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dace a single irisUnce ., Homer remarksof CaMor tinii Pb ?^ x ^ fr ^ x ^ v § £ ksKvy " / joujw idfo Qsow-tv , they have oblaiiied horipur ' eguhlk / i Htii % the gods , or as thegods ) that is to say ; / fey ar&so Koriottred a&M '' he placed on the same footing as the gods . Odyss . &i . # 03 * Batthe most portentous part of J ; M / s criticism remains yH to kb
Be considered , a part even more portentous than his , *^ ^ fobly true rendering" of mt u ^ itocy ^ ov fantGoci ® by was ? i 6 f ienacum $ of retaining . He has discovered a various feading in the text > whifeh is indeed . of the first-rate importance . ** The ^ wbrd &ma > yiA , a , " says he r iC . does not njgan robberyy but crpfizk , % omtffejn ^ in a / person's possession that is ^ festeerned v&In ^ bl ^ gf ^ iiol :
readily to be parted with ; ' * True : but in eVety eojpyi ^ F the Gr £ ek Testament which it has been ihy fate to see ^ the apg ^ tlfc itses the word a ^ ay ^ os ^ not u ^ itay ^ . N " ^ although ^ ^^ y ^ signifies prey or booty ; , that which is procured fr y tupthej * &U < xytJMs 9 the word employed by the apostle , signifies 'tpbbtrUy trie act afprocwr ' vng that prey or booty . J . M . tnay cdti ^ mt
Scapula ,, HederiCj , and Parkhiarst . Thus ^ aftfef h ^ viiig at dtitt inisquoted and mistranslated the apostle ^ J . '' M / trifil ^ i ^^ jtr [ y remark s ^ ^^ How admirably does such ^ rendering ( vifc ^^^ wftjr coixicide with the design of the apostle ^ arid how fofeiSly ^ ugi if strike every intelligent mind ^ as conveying the real leaning of the passage ! So fa ' r then is the passage , properly trdiislMdu )
frdni supporting what this writer ( ti > wit myself ) VvpiiM itiitl ' from it , that it directly opposes it V Surely yve live W ^ annus rnifabilis of criticism ^ no less than of politics . fiut ^ iiiiless I greatly mistake * the text in question riot oiily proV ;^ lH $ eduality of Christ with the Father , but likevvrse ( what ^ ii ^ Fiii }
necessarily follows from such equality ) his propel dfvint ? f Christ is said to be in the form of ^ God , and to fake upbri % im self the form ofa servant . Now , if the taking tlpotfMm j fte form of a servant denote his becoming a man in the lovJest vrder of society y his leing in the form of God must ^ by ^ Very
analogy of language ,, denote his being God : for what i ^ ht has J . M . to inrderstand the two evidently parallel aiid cdn % r < isted phrases ^ , the form ofGod and t lie form of a servant , diflter ^ btly ? He com plains grievously of my altering and mistepre ^ iitihg the common translation , not citing its real expressibris / arid ' ac ^ diicing as its assertiori ^ rw hat it no wher contains . It " i ^ 'tfu ^ , I have said that Christ was the pre-existent ci ^ eatdr bf ^ tK ^ nir-J > ' <¦>¦ . ' --. 1 -r- \ v
verse , when the apostle only asserts that air things \ vere cre&fdd "by ^' him ^ and that he is before all things : But few ^ e ^ ce ^ pt J . TVT . will therefore say that 1 have adduced as the assertions bftht New Testament , what it no where contains ; As for altermg
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1807, page 526, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2385/page/18/
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