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proof of wwv . being « Of ^ e ^ q& \ plc * yed > sillily io regard to tfap pr ^ isent stage q £ rnau > existence . Our translators have here thought proper to refrain from a perfectly
literal rendering , * and , by i $ ot fallowing their usual course * have prevented most of their readers from seeing that the phrase for ever does nut always import ivji ~ nite cLur&tif ) n > Wakefield and
Newcouue « ori the GQattfary , have been faithtol to the original . In ten passages of the Christian scriptures , ouoov and aitovios stand for past limited duration , of different periods . We jrp ay remark that there are many such instances in the LXX . 3 VIr . S » has further
collected twenty-two from the sacred volume throughout , in which these words are applied to future limited duration . He rightly interprets Heb . vi . 5 . of the Christian sy stem . Our author finds that in eleven
texts , taken exclusively from the New Testament , these same expressions sigtvi / y duration without end * However , in this series of
passages , most of those where cciujv occurs have a repetition of the word , v . g- leg cciujvaz revv ocicwwv In seven places ., the terms bear the moaning of duration without beginning and without end *
We fully subscribe to the follows ing deduction of Mr . Simpson ' s , ( P . 170 •* It appears frorii the different senses of the adjective mouno $ y and frotei- t ^ e much ; more frequent application of cuwv the suibst ^ ntive ^ Up denote ^ ^ u ? aited , than an eternal 4 urat « on , that no
...... i i-i . > -i i m . , >¦ . ,. l i ^ . i ^ . . .. ' * They , harve committed the same offence against correctness iri I Sairi . lii . 35 . * ' fie shall walk before rtiine anointed for ever x literally and better , all his 4 ayr . *
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conclusion c ^ ui be fairly drawn merely from the use of these words for the absoltite ietdrhity either of the punishment of the wicked or of the happiness of th # * rtghteou 8 . "
In p&ga 18 he has introduced a consideration which , however valid in ujself ^ may by some persons be deuaaed foreign to an Essay on the language of Scripture , &c . There are those who , if they do pot deny that the doctrine of the strict eter *
mtyiof future punish men ts , militotes * against all their ideas of the in # ndse mercy and goodness of GodyV will yet remind Mr . S . tbatnthe present inquiry isy vvhetherthis tenet be inculcated ia the
sadred writings ? The next section is devoted to an : examination of the scriptural sense of the words amWvfu and OtTtWXtWL . To kitty or destroy temporally and to die \ is stated to be the most
frequent meamtag of a 9 r © XXo ^ in the New Testament . Abouttbirtys-six examples of this signification ! of it are brought together by our author ; . eight , where it is put for tb lose life , this hfe 9 the life
after this ; eleven , where it stands for losing any thing ; and eight , where it expresses g < 4 * ig astray * Bta » t the last sense is obviously the samo \ viA that of being lost jor ' a time * « - !
This verb has also various other meanings , such as to punish ^ to make fvolish or impotent , Co induce to offend x > r @ct contrary to con * science , fyc . Nine cape 9 arc addu > cted < of its application $ 0 the future life *
For the present , at least , we stall do no more than qjuote Mr » Simpson ' s declaration fin respect of the opinion that ftjtUFfe punishmerit will consist in annihilation : he says , f . 29 ^ J
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6 gkk Rtvj ^^ Sipfrsp&Js L Etsay * o » tfe &ttgv> &f Scrigfytti
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1813, page 604, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2432/page/44/
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