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rior learning . u Bishop Horsley i gjnore . pt ,: Mr * Belsham learned . " While , at the same time , he insinuates ^ bat ike reviewer is so wretchedly ignorant that he cannot understand a Greek or Latin
author without having recourse to an English or a French translation , which , says this polite writer , ( p . 57 !•) is " the qom . tnon practice of the most arrogant polemics of the Unitarian school . " And
who can doubt whether the acc u * racy of Mr . Prebendary Horsley ' s information keeps pace with ; the intrepidity of his assertions ? Especially as throughout his vaunting Appendix , he takes frequent occasion to throw out sneers and sarcasms of similar tendency .
If , however , the learning of -the reviewer , of this famous contro - versy enables him to sh # w * beyond contradiction , that the right reverend prelate , who perfectly under , stood the question , retired from ( he field conscious of a total
defeat , and if it is competent to prove that the well-meaning efforts of the pious prebendary , who undertook , with more zeal than prudence , to vindicate his father ' s theological feme , have only served
to notify his own lamentable ignorance , and' to render the learned prelate ' s failure still more conspicuous , the public can have uo further concern in the 4 ite « ury attainments of so obscure an individual as the . reviewer of this
controversy . Nor can it be of the least moment to any one to ascertain the comparative learning of the contending parties . To depreciate classical literature is very far from
tae wish , or the intention , of the reviewer . Let it not however be forgotten , that a man may be a profound scholar but a shallow
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theologian ; and that the lear n ing even of a Parr or a Porson can never convert nonsense into sensenor prove a . contradiction to be true .
Yet , after all , let it not be saicj , that the reverend prebendary accumulates charges without proof . He has caught his luckless adversary upon the horns of a terrible dilemma , from \ vhich it appears impossible for him to escape uru wounded . Wilful falsehood or
gross ignorance are the only alternatives , out of which he is left to make his choice , and the Christian tenderness which so eminently distinguishes the pious ecclesiastic is willing to screen even a foeman from the imputation of deliberate untruth . Let him speak for himself . See Tracts , p . 597 .
, " Though I am as far Trogp suspecting him of a disregard . . tjo truth in general , as ray iafher was of suspecting Origen of such disregard , it is impossible to d q ^ u ^ t that in the heatj > f controversy Jtkp
has , through inattention , no doubt , asserted at least pne falsehood as notorious a * that of which the bishop accused Origen . In his f ^ eal to degrade the Son of Qod frqijn the dignity of tfre Creator to that of a me . re ip&a in the creation , he
finds the epithet i * . QVoyevYiS ) which is applied to , h ^ m by St . John , so much in his way , that to get rid of it , he supposes it to be employed by tjjat apostle in no other sense than as equivalent to ayaityflH ^ which he bqldly affirms docs not occur in St . John , As he is one of
the authors q ( the Improved Version , [ who toffl the reverend jpfwbendary that ?] we cannot sv ^ spiect him of haviqg never read jthQ ori - ginal , or of having read it wUh so little attention , as to have t -
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Mr . Belfhatn ' s Reply to the Rev . " If . fforsley . 7 ^ 7
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1813, page 727, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2434/page/35/
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