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BIBLICAL CRITICISM.
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Additidnal * Contributions to Scriptural Criticism . June 3 d , IS 13 . M ^ vepkcra , fizior&i . 2 Kings , xvi . 9 . — " the king of Assyria [ Tiglath Pilrser ] hearkened unto him : for the king of
Assyria went up against Damascus , and took it , &c . " 2 Chron . xxviii . 20 . 21 . — "Tiglath Piles ^ r , king of Assyria , came unto him , and distressed himy but strength . cncd him not . "
These two accounts of the issue of the alliance between Ahaz and the king of A > syrra , seem tu contradict each other . The aid of
some of the corrrspcnderits to the Monthly Repository , is invited , for the solution of the difficulty . In the mean time , 1 conjecture that the real state of the case
might be as follows : Ahaz applied , for help against his enemies , to Tiglath Pileser , whom he engaged , h } costly presents , taken partly out of the sacred treasures , in his defence . The assistancef was . no doubt ,
seasonable and welcome t yet the sum paid for it was perhaps excessive . Supposing this to have been the fact , Ahaz might , on the whole , and eventually ^ be more injured than profited by his connexion with the Assyrian monarch . Psalm i . 3 . — - whatsoever } ie doeth , shall prosper . "
* Mod . Rep vol . vii . 696—701 . + That it wr , s not withholdcn , we icarn trom Jostphus Antiq Jud . ix . ia , ^ 3 , and thus n . uch may , probabl y * lpc icg / errcd from Isaiah , vu . 1—17 .
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According to the version proposed in the margin of an interleaved Bible of a late learned and
ingenious friend , ** it shall bring to maturity whatsoever it beareth . ' * By means of this rendering , ( and it has the sanction of Buchanan ,
Geddes , Sec , ) , the image h continued and preserved . On the other hand , there are not wanting gieai authorities for the present
translation , in defence of which , moreover , it is alleged that the clause *•* it shall bring forth its fruit in its season , ' ' makes the last member of the third verse—^ consider .
ing it as part of the metaphor , of the description of the thing and not of the person , —superfluous . But , in truth , this representation is rirst general and then particular . The psalmist begins with
suggesting a comparison : "He the good manl shall be like a tree planted by " the rivers of water , Thar bnngeth forth its fruit in its season i' * he next places in full view the most striking circumstance of the
similitude—And its leaf * hall not fade , But it shall bring to maturity whatsoever it beareth" [ both leaves and fruitj . In the case of many if not of most trees the maturity of the fruit
depends on the healthy condition of the leaf : and chat the original word , in the Hebrew Bible and in
the Greek of the XXX and of the New Testament , sometimes requires the sense of bear , instead of ( / , will appear from Gen . xli , 7 » Isaiah v . 20 , Habb- iii . 17 , anJ John xv . 5 .
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Biblical Criticism.
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1813, page 456, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2430/page/32/
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