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cording to the apostle ' s phrase ) u free course and being glorified ;" on which , in respect to the futurities of another life , all our hope * are ultimately founded . Two in *
stances of this sort occur in your last number , which I have just received . Mr . M'Jntyre gives a similar solution of the import of the phrases , u coining into the world , " f being sent down from
heaven /* &c . with Mr * Cappe ; and as it does not appear that he has seen the Dissertations , it supplies the independent testimony of another able and ingenious cru tic , to the soundness of the
general principles on which it is founded . The express meaning indeed of these phrases , is > not particularly examined in the Dissertations ^ but they are quoted as referring , not to the birth of
Christ , but to the commencement of his public ministry , in illustra - tion of the interpretation there given of somewhat similar phraseology in the proem , of John ' s
gospel ; particularly in notes ( c ) and ( p ) vol . i . pp . 22 , 37 , SO . It happens ) however , that I have among Mr . Cappe * s papers , a
particular examination of these very phrases , leading to the same result as that deduced by Mr . M Intyre . which I will endeavour
to arrange and transcribe , if you will have the goodness to insert it , in a future number , for his satisfaction , and for that , as I also hope , of many others of your readers .
The learned and ingenious paper signed " Geron /' is the second instance to which I refer , of objection * formed by other mind * to
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that hypothesis of the Temptation , which has probably hitherto , as he justly observes , been con * sidered as the least objection % ble . I am not competent to say , what
were the grounds on which Mr * Cappe was led ty differ so entirely from Mrv Farmer , but I know he was a writer sp highly esteemed by him , that he would not have done it lightly . It was his usual
method in scriptural research , not only to state the final result of his unwearied , patient and diligent investigation , but to state the reasons which led to it , ' not so much , however , with reference
to any pre-established opinions * as to the simple developprnent of that interpretation which appear * ed to harmonize most completely with the manners , customs , and phraseology of the times ; with the actual circumstances of the
Jewish , people , their erroneous expectations and unfounded prejudices ; together with the character views and objects of the several , speakers 01 : writeys ; bitt except in its agreement with
Jewish phraseology , and vvi $ i the particular views of the narrator , much light could not be thrown from these sources on the subject in question .- —The notes affixed to the Life of Christ , which I have
lately published , are deduced from the same principles ; and , if they should not contribute to its present popularity , they will * I hope , eventually ensure its future more extensive usefulness .
I am , Sir , with great esteem , Your much obliged servant , CATH , CAPPBL
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Mrs . Cappe , on Mr . Cappe ' s Interpretations . lit
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1810, page 119, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2402/page/15/
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