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This is allowing that the tale was toot believed in the country where the facts are said to have
happened : and where if they had been true they must have been known to every man , woman and child : for the things spoken of were not done in a corner . A
pretty strong presumption this , that they never existed but in the writer ' s imagination ! In any case in which religious prejudices were not interested , this single circumstance would be fatal to the
credit of the whole narrative . But Epiphanius forsooth says ' , that the Ebionite 44 copy wasdefcctivearicl corrupted , " To which I reply ,
that the : opinion of so credulous atid' injudicious a writer , is not worth a straw . As to Ignatius , when mj' friend has provod the genuineness of . ' his epistles , arid has separated the sound frorto the interpolated passages , I ) iv iII then ' listen to his evidence . Jus * .
tin Martyr , honest credulous Justin Martyr believed the tale * but he does hot pretend that he learned it fr 6 ni the apostle Matt . thew , he . never ; asserts that it was believed by the Jewish iChristians , he plainly insinuates that ' . lnost ^ If not &ll x oi them discredited thfe account , » pd that > the Jews' in general treated it as a foolish story * , l :
July 4 , 1 * 308 . Second P . S .-i ~ A few remarks will be suf £ cient in reply to my worthy friend ' s lust letter . i , He-charges ifle with represent * ing the doctrine of xuir Lord ' s pre - existence as ^ irrational . ^ This is not true , if . by irrational be means absurd .. ^ % , opi ^ ti « l is ,
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that this doctrine is ' Unfounded and I have stated the reasons why think so . \ My friend thinks that f * pre - conceived notions have a
considerable influence upon our ttimds . * This " observation may be true , but it is irrelevant . The simple question \ s what evidence can b £ produced in favour of the Ariau doctrine $ My friend stjll continues to think his doctrine bv > th rational
and' scriptural—I did not flatter myself with the hope of converting him , or of dissolving associations " ccme nted by ferrty yearsi We b 6 th * state put opinioris and Arguments j anc ^ our impartial re&ders must judge b ^ iwetn us - k
My friend sees t ^ no improbability in supposing that ^ very system o $ worids has its inaWer arid vicege * rent . '' ' He * is for ^ gods many ^ and lords ? rn a ny . " r Bu ^ the argument must riot rest * oft arbi *
traiy suppositioris , "To os , tak « ingnithe scripture as tour guide ^ . tlierfc is but ofie God oven the Father , and onevmediator between God and rnan , the Ma ' n Cbri ^ Jesus . ¦ :- ¦<• > < ' ' > ¦ > ' " ¦ '* v ¦ " - "
I have said that there is not one instance in the New Testament in which the word ^ ( yrt okKOLi signifiesj to create My ^ friend replies ifc Let him turn td Hcb . xi ; 3 ,
where ! this woiyVis used &nd must have * that significatioh , ^ : This Jan ^ uage' i $ rdlhSdr peremptory aftrr aH my fric ^ iid'is grave iWtuu ^
against dogmatism / ' Byt let us loqk ito the' passage . * iVI . t * Wake-( i ^ Jci ^ a translation is , ^^ By fai (|* we understand ih ^ t the agt > & were so ortteted by the word 6 f GocJ , tbat the present state of ; tiling
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Sfi ® Jftfr . Bclstam ' s Reply to Mr . Carpenters Mtmarlk *
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* £ ce Justin Jtfafftyr . Apol > Edit . IThirlby , p . zfy
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1808, page 362, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2394/page/10/
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