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INTELLIGENCE.
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understand by he ? In speaking and in composition , it is not unusual with all men to omit the agent , or principal subject of discourse , if it be notorious who that subject is ; or if the frequent recurrence of his name cannot fail lo ncal the idea of him , even in circun . stances where he is only
alluded to . Thus the Pvtba&ojeans said and wrote , avrog spot , ipse dixit . It was not necessary on any occasion , to say that av ? oe he , meant Pythagoras . The writer , the subject of the discourse , the constant reference made to him by his disciples , were sufficient to answer this purpose . Jm the same mannt r , it was a notorious fact , that Jesus had shed his blood for
the benefit of mankind : and the apostles were constantly speaking of the generous sacrifice which he had made of himself , in this respect . On the notoriety of this fact , as sufficient to explain his meaning , the apostle depended , when , following the rapidity of his ideas , without any suspicion of grammatical inaccuracy , he said , 4 i feed the church of God , which he— he who , as we all know , di * d on the cross , —fenced with his blood . " We may see a similar
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Unitarian Fund . In resuming the account of the Anniversary of the Unitarian Fund we feel great pleasure in stating that we are enabled , by the assiHancc of some gentlemen who t < ok notes of what passed , to present our readers with the
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substance of the speeches on the occasion . We have already stated that upwards of Three Hundred gentlemen were assembled at the Dinner , and that W . Fiend , Esq . was in the chair . To that gentleman , the company and the Society are
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-c 468 Intelligence . —Unitarian Fund .
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instance of this omission , on this very subject , in Mi cab v . 2 . and it is observable , that for he ot the prophet , is introduced ( he terfn governor in Matr . ii o * . The varioub reading < -n this text , is easily accounted for . \\ hen the true construction was
overlooked , the impropr - n ty or the implied phrase , ai , rov Sreov , to which , there is nothing sim'iar in the N . T , was necessarily felt ; and even the advocates of the Divinity of Jesus , like Griesbach , in nvodtrn days , naturally looked out for a more rational and probable expression . The note of Griesbach , which has been deemed so learned and ' satisfactory , is certainly one of the most elaborate in his work ; but it only proves that he had more candour than judgment . In my humble opinion , notwithstandit is ine
ing the high praise now fashion to heap upon this critic , his reputation has far exceeded his real merit ; and I will engage to shew , that in the far greater number of those places in which he has mostly laboured to correct the Greek text , he has , as in this passage ., been successful only in corrupting it . JOHN JONES . . ¦¦ ¦ . ¦ ¦¦¦ ¦—¦ —— . —«
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1813, page 468, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2430/page/44/
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