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bis ? ottri * > we& $ 0 BS *** 31 : ip ^ rmfewho thus wgw&& t&e Apostle elsewhere calls false apostles , ministers of Satan , who himself was , transformed into a minister of light ; and he says , in reference to their subtilty , " I fear , lest , as the serpent deceived Eve by his
craftiness , your mind should be corrupted from the ^ simplicity which is ia Christ / ' In order . to rectify the above wicked perversion of his divine Master ' s precept , Paul thus writes to his brethren at Rome : " I wish you to be wise unto goodness , but unto evil to be harmless . " . As if he had said .
" My desire is , that the end you have in view should ever be laudable , and that you should pursue it by methods consistent with truth and . virtue . It were better that you possess no wisdom , at all , than that you pervert it
to sinister purposes . . In all that is evil , therefore , shew yourselves as though you were entirely destitute of sagacity and skill ; but in whatever is virtuous and praiseworthy , display all the knowledge and all the prudence which it is possible for man to
acquire . A circumstance in this place presents itself , which leads us to the men here stigmatized by Josephus and by the Apostle , as the author of the doctrine
inculcating the miraculous birth of our Lord . The plea by which they attempted to justify this and other falsehoods propagated respecting him , was to deceive the devil . Now it is
remarkable , that this very plea has been adopted by the supporters of that doctrine in after ages . Whea the objector to the truth of the tale asked , ' * If Mary did really conceive while she was yet a virgin and unknown to Joseph how came she at that very time to be espoused to him , and by that means expose herself to
an unjust suspicion ?"—Tl \ e usual reply was , « ' She w ^ s espoused in order to deceive the devil . For the devil having heard that a virgin would be with child , observed the virgins $ therefore , that the deceiver might be deceived , Joseph espoused b&v who was ever a virgin / ' This argument , which ^ as borrowed , notM& is supposed from J gaatius , bijfc fafam ^ the &rat investors ?* the st ^ y ^ i ^^ iewptiWp W H now *• . ^ . ^^ ppg )[ II ) k ^^^ W ^ iq it * ita <^ ^ Mft ?* tlm »> H Fm * Mf&ti # 4 of m > pgmrp , tto i ^ rjase to deceive ffoe
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¦ ' ¦ rtT ' r * 9 * . <^ pSs ^? !^^ WfljWi VfflP-mc t ^ Tpnjpffly fffff ^^ JEfWH ^ y ^^^ LB ^ sBBgrag . j ff *!^^^^ ciple of evil , by rew ^^ g mSkt ^ ^ jr gtacles which it opposed tetb ^^ va ^ lence of rthe ^ gospk ? . ] Mv $ thte m ^ etjbc or internal signification being -in tinae lost ,, and the literal one only retained , the expression degenerated into rank nonsense and absurdity . , -: i . JON £ S ^ .
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Sir , .,. _ .. YOUR learned correspondent jPlr , Jones has stated . in yoijp last number , ( pp . 531—333 , ) that he con ^ siders ( xiMsa , Wt& as tbe true . reading in , Orestes , 316 , and has moreover remarked , that . " Porson ' s note shews
that he mistook the meaning and construction of the passage . ' * The Doctor ; I know , will excuse me if I say that were I to adopt Mr . Porson ' s readihg , I should also adopt his interpretation * and that for more reasons than one .
But the reading itself is false . If ever our illustrious countryman altered the text of his author unnecessarily , ( which he certainly did very seldom , ) he has done it in this verse and its fellow in the antistrophe , having admitted into them three conjectures ^ which answer no other end than to
break the uniformity of the chorus , by intermixing trochaic penthimemerg with a series of dochmiacs . This observation is extorted from inq by the truth of the case - , and if any one shall imagine that it is intended to cast any slight on the skill of Mr . Parson , he does not know the veneration in which I hold this prince of critics . E . COGAN .
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Sm , Oct . 2 , 1823 . HAVE remarked , with pleasure , I that your useful publication contains , not unfrequently , articles of neglected biography . In , the hope of obtaining an additional notice of this
kind , and of gratifying no illaudublc curiosity , I may be permitted to ask , whether any of your numerous readers can . favour you with information respecting the late , Dr . John Goltet % wKo , I think , once ptattifeetf , as ^ physician , fct NeVbury , in Berkshire , who appears , HEa some 6 ther $ f * h& ^ rofe $ 3 iop ,, ' ^ $$ W B M ^^ ' * ' ^ Sfoufe \^ 4 ft f ^ Mw # ^^ # d { wko , 4 my ^ e #% | io ^ be ^ p ^ e ,, fi ^ ve jjrpof . thutk k % m $ mh $ m ® w $ * fy * m with success ? ,,.- : ,. . ; .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1823, page 573, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1789/page/13/
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