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sense as those who believe that Jesus Christ had no existence before he was born of his mother Mary . " Undoubtedly they are ; yet ought they to acknowledge
this gentleman s courtesy or rather justice , in admitting their right to this appellation , as it is by some applied exclusively to those who believe that Jesus Christ had
no existence before he appeared in this world . I have nothing to say concerning the truth or error of the doctrines controverted by Mr . Belsham . My sole motive for these
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J . M . ' S REPLY TO THfe CLERGYMAN Otf THfe DIVINITY OP CHRIST . LETTER III . . — - — 0-To the JLditor of the Monthly Repository .
Sir , Nov . 12 , 1807-I proceed to notice the clergyman ' s second , letter in reply to my observations ' ori his remarks on Mr . Stone ' s sermon . On 1 Tim . iii . 16 , I charge the clergyman with a perversion of the clause referred to by a false ' citation of it as it stands in the present translation . By his passing this over in perfect silence the charge is admitted to be true .
In answer to the question , " Does ] ie not know that the word &so $ is not tp . fce found in . any Greejk copy before the fourth or fifth century ? " He only produces a sentence from Ignatius which he s uppose ? to refer ^ to this passage , and another from the Apostolical Constitutions , the authority of which , by whom , and when wrijtte ty is &t least extremely doubt-• In loco . f
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animadversions is to represent -the unfairness of holding up a set of men to the public eye , as actuated by such disingenuous and unworthy motives as Mr . Bel sham ascribes to ¦ - them . While he
confined his charge against them : to weakness , prejudice , &c . it might be borne in srtence , but when their integrity is attacked , it is incumbent upon them to
repel it . I am , Sir , Your humble Servant , ancj constant Reader ,
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ful . ce That it was cited or alluded to in the Arian controversy , " he doe * hot pretend , nor has he attempted to refute any thing that Sir Isaac Newton has advanced to prove it to be , an interpolation .
" I freely own / ' say $ the clergyman , " that I have never heard of any such rendering as 6 , which he ( J . M . ) says has been demonstrated to be the true one . ' ' . Has he never read Grotius ,. who , as cited by Dr . Whitby * , says , " Tho Latin , Syriac , Arabic versions , and St , Ambrose , al ) read , the
mystery which was revealed in the flesh , which giv ^ s us reason to suspect the other reading ? '" Ha * he never seen J ^ r . Clarke , who says on this pas ^ ag < t > 6 < 1 ^ has
been a great com troy fcrsy among learned men , whether [< 3 > so * J or Script . Doct . of Trinity , p . 88 ,
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J . 3 ISs Reply to the Clergyman on the Divinity of Christ . 135
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1808, page 135, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2390/page/15/
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