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    * T and % &c . Lighlfoot and Sehoettgenius illustrate the mode of expression by many examples from the Rabbinical writings , Ver . 22 , pa )< d . Lightfoot has given various examples , from which we select one , of the common use among the Jews of this expression of contempt and danger . " A Heathen said to an Israelite , Very suitable food is made ready for you at my house . What is it ? saith the other . To whom he replied , Swine ' s flesh . Raka 9 ( saith the Jew , ) 1 must not eat of clean beasts with you . " Ver . 22 , yiwvav rS irv $ 6 <; . We have an example of the Rabbinical use of this phrase , Sohar Exod . fol . 50 , col . 299 , R . Chiskias dixit : Quicunque proximum suum vocat improbum ( yttH ) ille detruditur in Gehennam . With this may be compared Kidduschin , fol . 28 , 1 . Si vero ( proximum suum ) improbum vocat descendit cum ipso ( Synedrium ) ad vitam ipsius , h . e .

    capitis accusare potest . Sehoettg . Gehenna was a general and a vague expression for the severest punishment , often temporal , signifying no more than death , and , when applied to future sufferings , not determining any thing as to their duration . In the Targum , on Isa . xxxiii . 14 , quoted by Lightfoot , " the Gehenna of eternal ( rather perpetual ) fire , " refers only to the fires always burning in the valley , and is a figurative expression for severe

    punishment . But vie must not go on . We designed only to shew that our annotator might have advantageously extended his Rabbinical quotations , and this little specimen may answer our purpose . We are next called upon to speak of Mr . B . ' s personal qualifications for the arduous task in which he has engaged . For his learning and diligence , none who examines his work can fail of entertaining a high respect . Putting out of the question his numerous original remarks and illustrations , by which his scholarshi p and the accuracy as well as extent of his reading are abundantly manifested ; the mere

    collection together of such a body of annotation , drawn from such a vast variety of sources , implies the possession of very considerable learning , and the consumption of years-injiaborious study . That our author , as he assures U 3 in his preface , / nas spared no expense in furnishing hiraseJf with whatever promised to be , found useful aids , and no time in employing them to the best purpose , his readers will readily believe , and we should rejoice to hear that he had obtained from his church those rewards to which he ventures to put in his claim , and which could seldom , we think , be better bestowed . With respect to the important character of impartiality we must speak more at large , and we shall begin by laying before our readers his own declaration :

    " One thing' * ( he says , Pref . p . xv . ) " he must be permitted to observe , namely , that in the selection of matter , as well as in the adjustment of jarring interpretations , he has been guided b y the strictest impartiality . His maxim has ever been , Tros Rutulusve fuat , nullo diserimine habebo ; or , in the words of Plato , onr ) aiv 6 Koyoq a 5 < niEp wyevfAot ' f » j , Tonmj It toy . Though unfeignedly and conscientiously attached to the Church of which he has the honour to be a pastor , yet the Editor has endeavoured to preserve the strictest impartiality in adjusting the interpretation of all those texts on which any difference of opinion unnappily subsists among the various denominations of professing Christians . So far , indeed , from willingly aggravating the odium theologicum , he would rather sound an Irenicum to his ministerial brethren of every denomination , that Ephraim might no longer envy Judah , nor Judah vex Ephraim j that all ( considering the doubtfulness and , in truth , the unimportance of many

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    Review . - ~ Bloomfteld 8 Hecensio Synoptica Annotationis Sacra . 57

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1827, page 57, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1792/page/57/