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transcribers could not well avoid the passing *> ver some passage , which they , would be-unwilling to correct , lest it should depreciate
thiir manuscripts . We should not therefore reject those passages , which are wanting in some copies , unless they be contradictory to the other parts of the Gospel . I shall only mention at present one
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thing more . In the 25 th verse of the eighteenth chapter of the Acts , we read that Apollos taught exactly the words of the Lord , and yet it is said id the next verse , that Aquila and Priscilla explained to him the doctrine of God more exactly . The old version is evident * ly preferable . W , U .
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STRICTURES UPOV THE < C IMPROVED VERSION OF THE "NTEW TESTA . MENT ^ AUTHOR OF TtJE EPISTLE TO THE HEBREWS .
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To the Editor of the Monthly Repository .
sir , Nov . 7 . At the end of the epistle to the Hebrews , in the new Improved Version , I observe the following Note . — "This epistle which contains many important observations ^ nd wholesome truths , mingled indeed with some far-fetched analogies and inaccurate
reasonings , was probably written before the destruction of Jerusalem . — But by whom it was written is uncertain . Origen says that no one can tell who \ # ns the author of it . It has been ascribed . Jo PauJ ^ to
Barnabas , &c . But if Origen , the most learned and inquisitive writer in the third century , could not discover the author , it is in vain for us to attempt it . "
Now , Sir , without any remark oii the above clause , which I have distinguished by italics , I beg leave to refrr your leaders to a very able and learned disquisition on the
subject of this note , by Mr . Hallett , prefixed to his Supplement to Mr . Pence ' s Paraphrase on the Epistle to the Hebrews , from whence it appears to me , that the
above statement of Origen ' s opinion is not correct . This ' author
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says , ( page 7 , ) " Origen , ( A . D . 230 , ) the disciple of Clement , often cites this Epistle as St . Paul ' s * He expresses himself thus : c The same Paul , in the epistle to the Hebrews , says , In these last days 9 he hath spoken to us by his Son , &c % " In the margin , he refers to several passages in Origen ' s works , particularly , Contra Celmm , p .
143 . Mr . Hallett then makes a quotation from Eusebius , which probably the writer of the above note had imperfectly in bis recollection * iC Eusebius tells us , ( says he , ) that Origen wrote Homilies on the Epistle to the Hebrews , in which he
delivers his opinion thus , —That the style of the epistle has not the homeliness of the apostle ' s , ( referring to 2 Cor . xi . 6 . ) whereas this epistle is composed in pure Greek . It is my opinion that the thoughts are the apostle ' s , but the language and composition owing to some one who remembered the
apostle ' s doctrine , and committed it to writing as a scholiast does what is dictated by his master . If therefore any church esteems this to he an epistle of Pq . ul , itdtf-
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Strictures upon tie Improved Version of the NeiffTestament . * q ? 7
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VOL . III . 4 X
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1808, page 677, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2399/page/41/
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