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    tersely / confounding th # cases , has brought out the ' following silly Conclusion , as a deduction from the premises of the editors of the Improved Version : iC Thus , it appears , that the history of the miraculous conception is itself

    something miraculous ; for it at the same time contradicts , and y < rt does not at all militate aga-inst the idea of Christ ' s human descent , " p . 13 . This is , indeed , vtry great nonsense , but the nonsense is Dr .

    Magee ' s , not that of the editors . But is this style of gross misrepre - sentation and sarcasm , the proper w ^ y of discussing a grave and serious question ? Is this the spirit of-a . sincere lover of truth ?

    5 . By a similar egregious mis . apprehension or misrepresentation , this : very learned Professor charges the editors of the Improved Version with * . ' adducing the authority of Lardner ' s name , in behalf of a

    position which Lardner has most triumphantly overthrown . " See p . \ 6 . I will n <> t undertake to convince the learned gentleman himself that he is under an error , because he is determined to believe

    that these unfortunate editors are always in the wrong ; and if they dojjot commit blunders , and talk nonsense themselves , the learned Professor will do it foi * them , arul give therri the entire credit of ; HL But that Dr . Magce ' s assertion . u as wide from truth as the east i ^ i from the we ^ t , 1 hope to make

    obto the meanest understanding . In the third chapter of Luke , the evangelist relates , that in the fifteenth year of Tiberius Caesar , Jesus began to be about thirty years of age . And , consequently , he mii £ t have been born fifteen yesta before the death of Augus .

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    tus , and no more , if Luke im right . But Dr Lardner has shown . to the sat ^ fatction of all learned men , that Herod died at least seventeen years and nine months

    before the decease of Augustus ; and , therefore , if Luke ' s assertion is cornet , and I see no rea ^ n to discredit it , Herod died at hast two years and three quarters before Chiist was born . All the

    circumstances therefore , which are related in the second chapter of Matthew rmisi be fictitious . The reader plainly perceives , that the authority of Lardner is appealed to for no other purposed

    than to prove the year when Herod died ; and it is upon Luke ' s authority that we believe that this event happened before the birth of Christ . Dr . Lardner did not

    believe this fact , because he did not give Credit to the correctness of Luke . For the same reason , Dr . Magee does not believe it . Neither did the learned and laborious calculators of the difference

    between the true and the vulgaif aera of Christ ' s birth , ( of which the learned Professor supposes that the editors of the Improved Version , poor ignorant souls ! never heard , ) believe Luke ' s account .

    They all imagine , that when me evangelist says , that Jesus began to be about thirty years of age , hi means that he was five-and-thirty pc six-and-thirty , or even sevenbnd-thirty year ?* old . This tkejf call using a round number ; and they impute to a historian , whom they regard as inspired , an incorrectness of language , of which any common writer would be ashamed . The Unitarians hope that they shall not be accused of 4 taking unwarrantable liberties with the sacred scriptures , " iie-

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    Replp to i > r . Mhgee . —To Hit Inquirers after Christian Truth . 4 p 5

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1813, page 495, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2431/page/7/