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    the Mosaic Institutions . Let not the DVan of Cork be surprised that some of the later theological

    publications of this truly excellent man are superior to those of his youth . For our author himself we can scarcely form a better wish than that in his future

    productions we may discover ' * a soberer interpretation of scripture , " anct strong signs of " comparative moderation . " However , we shall not soon forget that most of the

    quotations he makes from the great writer whom he is so eager to attack , are supplied by an anonymous and a very early essay . iC Sacrifices" have been

    explained as gifts by various writers ;" on which explanation Dr . M . of . ferssome stricturesin No . XLVII 1 . Whether this view of sacrifices be correct or otherwise , we will not take upon ourselves to decide . But we have no hesitation in saying that the Dean of Cork has cited and condemned the

    sentiments of Spencer , H . Taylor , and Priestley , without confuting them . With some few exceptions , we muchadmire the Essay , to which he has referred us , in tbe Tkeolog . Report : * rand it has not escaped

    our / attention that the word by which : the daily sacrifices in the sanctuary are commonly described , -signifies a gijt . *\ . Tfa $ m ^ a . re those who re gard 'sacrificesas federal rites [ No . XLtX ^ l ; against which idea also our . JHttt * £ rator protests . As we

    do pjQtjtnatenaily dissent from his reas ^ jQj ^^ an' this note , we forbear to d «^ l-Jq ^ p ori it , and only add , thatJEte * Sykes and others seem to have ^ hie ^ iriHteetrtiyed' into the ims ^ take'fe 4 lB ^ tGen «« red , by the practice of connecting *' feasts with $ acrifice »^^ wirfch-- ^ was so common —;—t ,,. r ; Atlz \ mi % w •¦ ¦ i ,,, ^ * Vol . l . 195 , &c , t Heb , mincha . "

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    among the ancients * A familiar example of it occt ^ rs in Zenaphom Memorab . L . II . c . iii . § 11 , as likewise in C . ix . § 4 . i ( - Bishop Warburton ' s Theory of the origin of Sacrifice * [ No . L . ]

    is that the whole of it was symbolical . This is an ingenious and plausible hypothesis , and cannot , we might imagine , be very unacceptable to the Illustrator , who

    has spoken of sacrifices that were vicarious in symbol ! Even when language has attained its greatest perfection , certain actions are far more expressive than any words which can be uttered .

    The fifty-first should have made part of the forty-eighth note : for it is entitled " The supposition that Sacrifices originated in the Idea of Gifts , erroneous . " Dr . M * here opposes an hypothesis whicb >

    probably , is unfounded , by ano * ther not less questionable , by the notion that Jabal , the eighth from Adam , was the first possessor of individual property ! .

    As to the dale of the permission of animal food to man [ No . LU ] , we concur in opinion with this writer , that it was subsequent to the deluge . Sykes ' s arguments had been noticed previously by

    Jennings , in his Jewish Antiquities : and those of Heidegger only shew the precariousness of the theological reasoning which has no other support than a nicety of

    verbal criticism . The origin of sacrifice , however , is still obscure : nor would Outramt venture to pronounce whether it were divine or human .

    Concerning that of language there seems less room [ LIII ] for doubt . We regard it , with the Dean of Cork , as divine ; being X De Satri / iciis , fife , p , 11 ( i 677 ) *

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    780 Review . —Dr . Magee on Atonejncijkt *

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1814, page 780, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2447/page/52/