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$ 8 ^ Estimate of Strictures on the Improved Version * - —Letter 3 .
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To the Editor ofthe Montlily ' Repository .
MaylZ , J 810 . - ¦ ¦ - SIR ,. - The Eclectic reviewer of the I . V . observes , that cc the unreasonable rage for innovation , in certain half-formed critics ^ but finished dogmatists , has establish * ed in many sober and pious minds a strong and jealous prejudice against all proposals of emendation . " Nothing , certainly , is
i&ore ^ common , than for men in avoiding one extreme to fall into another . « Yet , a great authority * might have taught the " sober and pious' ' persons of whom this
author speaks , that a zeal for retention may be quitfc as irrational # nd turbulent as zeal for innovatiiw . Among eyery denomination of Christians , there are mer > whose ardour outruns their judgment , whobc confidence exceeds their
learning . To none of this character ; pan the charge of being ** halJ-fori # ed critics , but finished dogmatists , " apply so w ^ U as those who , in tl ^ e reviewer ' s words , * pertinaciously contend for readings domonstrably spurious , vio * . late the indisputable rules of moral
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evidence ^ or make erroneous assertions as to particular facts of that evidence /' He thinks that u our Anglo-Saxon ancestors" were in possession of two versions of the Bible ;
the former , by Bede ; the other ^ wholly or in part , by our
patriot king Alfred . " But , according to Newcome , t whose accuracy can seldom be questioned , Alfred executed merely a translation of the Psalms ; and 4 C a Saxon trans *
lation of the PentaUuch , Joshua , part of the books of Kings , Esther ^ Judith * and the Maccabees , is also attributed to Elfric , or Elfred , who was archbishop of Canterbury
in the year 995 . " The reviewer ' s opinion may , possibly , have pro * ceeded from the similarity of the names ot the monarch and the primate ,. His animadversions on the
received translation , ins decision on its merits' and demerits , 1 shall not controvert . In this , as m subsequent parts of his undertaking , I meet with proofs of his reading and reflection upon the subject before him . Sometimes , indeed ,
* Xord Bacon . f HJst . Yiw of Eng . Bib , Translations , p . i .
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at the issue , as . soon as Servetus published hi ^ o ; xunoi } $ work , RestitiiticChris ^ i ^ nisiiii ; neither shall you or I be inclined to throw the first stone upon Calvin or Serve-
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^ , and place ourselves in their circumstances I . am , &c . CANDIDUS .
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ESTIMATE O ^ STItlCTURES ON THE IMPROVED VERSION OF Til t HEW TESTAMENT . —LETTER III .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1810, page 282, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2405/page/10/
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