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His words are , Mr . Wakefield evej ? y where professes his high opinion of this version , ( the ^ Ethiopic ) but I do not recollect that he has any where informed us on what ground his esteem is founded ; whether on the merits of the version itself , of which , according to Michaelis , we know less than of any other Oriental Version : but which , as far as respects the Epistles , he says , was made by a
person who was very inadequate to the task ; or merely on the Latin , Tvbich , according to the same critic , is of little value . " I rely on this account as a faithful report of Michaelis ' s opinion , which will " be deemed sufficient to establish my position , at least in default of better evidence , that the Latin translation of the JE * V . has little merit . If Dr . Middleton has misled his readers , he must answer for himself .
But , secondly , the Latin translation , whatever may be its general value , is of no weight as to the text from which the i £ . V . was made , because , \( the word be one which stands , in that V .
for Bso $ and for xvpio $ indiscriminately , as asserted b y Griesbach , it would naturally ? be rendered into Latin by Deus or Dominu $ indifferently , according to the determination of the translator .
Griesbach's assertion , therefore , is not at all impugned by Mr . Jones ' s Latin from the Polyglott , nor is Mr . Wakefield ' e genf / ecensure of him in the least confirmed . Indeed- whatever the term in the
M * V . may be , the translator may be supposed to have had his innocent prejudices , so , at least , as to translate an ambiguous word favourably , if possible , to his own Cieed , if be might not also have
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thought it justifiable even to render a plain one that should mi . litate against that creed , by one more favourable to it , especially if that should have the support , as in this case , of the common Greek and of the Vulgate Version . Mr . \ V . and G . therefore , stand as they did , for any thing that Mr . Jones has asserted , for his proof entirely fails . For my own
part , I freely own myself disposed to believe Griesbach ; as I have no proof of Mr . W ' s . superiority over him on this point , and think it far more candid , however Mr .
J . may question my " cancjor , " to suppose that Mr . W * s . passion , which is apparent from his language , led him into error , though I still suspect his knowledge , than to admit that G , has asserted a
deliberate or infamous falsehood , as he is accused of doing by Mr . W . and his defender . However , I really wish that the point , though of small importance indeed to Acts xx . 28 , were finally decided by some oriental scholar of
established authority , -which has not been done , as far as I know , although orthodoxy would scarcely have slumbered if the assertion of Mr . W . had been capable of proof . I fear that it has been all
the while indulging a laugh in the sleeve at the aid lent to it by granting it the reading rov $ eov while it turned up its nose , in scorn , at the attempt to enfeeble that aid bv the curious rendering
of , his own son . Mr . J . joins the Arabic version with the JEthiopic as bearing the same testimony . But , on enquiry , he will find this to be a mistake , for the reading which that V . would countenance is raft Kvp $ oy &eovf an expression not
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6 £ 6 Pfimiiivus ia Answer to Mr . Jones .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1813, page 596, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2432/page/36/
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