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      Jared 65 165 Enoch 162 - 162 Methuselah 6 . 5 } 6 * 5 Lamcch ? 87 107 Noah 182 188 ( Gen . xi . Shem 502 50 Z JO—24 . ) Arphaxad 100 100 Cainan 135 Sarah 35 Salah 130 _ Eber . 30 ¦ 13 O Peleg 3 . 4 134 -lieu 3 Q ¦ " 13 O "' l&erug - 32 132 Kahor SO J 3 p Terah 2 . 9 179 1 S 78 3344 1878 1466 the

      So tjiat , ^ ccorflJn ^ to Seventy , the world is 1466 years older | han our version makes it _ to be . To what motive is this conduct o £ % h . e Jewish translators to be ascribed ? I am , Sir yours " trul " y , T . .

      P . S . It is perh « Tp $ put little known that the LXX . positively assert , that Job . whose sufferings are ; so pathetically described in Scripture , > vas tbe ^ on of Zare ot Bosorrah ( ' Zerah of l 3 o&rah ) and succeeded Bal ^ k ( Bela ) as king of-Kdom . If so , he must have been the same wkh Jobab who is mentioned Gen . xxxvi . 33 . Different opinions have been entertained as to the meaning of that striking passage , Job ?(\ x * 25—27 . But does not the context favour the idea , that if is t (> be-understood as expressing a tiill assurance pf the future vindication of Jiis character , rather than as referring-tp the restoration of

      his former prosperity , or fco a resurrection from death ? The \ yrit ^ T of this has long had by him ( but from what book extracted , be cannot now recollect ) the following Latin version of the passage ; " Vivit , scio enim t causae itiea * . patronusf Qui contemptus in pulverc jacc * f » victor caput attollot . Hpsrebo adkuc in cute , dird hac vi contusa : Ex hac cuticula videbo Deum ; quern hisce oculis cernam animo non alienatum . " C . Dav . Ilgen . Some of your learned covres ^ pendents can probably inform him where it is to be found .

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      TRANSLATION OF III , JOHX , 2 ,

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      This versp stands as follows in our Kngiish translation : At Beloved , I wish above all things , that ihou mayest prosper * and be

      in health , even as thy soul prospereth . ' But I was lately informed that , in the opinion of a gentleman ^ much of whose tims

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      43 S TrQnslaliqn of iii . John ^ % .

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    • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1808, page 438, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2395/page/38/