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    OUt THE STUDY OF ST . PAUL'S EPISTLES . *

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    The object of this work is to give the opinions , arguments , and doctrines of the Apostle in such a manner as to be intelligible to plain , but thinking men ; to translate , in fact , not merely the Apostle's Greek into English , but rather his sentiments into language capable of being generally and easily understood in these days * The author has ,, on the whole , succeeded in his plan , and his plan , as will appear from our subsequent remarks , we think a good one . £ If the peculiarities of the author's religious

    thinking be inquired after , he is a member and friend of the Church of England ; he hopes for her durability , but not if , unlike all other national institutions , she be immutable . ' ' If pressed further on the articles of his creed , he will say nothing . He has , however , said indirectly enough in his work to show not only that he thinks for himself , thinks vigorously , but 5 in our opinion , much more correctly also , than those do who are doctrinal authorities in his church . As the writer agrees , in some respects , with us in regard to what is needful to make Paul

    useful in the present day , as most erroneous notions prevail and most injurious practices on the subject , as we wish to recommend the work , and to illustrate and enforce principles which we think of importance in connexion with the reading of St . Paul , we shall take occasion to enter somewhat into detail on the merits of the apostle , and the means for a profitable study of his writings .

    Epistolary writing is , and generally ought to be , so much an easy and unpremeditated effort , that we do not look for the higher excellencies of composition in . a man ' s letters . It scarcely requires or admits more than truth in the sentiment and ease in the expression ; and those have almost invariably failed who have been ambitious to make the vehicle of their social intercourse an instrument of literary fame . Yet the letters of the Apostle Paul , while they do not cease to be letters , while they retain , that is , all

    the fidelity to nature , and that almost carelessness of expression which characterise all genuine outpourings of intimacy and friendship , exhibit passages which , in their respective kinds , are upsurpassed if not unrivalled , and those kinds extend through almost the whole range of moral and intellectual merit . To the cultivated mind , whatever its religious sentiments , of whatever

    nation , these letters will never cease to be a source of gra tin cation . Letters , as they are , the logician may find in . them specimens of reasoning which the mastere of his art have not outdone . The impress of mind is throughout the Apostle ' s writings—thought

    ? An Illustration of the Epistles of St . Paul , including an entire new Translation , By Charles Byre , Clerk , Trinity College , Cambridge * 2 volt . 8 vo . Longman and Co . - . - ¦

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1832, page 670, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1822/page/22/