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    of Griesbach and myself / ' This is , in vulgar phrtf $ e $ dying game , at least , but where the confusion will be found is cheerfully left to the judgment of your learned and unlearned readers . For myself , the retrospect on what I have written furnishes me with a

    comfortable portion of complacency * Affectation also is soon afterwards attributed to me as not considering myself implicated in the dis , grace of Griesbach , and in the vindication of Mr . Wakefield

    and something is said about blinding my readers , acknowledging jpy error , and kissing the rod ! fcfo such affectation can be

    discovered lh my paper , though the circumstance has nothing to do with the question discussed . On tjhe contrary , I avowed myself a volunteer in the defence of Gries .

    baeh , after stating the fact , indeed , that Mr . JL had left me untouched . If he would pay a little more attention to logical precision , he would see that he has not represented the case with accura cy * Perhaps , too , he might ijrad out in whose hand the rod

    has been placed , if he would take the trouble to reflect . If he have aot felt it , I do not envy him his feelings , although insensibility is an excellent guard against mortification * It is true that , instead of dipping it in brine , I

    endeavoured to steep it in honey ^ that it naight inflict as little pain as possible . Of this your learned readers must be fully aware , and the appeal is made to them with cheerfulness . Happy should I have been if such personalities had never been introduced .

    Since Mr , J . favoured us with the Latin translation of the M £ \ x \ m « P * € Yersion from the Polygiotn

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    he has ^ it seems , procured Ludolph ' s JBthiopic \ Lexicon , and learned the ifithiopic Alphabet . At this stage of his progress , he leaves me in great hesitation whether he has rightly spelled out the

    words of the text in that language ; for what Mr . W . and Griesbach . speak of as a word , is by him exhibited as more than one . But r to shorten the dispute , his state * ment of the case shall be admitted .

    From it , however , the cautious accuracy of the great critic is demonstrated , and the infamous

    falsehood charged against him is found , to a certainty , not to exist . Mr * Jones may recollect what he has said of the Syriac translator , that he was a believer in the

    divinity of Christ , and cannot theft fail to draw a right inference from the words used by him of iEthiopia , who was in the same unhappy predicament . He finds out r indee £ l ? by some curious mode of ratio * cination that even the Syriac

    Versionist ( which ?) had row Qsovj of God , in his Greek copy , though he has given no other proof of it , with all his Trinitarian faith , but a ' translation into a word equivalent to rot > Hvpiov , of the Lord ,, from which others would draw a con *

    elusion diametrically ! opposite * But Mr- J . can convert any thing and ; every thing to his purpose , and has now exhibited , in its very best trim a specimen of : the art of criticism prevalent in his school . It is such a rod that I ana doomed

    to kiss f But to proceed . Would not prejudice operate as strongly on the mind of the iEthiopic Versionist as on that of his brother of Syria , who , poor man , has given a very strange proof of its influence , if Mr * J- sayeth true . It is , Sir , clear to a demonstration

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    J 9 r . Lloyd ' s Answer to Afr * Jones ^ 3 ^

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1814, page 39, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2436/page/39/