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£ 52 Leaves of Antiquity * from the German of Herder *
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of ver . 8 , with a part of the 17 th verse , and affirms them to be the words of Jesus Christ , and that in them , Jesus Christ declares himself to be the Almighty . I observed that the terms " alpha and omega , the first and the last , " ' were applied to the divine
Being in an absolute sense , and to Jesus Christ in a relative sense . This the clergyman calls a quibble . I attempted to illustrate the observation , and also to prove by the most clear and direct
evidence , that appellations said to belong exclusively to the divine Being , are nevertheless applied in the scriptures to mere men . This illustration , and this proof , are likewise entirely suppressed by the clergyman . Is an observation answered or refuted by calling it a Quibble ^ while the evidence by which its tiuth is supported ^
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is studiously kept out of sight ? I shall not conclude this reply , like the clergyman , with a sweeping ^ clause containing charges of * daring misquotations , &c . &c . "
unaccompanied by any evidence of their truth ; fully persuaded , that enough has been said , to make those charges recoil upon the head of him by whom they are exhibited with accumulated
weight . I leave unnoticed tho cause he assigns for not answering rny other two letters , from a conviction , that no one , can believe it to be the true one .
I beg pardon , Mr . Editor , for obtruding upon your patience and that of yotfx readers so long a reply to the clergyman ' s second letter * And am vour ' s , J . M ,
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BLAETTER DER VORZEIT , OR LEAVES OF A ^ TIQUltY * 'FR 03 S THE GERMAN OJF HERDER .
These poetic fictions , were published by Herder , in his w 4 Scattered Leaves . " They are thus introduced by him # 44 I met with the ' fictions
from oriental legends / in a way in which I should not have sought lor them ; principally hi the study of the oriental languages * in their tales and commentaries . Mere I often met with an image $ a simile , a fiction , which was to me , what the juniper bush was to the
prophet in the wilderness ; a poor shrub in itself , but it gave him shade and strengthened him . Or , to speak without image , 1 often found in the oriental legends , absurd as they frequently appear ,
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ideas so poetical j that they seemed to solicit a better execution ; and it was hard for me not to extract them , andj in my leisure hours , give them a new form according
to rny taste * Let no one confound these fictions with the histories of the bible \ tfiey are thoroughly apocryphal ; either ancient fables of various oriental people , or plants which have sprung from seeds of that kind . Their execution is almost
entirely mine ; but few are left , as they stand in the tradition . ( For instance , Abraham ' s childhoodand the staff of the prophet . ) But all are founded in legends , and the more they rest on such lo
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1808, page 252, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2392/page/24/
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