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    thieves , a cdttiparisdn 1 in # hieV | &rna ^; ^ was more thought of than any thing else ; these Worthy nien ' n ^ Yrte ^ li ^ g'tb attributetp tne Gftjek , as Hafdbuin does , the afcttitdl Crime ' tff'ftftbing : the Latin of ite title to originality When they say , " Mfe'diam L ^ ttnini beAtr ffi \ eronytrii tr&nslationem , velut inter Syttagogam ' et Orierit&lefm - ^ aitntis , tanqu&n duos hinc inde Latrones . medium &utem Jesutn , h . e . 'Rontatfatti not fix

    sive Latiham £ celesiatn ^ oll 6 eante ^/ ' It is very ea $ y to a di 4 lits ^ t adaptation by H&rdouinT 6 f this theory ' to evetyparticular botfk < 5 f ihe'New Testament , nor does'he in fact seem tacotite& ^ at ^ veiy ' bocrk ^ as Originally # rittfcn iirLatin P ; on the ' cohtraiy , 'for in % t ^ nce , * ie appears to sapptfge that the E ^ sttes of ^ l ' were Wri ^ en by Mm : in ' Gre ^ Vthotigh transited by himself into Latm , and that the Original ' € rreek is lost , the text ^ no ^ have being ^ a subsequent retr&rislation into that ^ Ingitage ' from the Batin . At Another time , it wonld seem to bave been his opinion , that the Apostle haft a Greek atrnantiensis who wr 6 te iii Greek wh ^ t the former * dictated in l&tin ,

    which ^ uppdsitibn , b y the bye , would account for the anomalous construction ' s and barbarisms which are ' brought'in proof of the hypothesis' of an original Latin t £ xt ^ subverted by a later obscure Greek Version . With ' regard to' the Epistle to Philemon , he admits the original of that letter to have been addressed to him by the Apostle in Greek , but hisivife Appia being , as he concliides , Roman , he ( in order to preserve the integrity'oT * his theory ) c ^ ncltides , that a Latin translation accompanied it for the use . ' of the lady ; ^ l t heor y which , as Michaelis observes , naturally suggests the ^ udstion ^ how the in&rried Couple , 6 f which the ¦ hiisbarid spoke lio Latm , ^ iiid the i ^ ife no Greek , conducted their familisii * conversation .

    IVfichSelis has very abl y summed up and replied to the arguments' of Harddriin , and so Rttle weight Was attafched td them th ^ t his learned tfartslat 6 r , 'Dr . Mar ^ h , ' thought it necessary to Apologize to Cheteader f 6 r not having exercised a translator ' s dis ^ retibn in < Altojge&ier cftnftting the chapter about " this dream . " We shall state as shortly as . we can from * that summary the mode in which fhe Arguments dn 6 ach side were shaped .

    J . " The Latin langiiage , " Hardouin contends , << : Wsts better understood in all the provinces of the Roman Empire than the Greek , and itwa 3 understood even at Jerusalem , since an inscription in Iiitin Was ^ affixed to the cross of Christ . " To this it is replied , that Gre £ k was , at ' SU- events , the prevalent language of Greece and Asia Minor ; - ^ -that the use 6 f Latiri in judicial proceedings might be a mark of subjection , but no prbof thM Latin was tt cu ^ rdnt , 1

    popular language ;—^ that the argument does noj apply to all the ep istles X ) f Paul , n 6 r to most 6 f the bther books of the New Testament , considering to whom they were addressed ;^—that Greek was current in Egypt , $ nd St Luke would therefore use It tohen he wrote there or in'Asia Minor , Pales ^ tine or Greece ;—

    2 . " The Deity must have foreseen ' that the Latin language would in dfter ages become more general , and it is therefore reasonable to ' believe that he inspired the New Testament in that language . " To this it is replied , that Hardouin altogether overlooks the Greek Church , and further , that this reasoning is to apply a weak , dogmatical argument to a question that is purely historical ; that no reasoning & priori can determine what actually h ? p or has not happened , and that 6 ur judgment'is tfltiCh too confined to draw

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    Original Language of the Books of the ' New ' TebtcmMt . ' 15

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1827, page 15, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1792/page/15/