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pose , Tbeuwfe of Lot is ? said to have looked mFTKDi " hoe eat , ' * ( I Im 4 give the Professor ' s own words , ) " ad serbain ac barbar& a post eum , scilicet maritwmswum , sive marito suo re too , ex vi , quam habet utriusque praepositionis conjunctio n cum alibi turn , Ruth i . 16 , ubi ViflKD manifesto significat
te relicta . " That Christ understood the phrase in the sense of an actual cfecession and an attempt to return , Mr . Pareau thinks is plain from Luke xvii . 31 , 32 , where he warns his followers , in the impending destruction of Jerusalem , to keep in recollection the case of Lot ' s wife , and , if in the country during that awful visitation , not to think of returning home—pvj iwtg- ^ ypdra tic rd 6 wl < TU .
In regard to the expression , becoming a " pillar of salt , " it is observed , that though no principle of grammar hinders from translating U'itt ( netsjb ) by a statue or pillar , yet such a rendering of it does not accord with Scrips ture language ; no where in the Old Testament is the word used in such a sense ; and the term employed in Genesis to designate a statue or monu ^ ment ( cippus ) is rOlfD . why , therefore , by the gratuitous assumption of such a strange metamorphosis , expose this passage of Holy Writ to objection and ridicule ? Mr . Pareau considers the word ! l > 3 tt ( netsib ) to be the same
as the Arabic t ^ yi * which properly signifies constituted , established , hence also a part or portion . Agreeably to this , he proposes to translate the passage , " She , the wife of Lot , became a portion of the salt water which then inundated the once fertile plain of Jordan ; " that is , as a punishment for her temerity in disobeying the heavenly mandate , she perished in those waters which then broke forth * and in their overflow converted the vale of Siddim into that lake which , from its water being so strongly impregnated with salt , is called the sea of salt . n ^ DH O > Gen . xiv . 3 . When she
formed her rash purpose , the low grounds were inundating , and safety only could be had by escaping to the higher country . Psalm lxiii . 11 , furnishes Mr . Pareau with a formula which he thinks supports his interpretation : it is there said of the wicked , tt'bjtW J"tiD menat shugnalim , They shall be a portion for foxes , i . e . they shall be devoured by them . I shall close my communication by giving Professor Pareau's own words in comment upon
the verse : " etfacta est uxor Loti portio salsuginis ; lioc est , in temerUatis sues pcenam ab erumpentibus subito et undique irnientibus salsce paludis aquu absorpta iisque submersa interwt " m .
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To the Editor . Sib , Allow me to solicit information from any of your correspondents on a subject which I was eaual fy inquisitive about in the Old Series of the Monthly Repository , witnout having my thirst for knowledge in any way
satisfied . I am desirous of having , from soirie one competent to give it , a short history of the formation , purpose , dissolution and present disposition of the fund raised for the establishment of what was called the Hackney New College . The whole of the proceedings of this institution may be said to belong to a generation before my day . All I at present know , or at least believe from what I have from time to time heard , is , that it originated in much the same sort of generous public spirit that now patronizes the London University , that it met with noble support from the rich and powerful
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1827, page 186, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1794/page/26/
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