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qaestion whether he allows sufficient weight to the influence of disease and death in keeping down man , as an individual , to the level on which he ha * hitherto stood . Still , who would check those hopes of a better age , which tend to realize themselves ,
and to advance , at the same time , the virtue and the happiness of mankind ? Coid must his heart be who cannot , in some of the better moments of existence , give himself up to the in flu * € tice of the Lecturer ' s glowing anticipations of " ' millenial glories , *'
As a whole , we think this Lecture inferior to the preceding ; but its defects are more than compensated hi the ISotes , in which the author briefly discusses the theory of Malthus With a degree of ability that leads us to wish that he would take up that
subject in a separate publication , and give a popular refutation of the new hypothesis ; in so far , at least , as it may be thought to present an obstacle to the best Christian hopes , and to countenance war and the degradation and oppression of the mass of the human race .
This volume has , we learn , and as we should have expected , excited public attention , in an extraordinary degree , to the Course of Lectures which Mr , Fox is now delivering ;
and every friend to Christian truth must rojoice in knowing that multitudes are receiving' assistance in their religious inquiries from so able and enlightened a champion of 4 i the faith once delivered to the saints . "
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AuT * II *—A new Version of some of the Epistles of St . Paul , <§ r , ( Concluded from p . 600 . ) IT remains that we speak more particularly concerning the merits of this volume . Pkilalethes is much to be commended for making an accurate text the basis of his version . We have
already perceived that , with a few trifling variations , he follows the readings of the best critical edition of the Christian Scriptures . The principal instances of Ins departure from it , besides those we have previously enumerated , arc Coloss . ii . 13 , in . 12 ,
15 , iv . 13 ; 1 1 hens ; ii . 15 , iii . £ „ iv IS ; 2 The »* . i- 10 , ii . 2 ; 1 Tin * . i « 4 , vi . 4 ; 2 Tim , ii . 19 , iv . i ; Jaitvefc
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H . 13 , 34 , iii / 12 , * S * i& 4 i v . In a single case we bav ^ v-jfbju '' ^; ^ substituting conjecture lblr a readiu » supported by unimpeachable auilujl rity . f Yet he modestly sve&k * « $
himself as having adopted the allege d emendation . We may refer to \ V < t . stein , ( iti Joe ., ) whose inner margin presents this note , " o fcar € x « v ) ' % Kocrexov . P . Juuius , R . Vaiesius , " It should be added that the Syr . Trausl has the neuter participle .
Of the claims of Philalethes to the merit of faithfulness and perspicuity our readers will in some measure judge from the extracts laid before them : these have purposely been
numerousand if there be any individual who , on such a subject , condemns the desire of attaining the nicest accuracy , let him know that his censure is egregiously misplaced : To possess as exact a version as possible of the records of the revealed will of Almighty God ,
must bean object of vast importance : the translator of these writings then should be as scrupulously attentive to every part of his undertaking although he were weighing grains of precious
metals for the young- and inexperi * enced . Although the doctrine * of the gospel do not depend on the refinements of verbal criticism , ^ etthe evidences , the character , and , in many cases , the sense , of the books of
Scripture , cannot without this criticism be justly ascertained . ' JLet no man conceive that "his mind is comprehensive and profound only because it is incorrect . He who suffers himself to be ignorant of minute circumstances and particular facts , will never be master
of general principles : his pretensions are refuted both by the reason of the thing and the history of literature and science . Superficial and conceited , he in vairt aspires to the character of a f £ ttl osopher and scholar . There is un admirable remark of Dr . & » Clarke ^ J which cannot be too d ^ ep ly inscribed on every student ' s meniory : " Levia quidem lisec , et parvi forte , st per se spectentur , niomenti . Sed ex elenientis constant * ex principiis onuntur , ofmiia : Et ^ x judicii coi \ M * * T h * b < 5 # iimin £ of this w « e ' « ^ translated interrogatively by PhiMw ^ .+ 2 ' TUess . U , 7 . 't PrttfatV ad Homer . lHa <*
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5 # B tl * vitw , ~~ A niw Vtrsien of the EpUiles of Paul .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1819, page 758, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1779/page/42/
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