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    very favourably of the unprejudiced character of the doctrinal annotations . Thus we have " the well-wishers of orthodox Protestantism , ' * the " orthodox Dr . Tittman , " " attached to the cause of Orthodoxy . " What is this but to give Orthodoxy a merit independently of any support which the opinions so named may derive from the just and liberal interpretation of

    Scripture , to prejudge the question respecting their truth , and to cast a stigma of heresy on those whose sincere respect for what they believe to be the sense of Scripture has led them to profess different opinions ? Brought up in the bosom of the Church , our annotator seems never to have admitted a suspicion of her being in error : he is ready to overwhelm Unitarians with the authorities and comments of those who were determined

    to support the common doctrine , but he has in no instance shewn himself prepared to weigh their arguments , or , by a candid statement of what might be adduced oh both sides , to assist the sincere inquirer in forming his own judgment . Our readers will be able to form a better opinion on this subject when ,

    in a continuation of the present article , we bring under examination a series of his most important annotations ; in the mean time we will offer them one or two examples , which would alone be a sufficient warrant for the opinion we have expressed . The following is a part of our author ' s annotation on the word \ vrpw , Matt . xx . 28 :

    " It properly signifies a price paid fo * the redemption of a captive , both in the classical writers and in the Septuagint , where it answers to 1 SD . But by this very word , and b y eptPtf , ( Lev . vi . 23 , Numb . viii . 8 , ) is signified also the hostia piaculam , sacnficium maculare ( Levit . x . 17 ); and in this latter sense Xvrpov must here be taken ( Kuin . ) - So ScWeusner explains , ' ut morte sua homines a peccati vi et poenis liberaret / We must understand Christ to have said that he undergoes death as a piacular victim . ( I Tim . ii . 6 . )" Now we can hardly expect to be believed by our readers when we affirm in direct contradiction to Mr . BloomfiekTs statement , what is , however , the

    simple fact , as we hope they will ascertain by personal examination , that Xvrpoy in the LXX . never corresponds to *) ED in any other sense than " the price of deliverance ; " that it no where corresponds to DttfN , consequently , that there is no pretence for ascribing to it the sense of a piacular victim ; and farther , that Schleustier does not ascribe to it any such sense . He explains it as signifying properly the price of the redemption of captives 9 or of any thing lost or stolen metaphorically . The means or plan by which any one is delivered from a miserable or inferior condition , which sense he

    applies to Matt . xx . 28 , and Mark x . 45 , explaining , that the purpose of Christ ' s death was " to deliver men from the power and punishment of sin" an interpretation in which Unitarians concur with him ; but he does not say , as implied by Mr . B ., that the deliverance was effected by offering himself as a piacular victim . We know not why CDWH is introduced at all ; we know not what is meant by the reference above to Cevit . vi . 23 , where - ) DD is not rendered by Kirpov , or to Numb . viii . 8 , ( 12 we suppose , ) where the same word is in the same circumstances . We cannot nnd the

    smallest authority or even pretence for explaining \ vrpw a sacrifice or victim , and yet in a passage of the same note which has called forth these remarks , Mr . B . speaks of Soginian perversion !!! Again , in the introduction to the Gospel of John , translated from the u orthodox" Dr . Tittman , and adopted by our author as expressing his own

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1827, page 59, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1792/page/59/