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reader to judge with what success . My object is truth ^ which I feared might suffer from the false conclusions and reasonings , if such they be , of such a man as Mr . Wakefield .
A learned friend has suggested that the true GFeek reading rnay be avrou and neither Ssov nor xvpLev . To this the abruptness with which his church is introduced , would be no objection , as by him , would be instantly understood Jesus Christ ,
whom it was not necessary formally to mention by name , to persons whose minds continually dwelled on him . Examples of t&s might be quoted . But whether such a reading could be established for text , I confess , is with
me a doubt . Perhaps the gentle , man alluded to may find leisure and inclination to enrich yoiiF magazine with a discussion of the subject . FRFMITIVUS .
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An early Christian Church at Rome . April 30 th , 1813 . Sir , My former observations on the
Epistle to the Romans , * were designed to illustrate the internal evidence of its genuineness . In conjunction with Paley ' s remarks , in the Horse Paulinas , and with the external testimony , they have long since satisfied me that it could not
be orfe of the letters which , a considerable time before the end of ffc ^ e second century , were forged arid circulated in an apostle ' s name , Subsequent Inquiry has kidded to | he s ^ r ^ ngthof jpofy conviction : and
* Vol . vii . 696- ^^ 99 .
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I am now more fully persuaded that the statements and inferences of Mr . Evanson cannot be sustained . However , as it is nothing uncommon for different minds to be differently affected by the same reasoning . 1 am neither astonished nor mortified at finding that I have failed to remove the doubts of your correspondent * O .
Whatever has the appearance of argument in Mr . Evanson's short critique on this Epistle , 1 have already noticed * For J cannot call that an " objection , " and still 5
less < c his most capital objection , * which is a mere assumption , which rests on the erroneous principle that a writer ** s silence concerning a fact > amounts ) of necessity 5 to a denial of its existence .
From the history of the Acts of the Apostles * it is evidenty" says the author of the Dissonance , &c . u that when Paul arrived at Rome , for the first time , in the reign of Nero , there was no Christian
church there . "f This language is at least unqualified : yet JVlr . E . instantly descends to lower ground ; for he adds , ** as indeed it is not at all probable there should have been . "
Now , we simply learn from the account given by Luke of Paul ' s situation and labours at Rome that , soon after his arrival in this city , he called together the principal Jews , and informed them of the
reason of his being sent thither as a prisoner , that , on a day fixed by themselves , he discoursed to them , wiih various success , on the evi-i dences of Christianity , and that he dwelt , two whole years , in his own hired house , where he , without molestation , preached the gospel , rv . - * .. 1 I r ¦ f -
* VqI . viii . X 93— XQ 5 . + and ed , 308 .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1813, page 397, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2429/page/41/
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