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< t to the Paschal lamb , or to the Iamb which under the Jewish law was offered daily for the sins of the people . " We believe that this interpretation by the Dean of Cork is correct : but it will not thence follow that the figure justifies the prevailing theory of sacrifice and atonement .
There are only three passages in the English Testament where the word propitiation occurs : and in one of these , Rom . iii . 25 , itshould have been differently translated ; the application of the original term in the LXX being uniformly to the mercy ~ seat 9 which
rendering is sanctioned by the great authorities of Joseph Mede and Mr . Locke as well as of Krebsius and J . Taylor . Heb . ix . 5 , both in the Greek and in our public version warrants this translation . We
presume that the meaning of terms found in the Septuagitit should generally determine their sense when used by the evangelists and apostles- And we perceive that
in Ps . cxxx . 4 , i \ a < r { t , o $ signifies forgivcness—condonatio , remissio . —These observations we oppose to Dr . M ' s note ( XXVI ) "On the meaning of the word propitiation in the New Testament . "
He enumerates ( under No . XXVII , ) several < c texts describing Christ ' s death as a sacrifice for sin , " In some of these passages no sacrificial terms or references
appear . This , we think , is particularly true of MatU xx . 28 , * with which Mark x- 45 , is parallel ; though Dr . M . quotes them as heingdistinct . —The marginal reading of Isaiah liii . 10 , in the public
Xvfgoy has an allusion to captiTes in war , flx . Its senses are excellently stated by Schleugner .
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version , is , c When his soul shall make an offering for sin : ' * but Cranmer ' s or the Great Bible renders the clause , " when he bad made his soul an offering for sin . " In both these translations we find
the verb employed in the third person : there is a difference , however , in the nominative case to it ; and the Dean of Cork , who is so zealous in exposing the real or imagined iadadyertencies of Dr , Priestley , in an Essay , published forty-five years ago , would have done well to state this difference
with precision . We shall admit that Christ ' s death was an offering for sin . So far , there is no dispute between the Illustrator and ourselves . Why does he constrain us to remind him that the question before us is , whether this offering was a substitution of punishment and a propitiation of wrath ?
In No . XXVIII . Dr . Magee concedes that the word r . ata \ Xffyq should have been translated reconciliatioit in Rom . v . 11 . Christians are there said to have
received the reconciliation ^ k e , they are invited to be reconciled tm God conformably with the language of the same apostle in 2 Cor . v . 10—21 ,
Not denying " that Christ ' s death is described in scripture as a sin-offering , " - ) - we feel little interested in the note which follows . Is this the only instance in the
sacred volume in which Dr . M . has discovered a metonymy of the effect for the cause ?
¦ f There are some passages where the word ccfJ ^ OC ^ Tloc seems to require this translation : Dr . Priestley , in his Notes on Scripture ( printed in 1803 and I 8 O 4 J styles Jesus the Christian sinoffering * V , hr . 500 .
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Review . —Dr . Magee on Atonement 701
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? OL . ix . 4 x
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1814, page 701, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2446/page/41/
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