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BIBLICAL CRITICISM.
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ilejftts , if through the m ^ ditiin of your Repository , they would faYour me with some observations on the character and merits of these dissertations in general , and of the one in question in particular . I am Sir , Yours & £ .
QVJERO . IV . A Yotjng rii&n , who purposes to begin the study of Hebrew ., would be much indebted to any one of the learned readers of the Monthly Repository , if he would be so good as to state in an early number of this work the authority of the Masoretic or votoel points in the Hebrew language and the present opinion of the best Hebraists
concerning them . He would be grateful also at the same time for a catalogue of the most useful elementary Hebrew books , grammars , lexicons ^ concordances , &c . To answer these inquiries will not be difficult to a man of learning ; and the answers will be of great value to the Inquirer , who is desirous of labouring for improvement , but knows not how to begin , and is afraid of labouring in rain .
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Cur Lord ' s Agony in the Garden . Two Discourses . By the late Rev . W * Turner ^ of Wakefield . Discourse £ ( Concluded from p . 429 . ) Let us now go on to inquire , what we may reasonably conclude to be our Lord ' s intention in this petition : O my Father , if it be possible , let this cup pass from me ; nevertheless , not as I will , but as thou wilt . " By the words , " if it be possible / *
he doth not mean , if this thing can possibly be done , or , if thou canst do it . For , as St . Mark records his words , he professed , " Abba , Father , all things are possible unto thefe . But , if this thing may be done consistentl y ^ with the great purposes of thy unerring wisdom ; take away this cup from me / ' In the common language of the Jews , death was expressed by the word cup , and our Lord himself had often before used the same word
in speaking of his own approaching death . Thus Matt . xx . 22 . u asked the two sons of Zebedee , whether they could drink of the cup that he was to drink of ? " u e . could die with him £ hd for him by a violent death , such as himstlf was to suffex * . Sto
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Our Lord ' s Agotfy in the Garden . 485
Biblical Criticism.
BIBLICAL CRITICISM .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1807, page 485, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2384/page/33/
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