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wtfj / taMft / jp « frf * &n i * pmmen 4 < A « d though ) tie t ^ fors to E ^ i phaiiius ' s work * k $ Ju 4 ici&& $ l y abstains from citing the chapter . -T-hirctyy i he . states that it is " a matter of tfo importance / ' whether this return took place at the end of Titus ' s or of Adrian ' s war : it
is sufteieRt that these returned Christians were residing at Jerusalem , or , more properly , iElia , at the same time that Aquila was residing there *"—And , finally , he enters a very earnest caveat against chronological cavils .
AH * however , would not do . His acute and indefatigable opponent pushes his advantage to the utmost ; demonstrates the futility of Epiphanius ' s testimony , and copapefe the bishop , however reiact ^ Rtly , to abandon these holy
aixi or-theniox emigrants to their jfetfca A ^ with very slight
no-Ueey the assertion of Epiphanius , tyjiich if at a , ll worthy of credit Would have been most applicable to his purpose , he chuses to derive his proof from Jerome * whose testimony the learned prelate
" thinks more convincing than thfrt of Epipbanitis * ' The testifltooifcy ^ f Jerome , as the reader oaay remember , is to this fact &tonGjytba . t in his time there were certain «« Hebrews , who believed ia Chm ** " This forms the seventh
arid concluding step of the bishop ' s famous demonstration of the ex . * 3 t £ nce af the Hebcew orthodox cburc ^ ® t M hit . But it tb ^ isHim * . 8 y testimony of Jerome was , ill ®«^ op Iierftley ' s estimation , more
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convincing that ) that of Epiphanius v what must he have thougbt of Epiphanius s testimony j * In trutli , the bishop himself , in his last publication , gives up the
testimony of Jerome , as well as that of Epiphanius- His Words , ( Tracts p . 549 ) are remarkable . — " St . Jerome ' s evidence / goes barely to the proof * that a body of orthodox Christians of the He *
brews was actually existing in tbe world much later than in the time of Adrian . St . Jerome ' s evidence is brought for the proof of this proposition singly . * ' . And againy p . 551 , " The existence of these
orthodox Hebrew believers , in the time of St . Jerome , being thus proved by St . Jerome ' s evidence ^ the probability of the fact ^ that they resided atiEJia > and that such ' a body had been settled at JE \ m from the time of Adrian
downwards , RESTS UPON MY SIX FORMER positions / ' These six positions , the attentive reader will ^ e * member , were six gratuitous assumptions : and that they werG not always judged by tbe bishop
to be equal to the ' hard duty which he now imposes upon them ^ will appear from the learned pre * late ' s own words , Tracts , p . 419 * " It may seem that my six |> osi- ; dons go no further than to account for the disuse of the Mosaic law :
among the Christian's of Palestine , upon the supposition , that tbe thing took place : and that they AMOUNT NOT TO A PROOF that a church of Hebrew Christians ^ not
adhering to-the rites of Juidaism , actually existed at iElia . To complete the proof I might appeal to Epiphanius—but 1 wiH rather derive the proof from a foot which I think more convincing than the
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yy ;¦ M H % r * & £ 0 s % Qpi ?* &&j ) ty > : * & $ h $ JRw .. Mvivleyv 587
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1813, page 587, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2432/page/27/
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