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lion , has been again and again exposed ; and , in confutation of the whole of it , stiess is rightly laid on those passages which
represent Jesus as being made to us what he is , and as deriving his excellencies , endowments and prerogatives , from the One Infinite Source of power , grace and wisdom *
That spirit of Jesus which , on some occasions , restrained , and , on others , prompted his apostles , was the spirit communicated at the request and by the instrumentality of Jesus . On the rest of
the texts quoted by the critic , I remark , in the language of Bishop Hurd , * that * the word Christ is frequently used in the apostolic writings for the doctrine of Christ . "
u must be confessed , " observes the E . R . " that , upon the testimony of Jerom and Epiphanius , there is some defect in the external evidence for the portions
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TO THE biSTRIBUJTORS OF BIBLES AND TESTAMENTS .
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Honoured Gentlemen , Nothing is perfect in our world . You know , that almost all the New Testament was originally written in the Greek language ,
and the copies of it multiplied , for about fifteen centuries , by the pen , and not by the press . As this was the case , many errors would unavoidably get into the text . And this we know to be
the fact , as there are many different readings in the best MS copies now extant . It is well known to the learned , of different denominations of
Christians , that the printed copy f the Greek Testament , which
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[ the introductory chapters ] of Matthew and Luke . There arfc , also , certain other difficulties from chronology , history and internal evidences , which we cannot i * e « gard as inconsiderable / ' Here he writes with abundantly more diffidence and candour than the
majority of the advocates of the popular theology ; and his diffidence and candour are honourably presumptive of his extent of information and diligence of inquiry . Men of ignorance , men averse from discussion and
examination , are almost invariably finished dogmatists , ' and uncharitable zealots . I venture , Sir , to ask your indulgence , and that of your readers , for one letter more , which
will complete the series of communications thus offered to you by Yours , &c . N .
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our English Testament is a f ratislation of , was indirectly compiled from a very few Greek MSS , and those , generally , not of the most perfect kind . This was done
about the year 1621 . < c Since that time , upwards of , three hundred MSS . of the whole , or different parts of the New Testament ^ have been collated by learned men with much care , industry ahd skill / ' Of these MSS . some
are of far greater antiquity and authority than any of those upon which the received text is founded , two only excepte d ^ From these MSS . a vast number of various readings have been
* Lectures oa Froph , vol . H , p . n . ( 4 th cdj
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Letter to the Distributors of Bibles and Testaments : 285
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1810, page 285, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2405/page/13/
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