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to be found in any Greek writer . Before the conclusion of his second paragraph , which is the
first of his attack on Gnesbach , Mr . J . has granted to that critic all that he could wish , and totally given up the defence of Mr . W . He says , * ' the iEtbiopic translator associated with $ sog the same
awful or even superstitious idea which the Septuagint had done with the term Jehovah ; ( is this perfectly correct as to the LXX ?) he therefore seems to render Qao $
by ( a word equivalent to ) xvpio $ wherever it occurs , and by that word when used absolutely or un . restricted he ever means the Supreme Being * " Was this the case , in sooth ? I have no business with
what he meant by ( the word equi-% alent to ) xvpio $ , here , or in as many places as Mr . J . chooses . What has Grie&bach said more , who had to settle his text , let the meaning be what it might ? Is it , then , granted that the translator ' s rendering is the same as would do for ' the Greek word
xvpiog * Whence is it then concluded that his text , whether Greek or not Greek is not yet determined , contained the reading tso $ ? This of Mr
supposition . J-, for he will scarcely contend that it is any thing more , does Ins cause no service , and he might well have spared his inference , that M Mr . " W . knew this , and he
asserts it , ( he asserts , by the uy , no such thing ) < f though the assertion , it must be allowed , is weakened by the appeal which he make 3 to his own recollection . **
Had Mr . Wakefield thus thought or asserted , he never would have so harshly charged infamous falsehood on Griesbach , whose positif nis thus undesjgnedly established *
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though with qualifications , which , however , ansitfer no purpose ; for " absolutely" and " unrestricted " are mere sounding words employed to serve an occasion , and the reading of the 2 E . V . is not altered by them . Mr . J . next argues that as rj btckXtjTix * ov KVpiov is no wh « re used in the N . T . therefore it
cannot be the reading of this text . This is some presumption , I allow , against it , but the inference is not irrefragable . If the reading be established by good proof , its
being a , itOL % Xeyopsvov would not exclude it . Although ^ Sd ^ a , Qao u and y ) ^ q ^ cct'ou dsou are often to be found in the N . T ., y do % oc , xvpiov is read but once , and in that instance there are various readings : stance there are vanous readings ;
^ yet without disturbing the expression . However this may be , the next sentence falls harmless out of the writer ' s hands , and must be attributed to an oversight little to be expected from Mr . Jones ' s sagacity . It is , in substance , thar ^
if the reading rou xvoiov were adif the reading too xvpiov were admitted , it would not mean Christ but God ; cc because o xvptofy when used in the Jewish and Christian Scriptures , unrestricted by some other word or circumstances in the context , ever
denotes the Supreme Being . " On this I observe , first , that it would seem hence that Mr . J . thinks o Kvgiog to be an appellation of the Supreme Being frequently
occurring , and one peculiarly appropriated to God and exclusive generally of all others . Than this nothing can be less founded . Micbaelis seems to have doubted
whether God , or the Father , is ever in the N .-T .- called o ytvpto ? and Dr . Middleton corrects him by a scanty collection of texts .
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Primiiivu& in Answer to Mr . Jones * &&f
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1813, page 597, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2432/page/37/
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