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reader will instantly discern the want of clearness and precision of ideas : and he will not be less sensible of it when he proceeds to the note itself . We are far from
thinking that the Dean of Cork has here gained a triumph over his opponents . But aHt 3 \ vmg for a moment , the inconsistency of H . Taylor and Dr . Priestley with themselves z , nd with each other , what must be the conclusion ?
Supposing the advocates to have failed in any part of their reasonings is their cause untenable ? Is their antagonist infallible because they are liable to error ? The comments of modern Jews upon the Old Testament , are as littlt entitled to regard as those of Dr . Magee and his fellow-labourers : and it is
remarkable that Maimonides , who flourished in ' thr twelfth century , and who was eminent for his learning and good sense , does not countenance , even after our au . thor ' s due examination of him , the doctrine of vicarious satisfaction .
Of the treatment which he receives , in consequence , from the Illustrator , curious specimens occur in pp . 272 , 274 . By criticism of the same kind the Dean of Cork aims at setting aside Josephus ' s testimony respecting the nature of the several sacrifices of Cain and
Abel . 280 . We do not wonder that H . Taylor ' s objection of the want of a literal correspondence between the Mosaic sacrifice and the death of Christ was deemed by Dr . M . of sufficient importance
for a separate note [ XXXI V . J . It is , in truth , a very formidable objection . And the author of Ben Mordecaz ' s Letters has urged it with a force which the haughty sneers , the pompous periods arid
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ibe feeble reasoning of the writer before us are unable to impair . The question , after all , is one of fact " Will even the'&kjpn of Cork assert that the death of Christ corresponded literally with the Mosaic sacrifice ? He will
Dot venture upon any such assertion ! If therefore he be consistent vviih himself , let him not censure those who , in the use of their own judgment , which , upon this pcint , he must excuse them if they prefer to his , regard certain expressions as figurative which he
chuses to understand literally . He , too , is under the necessity of interpreting some of the phrases relating to Christ ' s' death . metaphoricall y * Are we then to be accused of ci labouring to convert the religion of Jesus into a system
of heathen morality , " because we are of opinion that he has not parried this principle of interpreta . iion to its just extent ? The next note [ XXXV , " On the arguments by which it is
attempted to prove the passover not to be a sacrifice" ] would have beefti more pertinent to this gentleman ' s plfrpose , could he have shewn that the paschal lamb was either expiatory or a substitution . We believe it to have been
emblematical , and nothing more . Nor is this idea of it at variance with the fact of its being termed [ Exod . xii . 27 ] cc the sacrifice of the Lord ' s passover . " Dr . Magee ' s parade of reading , and his accumulation of authorities for
the signification of the word , are
* We do not admire Geddes' translation of it ; skip-ojfering . Howler , * is far from being true , that this learned man was totally devoid of taste . His version of David's Elegy oa the Dcatn
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776 Review . —Dr . Magee on Atonement .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1814, page 776, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2447/page/48/
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