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shop Lowth and Mr . Dodsoiu One of the Hebrew words of which tP sense is here investigated , clearly means tqllo , auftro—to 4 akt % carry or bear away . We select a single instance oat of nu .
inerous examples : 1 Sam * xvii . 34 , To interpret the term , when connected with rtm word sins , of a substitution , is altogether arbitrary .
If our author thought his reasoning in No . XLHI [ " On the Inconsistency of the Argument whereby the Death of Christ is maintained to have been hxiXfigUm ratively a sacrifice" ] of importance , he should have incorporated it with note the thirty-fourth . It does not call for additional
observations . The three sentences which compose No . XLIV [ " On the nature of the Sacrifice for sin **] prove that Dr . Magee ' s ideas on atone . ment are confused and indistinct . We refer to our remarks on No . XL .
He does well to treaty in No . XLV , ot the effect of the doc trine of atonement in producing sentiments favourable to virtue and religion . " Virtue and religion can have no existence where there is no
hope of Divine Mercy . But th « popular doctrine of atonement exhibits only "the rigid satisfaction , death [ for death ; " though , hapfoily , the clear declarations of
scripture respecting the unpurchascd goodness of God , have a greater practical influence upon men than metaphysical creeds and elaborate deductions .
Dr . Magee ' s second volume opens with a note [ XLVI ] " On * £ supposition that Sacrifice originated ia Prisstcraft . " It is a supposition to which , in our jud gment , ji 6 regard is due : nor
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wa s it necessary that the Dean of Cork should write a single sentence upon so gratuitous a theorjr * There is considerable ambiguity in the title of No . XLVII , arid no trifling difference between the
statement and the illustration 6 f the proposition * The Dean of Cork professes to animadvert tin V the supposition that the Mosaic sacrifices originated in human
invention : " and he enumerates Maimonides , Justin Martyr ^ CHrysostom , Grotius , &c % among the supporte r * of this opinion . We own that we were startled at the
list ; because we had been accus * tomed to reckon those distinguished names among th « most enlighte n * ed believers in the divine legation of Moses . Nor was it long before we perceived that our / yaibrous knight-errant had mistdken a
windmill for a giant : for the supposition he combats , is net that the Mosaic sacrifices originUted ^ strictly speaking , in humarv iru vention * but that sacrifice was an
accommodation to the prejudices of the Jewish people . Such it might be , and yet after ally be # in respect of its obligation topon the children of Israel * a diviiiely instituted rite . There is a real
distinction in the two propositions * As to the question at issue between Spencer and Witsius i we doubt ; whether there are sufficient data for determining it , and in * deed whether it is of any great
practical importance . On the whole , we agree with the Illustrator in his commendation of Dn Graves's work on the four last books of the Pentateuch , * and with the sentiments expressed in Dr . Priestley ' s Dissertation + on
* Mem . Rcpos . Vol . VI . 1 73 * i&C * f Nou * on Script . Vol . I . 375-i « ioo .
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Review . —Dr . Magee on Atonement , 779
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1814, page 779, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2447/page/51/
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