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the adjective agreeable being substituted ( certainly by a typography ical inadvertency ) for agreeabl y * In No . XXXVII . the Dean of Cork treats of € i the efficacy of the Mosaic atonement as applied Aq cases of moral transgression . "
Most of this note is employed by him in an ineffectual attempt to set aside the reasoning of a very able critic , who published an *• Essay on Atonement , " in the third volume of the u Theological Repository , " under the signature Eusebius . This accurate writer has evinced that a great part of the appointed atonements bore no relation at all to moral character :
and he accounts satisfactorily for the exceptions . We are almost perpetually at a loss to know what Dr . M . understands by the doctrine of atonement . In note XXXVIII . [ " On
the vicarious import of the Mo « saic sacrifices" ] he tells us that < c the offering of the animal slain in sacrifice , may be considered vicarious in symbol ^ ( or as re p re - senting the penal effects of the offerer ' s demerits , and his release — . v m -W a * - » m * " *¦»• mm * •*** ¦ * % ^/ B - *• * . » V- » +-A M . < J A XS •¦ ^ % J * W ^*
from the deserved punishment [ in consequence of the death of the victim" ) . Our author may explain his own views and language as he pleases : but we submit , in the first place , whether there be not a material difference between what
is vicarious in symbol , and what is vicarious in nature and effect , and next , whether his representation of the case derive any countenance from the scriptures ? Had
he forgot ten moreover , that in p . 63 , he spokf of the transfer to the animal of the iniquities of the people ? Was this in symbol 7 or was it real ? In a note [ XXXIX ] , " On the Imposition of Hands upon the
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quite superfluous . He would have been better employed in attending to Bishop'Pearce ' s letters to Dr . Waterland . We agree with the learned Dean [ XXXVI . ] that the meaning of the original term , in the Old Testament , which has been translated atonement , is 6 i modelled like that of other scripture phrases , so as to fall in with the theories of those who are more
anxious that scripture should speak their , language , than that they should speak the language of scripture . " This statement is obviously and pointedly applicable to Dr . M . himself . Doubtless , the primary sense of a word
is the first which every true critic will investigate ; and from this he will deduce , as well as he is able , its secondary signification or significations . And whether the primary meaning be generic or
specific , is a totally distinct consideration . The import of the word atonement in the Old Testament we have no difficulty in pronouncing to be covering . Here Dr . Taylor and our author seem to coincide . They differ in this , that the former ascertains the
nature of the Levitical atonement from the use of the expression extra-levitically ; while the other , having previously assumed that atonement denotes something expiatory or vicarious , explains the w <> rd in conformity with a
theological hypothesis . Which of them models the scripture phrase ° ur readers will easily determine . Some of the sentences in p . 324 , are singularly obscure ; the members of them being involved , and
Jf Saul , &c . .. is a proof of the contrary . Unhappil y his style was corrupted by <* otic terms and idioms . Nor is Dr , Ogee ' s uniformly pure .
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Review . Dr . Magefe on Atonement . 777
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vol . ix . 5 n
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1814, page 777, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2447/page/49/
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