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in this manner : c < I appeared unto Abraham , w ¥ ito Isaac * and unto Jacob , by tht name of God Almighty ; but by my name ( or tiitt } Jehovah I was not known ( or
distinguished , or distinguishing ^ It / manifested ) to them . " * That is , when I appeared to Abraham , to Isaac , and to Jacob , I did not then appropriate the name
Jehovah as my distinctive title from false gods and as the God of my people ; but I appropriated the appellation God Almighty to these purposes , under the Abrahamic dispensation' ( 455 ) .
We acknowledge ourselves not a little pleased with these specimens of the writer ' s critical skill and ingenuity . At the same time , we regard John i . 18 , iii . 13 . as disclosing the sense of vi . 62 .
The sixth essay , which should have preceded all the others , is an excellent sketch of the different modes in which the Hebrews ex . press a great degree and the
superlative degree of a quality . Here Mr . S . treads , for the most part , on stable ground : and , his subject being now a peculiarity , gram * matical and rhetorical , of
language , this application of his learning and judgment , will be satisfactory to nearly all his readers . For the sections into which this useful paper is divided , we refer to * the essay itself : a few remarks which occurred to us during the
perusal of it , shall be put down in their order . Our Essayist ( 465 ) interprets Is . liii . 4 , [ smitten of God ] as
importing greatly afflicted . The accuracy of the interpretation , is dubious : for the prophet ' s mean * ing seems to t > e that the Jews of our Saviour ' * age . would iwfc
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upon his sufferings as a judicial punishment , inflicted upon him by God , for his blasphenay and imposture . 466 . In Mark xi . 22 , iti ^ tit &s& may signify the faith -which has God for its object .
To the examples under Section xi ( 4 * 76 ) may be added Matt , xv , 4 . \ poLvcuTu ) ^ eXsvlarcv ] . In its ge . neral form , it is a Hebraism : and Newcome has well rendered it , " let him surely die . " ( 486 . ) We doubt as to Mr .
Simpson ' s explanation of Gen , xii . 2 . [ Thou shalt be a blessing— -i . e . very blessed ] He considers it as an instance of an abstract substantive being used to denote a high degree . We submit that the ge . nuine meaning of the word in this
passage , is fixed by Gen . xvm . 18 , and that Abraham here receives a promise of his being made a blessing to his posterity and to mankind . But , in the room of the above text , we shall place under this sectioa Ezsk . ii » 7 > f ° the literal translation of which
the reader may consult the margin of th ^ English Bible , 491 , 4952 . In the . catalogue of texts under Sect . x , xjii * wesM * class Num . xxvii . ai . and all
those passages . where the memo * rable words- Urim and TjW ** 1 * are found . The judgiWjit * ° ** nominated ) was , according to Dr . Samuel CbancUor , * the judgn « j or determination " of lights ^
PJERFJECTIQNS , i . e . ' ' ,. W * , [' " perfectly clear , precise and lu » i the plural , number beir ^ " quently us « d , io .. «« O" ^ nW W > guages , to ,, ^ pje tbe ^ c ^ . and perfection pi ^ ny tt }» Rg * * U& * t JDwOi Vol . i . »•
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682 Review . — Simp $ e $ fs Essays on the Language of Scnpturt .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1813, page 682, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2433/page/58/
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