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tus . Bui a £ I tljeo 4 * 4 not rightly apprehentj bi % > solution , the whole of that pa ^ g ^ should he cancelled . Having , mentioned this , I beg , leave lo observe , that in that paper several other errors appear , which rpay be attributed to my haste and bad vyritiug .
Grammatical faults n «? ed not to be noticed , as your readers will probably impute tji em Xo the trqe cause * The paren > hes \ $ , however , respecting tAefe--y } a ingiiJtogq $ 9 is so totally wrongs that it should be erased . Other blemishes must remain .
But to conclude . An objection or two seem to militate against Mr . J . ' s novel and iugenious interpretation of the latter part of por text , where he supposes that the person who purchased the church of God is not
Gpd , b , u £$ f , that is , Jesus Christ , he , emphatically . First , I doubt vvbeUiersfcrnpbasis can be inferred , W he re no nominative case is employ . e ^ , except where there is no tHh ^ r resource ., Prophetic language
is reserved , so that the reference to U )< 3 LXX * Micah vi . 2 , seems insufficient . The saying of the disciples of Pythagoras , avro $ £ < p& , referring to himself without further description , has the nominative
expressed , which is the thing I want , and confirms my objection . 2 < Jly The rule , * a clause introduced to define the object , cannot be se . parated from it and changed , to
become the agent of the same verb , " i ^ worded obscurely , and the drift of U seems to be contradicted by other passages , unless the cautious fence drawn round it
repd $ r £ ij £ ecure Peering to ap . WW . S IWWtft to object to every l *' gi m ^ d wantin g Jeisure antJ i « - < W ^^») fur ihe search , I have ^ fM ^ ^ SiftM J for phrM ^^
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which may contravene thi ^ canon * But I would ' offer the following passages out of the LXX to Mr . J / s attention , to which others might be added . Josh , xxiv * 31 itccvta ret spy a , ytupiov o $ cc enoilers * i Kings xv . 29 , To pn ^ cc Kvgiov 0 sXxXqcrs . 2 Kings xviii . 16 , ra $ _ svtoKx's avrou ocraf &verei ? wo . Jerem , xxxvi . 4 , Ttcevroi s rovg Aa- « youg Kvpiov ov ? eA ^ A ^ o-f . 3 dly , The novelty of Mr . J . ' s interpret tatton seems to be a strong argu-. ment against it . How came it * if , as he seems to say , the ancients were embarrassed respecting the
blood of God , and therefore substituted Ttvpiov for Qsov * that they ^ who knew Greek usage in no mean degree , never stumbled on this solution , which would have served
them quite as well as corrupting the text ? / fear they did . not apprehend that the passage wouldadmit it . la so long a lapse of ages 7 one would have expected that this canon of criticism , or , at
least , that itigoQuity and eoibar * rassment , would have come to their relief , if there had been room for them . Surely , however , their bias was stronglyf not against , but
for , rev Oeou % and I can account , on no otlx-r supposition , for the reading , rov > tvpiov xaci fisou , found in so many manuscripts , which decidedly is not the true reading , as the manuscripls are of little va * . lue which Mr . J . h . is not noticed .
Had $£ 0 \ j hern already in ihe text , what net < i whs then * of Kupiou before it , which clearly increases the supposed tiiiticuily , as the words so united an more decided *
ly the appellation ot the £ > upr <; ine 6 eing . On the eontiary ,, pribq * ck > x 25 < al would uacuiaUy adu ^ cu toitvpiou } as this would uiurq ^ ivocaliy prov ^ the divinity f > L Ciuiftt
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P ^ imUivw in Answer fo Mr ^ Jones , & 9 $
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1813, page 599, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2432/page/39/
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