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to be recollected , came before * Rhadsimantlius butgurity persons ; and the extent of their guilt in a long series of actions was to be laid open to the public , that the justice of tlie sentence ' .. might be evident to . the whole world , as well sis to the self-convicted
offender . They were dkrissima regna ; but in them the rules of justice were strictly observed * . Whether the hell in the mythology of many Christians deserves that praise ^ I leave to the decision of your readers .
Give me leave * Sir , to avail myself of this opportunity to thank Mr . MfcIntyre for his very excellent observations on the terms used in Scripture , on the mission of our Saviour . A similar mode of
criticism will satisfy th < e English reader , that even-irrota imperfect translations , we may , by due attention , preserve -ourselves from the errors ^ in ^ vhich the prej udices of past ages keep so many of our fellow . Christians enchained . At
the same time , lestrrtjng may be made to go band m \ hand in these researches , and I would hot reject
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To the Ldttor of the Monthly Repository .
^/ z / lly 1810 . SIR , As your icviewer ^ Vttl . ¦ rv . 5170 hositales' not to sayJ that the I . V . is by far the most faithful and intelligible version of the Christian Scri ptures' in , at least , the' English language /'' the editors must oe satisfied , that his strictures
upon it are mtfde in the * spirrt of cordial friendship : to none of tiic- m do 1 object that they are app ; uc ntly or leall v minute : for the
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its aid in the minutest offices . As in the wprld of nature we are ex * citfcd at times by very trifling ob ~ r jects , . ; 9 ttk& the wing of an insect may employ the time of a philo-v soplrer ; so , in the higher studies of our Religion , occasionallyquestions of little moment may arise , q . nd the . gratification of not a . vain curiosity may soiBetimc ^ , lestd to ? thoughts of greater importance * I have been drawn into this ohser- ,
vatioiw by taking notice or a circumstance , which had hitherto escaped my attention , naxnely that the writer of the gospel , commonly attributed to John the apostle , never uses the plural word in Greek for the heaven or
heavens , whilst the other evangelists use sometimes the singular and sometimes the plural wdrd , with what I have been accustomed to think peculiar propriety * The explanation of this difference of style in the evangelists , would be very thankfully received by , . ¦ : ¦ ¦ . " 'Sir , . ' . ..: : ; . ¦ : ¦¦ ¦ i '»; Your very obedient servant ^ ; PHILO ,
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least weighty observation relating to the text or the translation of the Biblej acquires an interest from the supreme importance of this volume . 1 I . V . is -the--subject of a critique of w very different order in the Gentleman ' s Magazine for December , 1 809 . Tractent fabrilia fabri . Mr . Urban , skilful and diligent as he may be in typography and antiquities , i $ sien-( lerly'ticquaintcd with biblical and
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Ektimdtt of Strictures on the Improved Version . — Letter 2 . 177
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ESTIMATE &T STftlCTl / REfe ON THE IMPROVED VERSION OF TUB NEW TESTAMBNT . LETTER II ,
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1810, page 177, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2403/page/17/
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