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    h « v « preferred arid adopted * Hrs reasons , in this case , have now . it iV hoped , * b ^ en carried on the tvings of the Wind to the Limb 6

    dt&cribed by Milton , and the argtinvenfe of Griesbach may , as yet , be pronounced irresistible . Such Has ever been the fate of interpolations and corruptions of the New Testament , which pious zeal has Contrived for the defence of the

    drtRodox faith . ' Wit and learnftig and sagacity have proved feetrte associates . What must be ffc $ ir fate when they are deserted by leafning and judgment and $# g&cfty Tind even good manners &ftU fevery thing but what would rSISe'a blush On the countenance

    < $ Tthe veriest Tyro in 1 iterature ? ¦ ' ! 2 . Thfe translation oi a corrupt text is ? of srMH ^ consequence . But fhfs of Mr . Wakefield deserves 46 ftie t 6 nside ¥ atlon , because it may 6 e demonstrated tb be unwarranted b $ tfcfe reasons pleaded in its b ^ h&lf ¦ and because it furnishes

    a ctiriatisdlie to the origin of hrs predile % tion in favour of the Gtefc readih g wfiich he has adopted . ' * I refer rtbw to the last words 6 f the veVse , fov jJjou aijxaro ^ , whtcfa Me rendered , his own son .

    a H ^ re MrrW . begins to feel em . ba ¥ rdssmerVt , In consequence of his adoption of the reading (< 8 ) eo $ ) God , before . The church of God which he has purchased with

    his own blood ! He says very tru-1 V | ** ^ as this ^ xpressibn would ant ^ fef ^ iio good purpose , and ivould tiViaV 6 J ^ ry l ^ £ d ttibse tfnacduain .

    t ^ a mU * thefW&seology of those Jarigiikfej ^^ ning , 1 suppose , ffiA * yrtaiUtf la ( % o ^ 6 s ) i nto er . Mm& ^ asditWeg ; mi inipidus JSftmrft ! Ai ^ i ) f i ! ie 0 feify 5 I could tof ^ WjtF f ^ m&m h eiiiptoyibg it ^ WiB '^ kk ^ Kb tbfc pfa * Xe f /*! fvi $ b . ¦ . r t > % ,. . kY > ¦ ¦ - i ¦' , ^ i ¦

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    hibMn W , b ^ en reduced by re * solving to read Osof in his text . 'WeU ^ to prevent erro r and impiety , the words , rov iBiov aiflaro ^ must berendered , not bis own blood .

    but his ouh son . If is always laudable to endeavour to stop the floodgates of erroneous doctrines , and impious conceptions of the Deity . But let it be done by pious means and unerring implements . Of pious fraud no one can suspect G . W . But I fear he has been

    here sadly led astray by a too pious devotion to a misguided fancy . 3 . The quotations used from the scriptures to prove that blood mean * many are worse than trifling . They are contemptible . What we ' want is to see that his own * oi God * *

    blood , means man . Alas ! in what a day of criticism are w « born ! The quotations from classic authors and from a scholiast , shew little but that Mr . W . had read them , and could produce them . They are either just a ' s apposite as those from the scriptures , and prove that blood sometimes staftds for man , or they prove mtich more than Mr . W . wduld wish thdin ( 6

    do , viz , that the blood of a God partakes of the divinity ff 6 m wluidh it is derived . They would , in fact , demonstrate that the blood , or Sort , of a God is not a man . How careful Mr . W . was , lest impious conceptions of tBe t ^ eity should be deduced from the '

    expression , Gods own blood , in these languages , we have already seen ; it led him to render it , God ' s own Son . Bttt did itnever occur to him that , if in Greek aifra . or ( could he have found siich An expression , whith he has not ) ai / u ^ rou 0 * o < % wAs an accepted mode of dcicrifc-/ ' ' ' 3 ¦ ¦ ¦ ; ¦ t . i ¦ , j , J ; it ¦ $ ' . ¦ ¦ , -

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    ' Observations on Mr . Wdkefield ' s Translation \ of Atts xx . 28 . 3 $ 5

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1813, page 395, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2429/page/39/