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To the Editor of the Monthly Repository .
Feb . 2 , 1310 . Perhaps the fallowing article ra ? ty upt be unsuitable to a Repository qf genenj literature ; and , as it has go intimate a relation to
the N . T . may range under the title of Biblical Criticism . Its design i $ , u to show that the present participle of the Greek language , without the article , when joined to a verb , and agreeing wiiji the subject of that verb , eve « r refers to $ . tipie simultaneops with
the t ; ime signified by th ^ ye ;" and cc % o apply the rule to the elucidation pf stupe passage ? i £ the N . f- " I think that this grammatical axiom is undoubted , and opposed by few if $ ny objections It may be said , that two state s or ty \ ro actions cannot be &trictjy
and metaphysically synchronous . But I conceive , that this argument lifts but little weight , because
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language was not forined on metaphysical principles . Practical exactness , if I may so express it , was all that could be designed by nations in their infancy , when
language was established ; all that could be designed by the rqas £ of men who , to thjs day , know but Yiiffe of metaphysics . Resides , the objection is not even plausible when urged against the simultaneity of two state * . It c ^ a be
urged against that of two actions ouly . But I contend , th ^ tt the time of the present participle , without the article , i $ the \ sa £ nej as f ^ r as tM i § pp ^ ble i # the nature of things , with the time of the verb with whose nominative
case it agrees , whether that he past , present , or to come . No perceptible , no practical , anachronism takes place * To sp # re you the trouble of reading a host of quptatioiis in
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1 * 90 Qn the Present Participle iu the Greek ,
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the authority with which he was invested , of the command that had been given him to publish tp the world the doctrine which he had himself received from them . According , then ; to the conceptions of our Lord himself , of the
evangelists who write the history of . his life , of the Baptist who announces his approaching advent , of the Jewish people , and -of the apostle Paul , it appears , that , to come info the porld and many other such expressions , \ yhichare applied in Scripture to the Son of God , do not signify J } is birth into the world , or his entrance into life , but his manifestation to the world , or his entrance on his public ministry .,
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purposes among the Jews . Once more , Our Lord Jesus , addressing himself to < 3 od , and speaking of his disciples , says , As thou hast sent me into the world , even so have I also sent them into the
world / ' What is it that he here says pf his disciples ? how was it thut he sent them into the world ? After they Imd been fully instructed in things pertaining to the kingdom of God , he sent them put into all nations to preach to others the doctrine he had de * livered to them : when he says of himself , therefore , that Gqd sent him into the world s since he
w § ls sent by the Father , as they were sent by him , he speaks of
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ON THE PRESENT PARTICIPLE IN THE G ] flEE ] EC .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1810, page 190, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2403/page/30/
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