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vov Q ° ov , to Gnd > ought to bt * profern d to all others , * 1 answer : this can <> n of criticism is to be undrT ^ tood of a difficult and unusual reading which is supported by the auihoiitv at lea ^ t of some grave and ancient witnesses . For , a reading , clearly destitute of competent witnesses , can by no me * ns be defended-on the ground of its difficulty merel y . Brides , in that a ^ e in which the copies how remaining were transcribed , the form of expression in
discussion was neither altogether unusual 5 nor did it se ^ m at that time haish or false to most Catholics . These , on the . contrary , took delight in dainty morsels of this nalure , and frequently vised them sis an indubhable token , and , as
it were , a pledge of their orthodoxy . If then it had been written in express terms , r 620 $ Siocrov
tSiou oct ^ ocro ^ tfepisiroirj O-ctTt ryjv £ Kk \ yj $ i o ( , v Go ft 'with his own blood purchased the church , the ancient theologian * , in their controversies
with heretics oi various descriptions concerning the natures and person of Christ , would , without doubt , have appealed again and again , to so remarkable a text . JBut so far were they from using this weapon in demolishing their adversaries , that on the contrary , the more ancient fathers , and ,
among them , even A'thanasius liimsclf against Apollinaris , deny ; that aipa . Saw , the blood of God -js to be iound in the holy scripture * . 4 * hl y . It may be objected , that the copies which have nvptqu xoti Seov do in a manner
* This is an approved cation of criticism which Griesbach has adopted in thve preface to his edition . Trans .
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confirm the reading of QscvA It is answered as often as two readings are exhibited in conjunction , that , which appears alone in the greater number of the more ancient and more excellent copies , is to be considered as preferable to that which is not found alone
except in a few records , and those more recent and of less value . — 5 thly . The Latin book-writers probably set down DNI , domini , instead of DEI ; and trom such Latin copies those Greek M . SS . which have xvpiov were , perhaps , corrupted . Answer : The more ancient Latin books favour lha
reading Domini , and the more modern ones only favour the reading , Dei , Besides , I trust that no critic of the present age will give credit to the exploded fable of the Greek copies latinizing . J
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On the use of Vocal and Instrumental Music in Public Worm ship . Part 11 . ( Continued from p . 466- ) 7 . TertuJlian ( a Carthaginian writer who flourished at the end
of the second and the beginning of the third century , ) is our next authority . He affords us very considerable room to believe , that in his time and country singing was employed in the public worship of the Christians . " There
"f Thi 3 is a curious argument , as if they do not also confirm the reading xvpiov * Indeed , they confirm little or nothing in the question . Trans * J Probably we should except from
thi « observation the copy , D , of Theodore Beza , the Cambrid ^ eman of Dr » Kipling , which copy seems to latinise * See Appendix to Dr . Middle ton on th « Greek Article . Trans .
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6 B 8 On tie Use of Vocal and Instrumental Music in Public Worship .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1813, page 668, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2433/page/44/
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