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sometimes applied to him : and , thou gh it is granted that some huttvan beings have appeared to men ? afte r their departure from thi > life , as divine messengers , a gent ral and important doctrine ,
nevertheless , must not be erected upon a few solitary instances . What advantage , too , we ask , \* oiild be obtained by the establishment of Mr . Simpson ' s hypothesis ? On either supposition , tin ? communications first referred to , must have
been miraculous * Let our rea *] ers then say if it be more likely that these communications were tirade ly the medium o \ men after their departure from this life than by that of beings who rank higher
than ourselves in the scale ul existence ? Besides , Samuel , Moses and Elijah are never called meets ( 4 2 6 ) .
We are much happier when we can agree with this meritorious writer than in expressing our dissent from any of his conclusions . OnPs . lxxviiu 25 , [ Man did eat angels food ] he criticises very
accurately by simply producing the Hebrew word ; and he well renders the clause the bread of the ™ ghty ( 36 S > . Rosenmiiller and Geddes might have been quoted iu behalf of the correction .
There are many ether remarks mthis essay which claim our approbation ; whMe there are some ^ whic h we cannot acquiesce . "W , altogether , we earnestly re- »
commend k to the notice dftheological students and inquirers . On the subject of angels , as on that ° f an evil spirit ( and bptfoi arise
° tttof the language of the recQrds ^ jweafcd rel igion , his ^ ad of ^ g parts of reveale d religion ) , Iu ^* rligl 4 t ^ iU r ^ Jaaa * ^ known
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by a continued investigation of scriptural phraseology . Mr . Simpson has done much
towards this object . Mis memory is not dishonoured vvht * n we ad <| that , aidc . ci by his services ^ future critics may possibly do more . In both the cases which we have
mentioned , it appears lo ourselves that the parties who write or speak of them m the Old and the New
Testament , were convinced of the real , personal existence of these descri | < ti " ns of beings . Even if they tnquently employ ihe terras in question' allegonrally , such ant application of them seems to denote that this was n < t trieir piimary meaning , but that the Hgurative mu «< have bien erected on
a 11 tv i al- s i j » m riqat i o n . In the fifth essay , which is not very happily placed , JVJr . Simpson examines into the meaning of Johfi vk 62 , 63 * and of Exodus vi . 3 . The former oi these p ?
vssages [ What and if ye shall see fhe Son of man , &c ] he thus points and translates ( 34 £ ) , 4 i Neverthe less , whin ye sbcdl see the Son of tuan rise up where he was before , YE WILL KNOW THAT * he
i * the spirit thar giveth life . " His paraphrase is us follows : when ye shall perceive that the Son of man is risen from the dead to life
again , ye- will know that he shall have power to give everlasting life to those who believe in and obey him" The other text fl appeared
unto Abraham , unto I ^ aac and unto Jacob by the name of God Almighty , but by my namejebovah was I not known ta $ hem } our author renders a /> d interprets * These mrordi Mr & supplies by cwy&XW * *
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: Review . —Simps ons Essays on the Langitgge of Scripture . f&X
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1813, page 681, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2433/page/57/
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