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ToiAe Editor of the Mcfoflzfy Repository <
I am one of those , who wdit ^ ed tilth gPcar impatience , apdih a high state of expectancy , for thfe impmvedVersid&vf the Nezv ' Tes-6 tl
lament , br 6 tthe ' Cfrrf ^ fun C e , arid one of'diose , who , I feaV , are egregiously di&a ^ pohi ted . After reading ^ m ^ > ch # pfcrSj T could not help &m&tkfrt (> , that the fcditorfe Wire stViftft | eiy ^ % k > d in ' mafcl fog a i > i ^ hQ |^ tke }^^ yt ? aTho / liow 2 ever excellent £ e - \ Htsas ' fc mat ^ , a adaofar land a $£ il ~ inquirer , was in many respect trftcfliaJified' ^ 9 * transfusing inW ^ b ^ r lifengtiage ' r fie graceful simplicity of the sftyl&bf i
the original gl 6 ^ tt $ --OctejfeI r f do not i « tehd-Sit jf > res £ M to £¥ i tidise the . subject at largeYbiif shdH ' cotitont myself with ^ AnfeaWh ^ a few brief observati&fe i ^ pbiv the-first eight chapters of' Mai the \ vj *• ';' ' The introduction to the whole '
is general !} ' excellent . ' Tlie seventeenth verse of the first chajptA , iV clearly spurious . " The douWtful matter af that jand of the seebncl chapter , I entirely pass over . IrT the second verse of the thirtd ch&bl
ter I think the wbi'd wilderness bettor than its substitute desert , artd the phrase is at handy quite as good as that of dratceth near . Mere , then , it was a merely seeking r for something new , to mvtk& any alteration in the old versiini . In the third verse we should Vead
who instead of that and this alteitatibn we should itiak ^ in aU <) ther passages , whei"e the substantive to the relative is mart . Generation in the seventh verse , 1 think preferatrle t \> offspring- and th& wrath
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to come , or the dttprodchitfg tbftytJiil rdthe aifger mfiich is Mbqiit ' $ ? cdhie i dild Tklso prefet now dlsti the ax € y and hewn doum , in the ! pl& Version of the tenth verse to the axv dtso , an 4 ' tiit dotvri . In the
15 th terse , burn' itp is better * thaii frurWs ; and tii' tJie 16 th ligfititig *^ n c ( i % . 1 "" ' - lh ttie ^ fo ivt ^ Chapter antfftiird ' V ^ rse ^'^ kd w hen t % k tempter cimies o ^ hh ' e ^ riip ter having cdnie , is miit * e * agreed 6 te to the Wiginal f h '^ in ' tJie ytemfitef duke : ' In the ^ ftfe Vefts ^ , ii was iiilnecfesa ^ y to chztigp p ? med&h ltii ^ gfciti forth , fti ttife Igtii - ^ rM- WH / should be ^ of
i ^ hfinea ; irifeteia Twill . In the iiffli + 4 & i U . tf& w < > rtf Jesii ^ % tti ^ giHkl , tvb stould nof ^ Urfi- ; as he 'dHtktdy hx $ i ^ d $ Jcsits tva £ wafy&ig , or xvtilktil . Ifi tK ^ 19 th verse , I would say , follow ' riiey or rather come hitheir ^ f 6 H 6 w A ^ nei in
^ preference to comic after nje . ' In _ the 23 d versfe there was nbf ' oc ^' sUr si 6 h fbr substttutihg ffe gltid . tfijm '' - ingl instead bf the Gosfif , alitf *
heating is perhaps a b ^ tt ^ r ^ Word ' ttxkiV curing . In tlie ^ 5 tli « ^ crse \ Ve should read mqriy ^ ifokko i ^ iii * "' stead ox great multitude ' s . 4
Injthe fifth chaptek , iiwoald < idn « tinucJ the word blessedy we beitig familiarized to it as more forcible than the word happy 1 Poverty of spirit , as might be shewn in a note below , means the clii'ectropposite to a ' wbrldly disposition . * Fhal
before hunger \ in the sikth verse * should be rendered who ; kn& so in the 10 th verse , who drepersecuted . In . the 11 th veVse , we should either read all kinds . or k ^ eb tjo the blii
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STaiqxiyBu fS i Crpo ^ ^ j ^ p ^ ved of th ^ N ^ tr ^ , TSifTAM . PT ; " MATTHEW , CHAPTJE il ^ . —rVIj ^ . r .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1808, page 675, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2399/page/39/
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