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To the Editor qf the Monthly Repository . Sir , As truth never s offers by investigation , and as every discussion of the coaients of the sacred volume will lead us to set
a greater value upon authentic scripture , I send you the following extract of a letter from a gentleman in Aleppo to his friend in Europe * translated from the ( Gazette dc Marseilles , of Oct . 2 O > i SO 6 ; and shall he glad of the opinion of some of your literary correspondents on the probability of the fact , asserted in the same . '
I am , £ ir , Yours respectfully , Liverpool , April ' * 1 S 07 . F . B . W . WRITER OF THE APOCALYPSE .
€ c A very extraordinary discovery , . such as will confound a thousand systems of prophetic writers , has lately been made . The Apo - calypse , or Revelation of John , one of the apostles , has long been the subject of doubt and endless disputation . For several centuries it was not considered by many Christian fathers and churchmen as canonical , or the work of the inspired apostle John : even Luther re *
jected it . 1 hose who doubted its title to the canon , alleged it to be the fabrication of one Cerinfhv . Sj who was . coternporary with the apostles , and a Christian heretic ; who denied the divinity of "Christy alleging he was but a teacher , and his doctrines or morals only divine . C 4 The point in dispute seems now to be brought to a termination .
Some labourers , belonging to a email town called Gios , in Asia Minor , lately remoying some rubbish from an ancient edifice , and digging up its ruins , took np a small marble globe . They could perceive no aperture , and at first conceived it was solid . On taking it , however , to the Tillage , it was found to be hollow , but with a shell of thickness and weight , and was finally broken .
' There was found in it a number of scrolls or writings in the Greek language , bearing dates between A . D . 58 and 98 . They were most curiously done up , and continued in a perfect state . o £ preservation .
< They were foirnd to be wholly the writings of Cerznthus , containing his epistles to the Christian churches , and various dissertationsC on the paints of controversy then subsisting among the Christians . u These works appear written with great Sectarian zeal , some * - what indicating an impaired brain ; bu ^ fc the most singular of th& -writings is a full draft of the Apocalypse , in the san * $ handwriting as the rest , with erasures , alterations , and interlineations . In every essential piurtvcuJLie it agrees with the book now called tbv
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1807, page 248, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2380/page/24/
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