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and truth and the nature of the case required that 1 should have stated it , and the doing so cannot , I think , be justly considered as an aspersion cast on the Doctor . If on the other hand I have falsely asserted this of him ; it is a false . hood open to the most easy detection . To convict me of it the Doctor had only to refer to the passage , or passages , in his work where such evidence is to be found .
The Doctor would , without doubt , have availed himself of such a circumstance had it been in his pow . er . But instead of doing this he exclaims , " Must I then have the trouble of transcribing from Lexicons ? If so let us go to the source at once . 9 He then makes
quotations from Parkhurst , Dr . Taylor , Schrevelius , Hedericus , Scapula , Constantine , &c . Can an appeal to Lexicons , then , prove the assertion of the Doctor , ( that " it had been shewn that Kolasis
means correction" ) to be true , or my affirming that he had not attempted any thing of the kind to be false ? But let us see what the
testimony of his lexicographers amounts to . Parkhurst , as quoted by the Doctor , says , U KOAAZZl from the Hebrew tf / D to restrain . This derivation is confirmed by observing that the Greek koXoc £ ou
»* sometimes applied by profane writers it \ the sense of restraining or repressing . " Had the Doctor gone one step farther in his quotation , this authority would have
"MMle directly against him ; for Parkhurst adds , " To punish . Qcc , Act * iv . 21 ....-2 Pet . ii . 9 . " Restraint then , according to Park . "Urst , as applied to men , means punishmen t , and in this sense only
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is the word used in the New Testament- I referred in my letter * to the above passages , cited by Parkhurst , as decisive on this point , but my observations on them the Doctor passes over without any notice . But why has not the Doctor transcribed from Parkhurst what be says on the noun Kolasis , the word in question , but
for the same reason that he stopped where he did in the above quotation ? u KoXxcris , ( says Park - hurst ) from ko \ oC £ w to punish 1 . Punishment . Occ . Matt . xxv .
46 . 2 . Torment . Occ . 1 John iv . 18 . " Dr . Taylor says , " ^ J ^ to confine ^ restrain * fycJ * Tfiat this is the leading idea conveyed by the word , they all agree * If they did not what would the
Doctor gain by producing witnesses that oppose and contradict one another . If this testimony were not suffi . cient , we would appeal to that of the Doctor himself , who asserts , though very inconsistently , that
Kolasis means punishment ; hit words are , f ** I wish here to in * form your English readers that the
two words , by which punishment ( not correction ) is generally ex * pressed in Greek , are Timoria and Kolasis . ' 4 t Timoria * ( quoting from Aristotle ) be says , ** is evil
inflicted for the sake of the person who inflicts it , and for his own gratification- '* The word Timoria , it may be observed , as well as Ko lasts * occurs in the new
Testament in relation to the punishment of the wicked . Heb . X . 2 £ h Our inquiry is , In what sense * the words KoAflf £ ttr and KoXacif are _ ¦ .... - ,. — ¦ .-,.., i ' . ? Monthly JPtc for April , p « %% 6 .
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Jfr > Marsenis Reply to Dr . Estlin , on Future Punishment . § 25
