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< 3 od ' s minister for thy good . But if thou do evily be afraid ; because their power carrietb not the sword id vain , for it is the minister of God execrating punishment upon every one that doeth evil /* The
same assertion is advanced by the apostle Peter , 1 Pet . ii . 13 . with such similarity as could hardly take place , unless they had some fact in common , and well knovvn as the basis of their declaration .
The best and most effectual rne ~ thod of interpreting the N . T * is to come at the knowledge of facts from contemporary and subsequent writings , and then to
examine its consents in connection with these facts * The above are a few instances of the great light which may be made to reflect on the sacred pqtges , from the works of Philo and Joseph us . And , in this
respect , the late Improved Version , as it pretends to be called , has little succeeded , Your correspondent N . is endeavouring to attract the attention of the public to that work
by general encomiums on its me . riu If his > ability were equal to his inclination , the editors would have great reason to thank him ; but he would do more essential
service to that Version , if he were to publish n , few instances where the taste and erudition of the authors have really improved upon all former translations . They stood *> n the shoulders of Wakefield
and fcfewconae , and if thfcy have not corrected , many of their errors and supplied many of their defects , they can have little claim to praise .
When a passage depends on a faet ^ unknown or unattended to the translator having nothing to guide him but his prejudice or
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chance is almost sure to pervert it . We have abundant evidence to prove , that Christ and his followers were at first accused of beicg the enemies of Caesar , and that
this accusation was laid against tiiem even in the senate of Rome , by Sejanus , the base minister of Tiberius . Now , if this were the case , how forcibly must these Questions have been felt by the
Christians in that city . " What shall we saj ? therefore to these things ? If God be for us , who can be against f—Who shall accuse the chosen people of God ¥ '
As if the apostle had asked , What , though the great men of the empire , or though the emperor himself , acciise them ? Now observe , restder , how this passage
stands in the Improved Version ^ *? Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God ' s chosen people ? Shitfl God that justifieth ? Who is he that condemneth ? Shall
Christ that died , yea rather that is risen that is also at the right hand of God that intercedeth also for us ? " On this last verse the reader will meet with a very learned note , which declareth that " to intercede is a
word of a very general signification ; and though Christ here and in Heb , vii . 25- i ? said to intercede for the church , these pas&u ges lay no just foundation for the
commonly received opinions on-, cerning the iatertession of Christ /* The meaning of which is briefly this : Though Christ intercedes , we have no ground * to believe in his intercession ! ! This , I
believe , is a fair specimen of the notes . St . Paul , in alluding to the accusations against the Christiara , had his mind now fixed on
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On Acts ix . 31 . 305
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1810, page 305, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2405/page/33/
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