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• fiatf 'Mr . J * & observation been £ recHcated of Kvpio $ instead of o xbptog , it would have been generally
and fundamentally true . r I be state of the case is nearly this , though I know that I am treading on tender ground , of which Mr . 1 was not aware when he wrote a ? above : God , both in the Seven . ty and in the IN . T . is generally
styled xvpios when no other word is added , and not very often d Tivpiog In the Seventy xvpiog is appropriated to God , and used Of no other absolutely . The same taay be said of the N . T . generally , the absence of the article ,
in other applications of it , being easily accounted for ^ eft good principles . This being the case , it was of importance to Bishop Pearson , towards proving the divinity of Christ , to shew that he also is called xvpic $ ^ very unlike Mr . Jones who seems to think
that o xvpio $ is more sacredly applied to the Almighty . The Bifchop has produced about a hundred passages to make good bis point , not one of which will serve his purpose . The most plausible
is rjfjuspoc xvpiov , which may not mean particularly the day of Christ . Dr . Middieton , pp . 2 4 , 295 , has attempted to furnish more decided examples , without
success * But , secondly , as to the application of 0 xvpio $ , or xufios , to n ° ne . but the Supreme Being without iome word or circombtance to restrain them , no
one can hesitate to allow the position . The observation , however , does not help out Mr . J ' s . conclusion , that Griesbach . has , by adopting tod xvpiou in his text , M introduced a change of words , Without any change whatever in the moaning , Which 6 hews him ^
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either unacquainted Withtxreek , or destitute of judgment . *• For if we adopt riv icv 0 ' o % faaVe we not the very condition which he re . quires , * words or Circumstances in the context / ' which as effectually restrict the expression to
Christ as any passage in the whole N . T . ? The ifisciples said to the two that had I ^ een at Eramaus , The Lord , S KVpio $ , hath risen indeedy and hath appeared unto Si ~ meori ? The words hhth risen and
appeared point out Jesus as the person intended . But are not the words in the text under consideration , viz . which fie hath purchased with his own bloody as strongly restrictive ? For I pronounce it as
impossible for the Supreme Being to have shed his bloody as it was for him , after shedding his blood , to have risen and appeared . Although Mr . J . deserves to be reprehended for his insinuation that
Griesbach w&s , for adopting * to % xvpiov , " either unacquainted , " &c . 1 will not retort * It is enough to shew that G ' s . Greek and his judgment stand unjiistly impeached , because the attack upon him ii altogether founded in error .
On the whole , I see no reason to doubt the ground by which Griesbach's reading is supported . Mr . J . however , although he appears unsuccessful , in ^ his defence of Mr . Wakefield and in his attack
on Griesbach , which is the proper design of his paper , must be allowed the pvaise of ingenuity and originality , in the interpretation of the latter part of the verse , if
the reading rov Qeov should prove to be genuine , whfeh I confers is far from appearing to tile tb be the case . Mr . J . is the { friend to whom I referred , &t the coti ^ - sion Of the pkp ^ t signed •** itaW-
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#$ 8 Pritnitimb in Anm&Ho Mr . Jmti .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1813, page 598, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2432/page/38/
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