lay the blame of this at my own door , &nd suppose that I did not express myself clearly . Certainly , there are no things more difficult formally to exnlain than some of our commonest

    &Tid simplest ideas , especially when they have become encrusted and disguised by the clumsy workmanship of science , falsely so called . But I vras , I must confess , rather surprised that Mr . J . ( p . 550 ) should endeavour

    to express what he conceived me to mean in language very foreign to the style of tny letter . The error whtf * hfe Attributes to fcne , and which W combats , is , " that the teath &f Christ fe ftot t 6 be * 6 ft » i < 9 « rea as inn * " ** * J

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    ^ 3 & Sir * Barhain on the Doctrine of the Atonement .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1819, page 730, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1779/page/14/