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    cb . " $ t 6 » 25 > '"• > 8 » ^* * n tnese passages it uniformly signifies existimo , arbitror , and is so translated by Jerome . It is likewise invariably used in the same sense by other writers of the flew Testament ; as , Pet . ii . I 3 , ~ y $ ov 7 ) v yyovpsvoi TYjV r cv yju . epa . rpvpyv * and iii . I 5 f Ka * rY ) v rov ^ UP ^ "rj v * ouv [ lolkqofjvt / 'i&v ( rivrypictv yysicrVa . Nor is there a single passage in which it could be

    rendered as Dr . A . would render it here , secnm volvere , animo ayitare . Had it been the intention of the apostle to express the idea contained in these phrases , the Greek language was not so meagre and barren as to be destitute of correspondent expressions , nor was Paul such a novice in it as to be

    at a loss in what terms to clothe his own sentiments . The subjects , indeed , on which he treated in his Epistles , were often so new and so far removed from the common apprehensions of mankind , that he found it necessary , on some occasions , to use words in a

    sense peculiar to himself ; though he introduced them only where the connexion appeared particularly to require it , and was uniform and consistent in the application of them . Another objection to Dr . Alexander ' s proposed version of this passage , is , that the prepositive article before

    wou , ( admitting his sense of yjysofACCi to be a legitimate one , ) should have been put in the genitive , and not in the accusative case , since the sivui tree < £ > Ecv will then be governed by ttpifxyfAOV , and not placed in apposition with it . Why , too , has not Dr . A , seen the proprietv of rendering

    aptayfxov by some word more consistent with his views of the passage , than the one already coined to his hand in the public version ? To raise ourselves to an equality with our superiors , may justly be regarded as an assumption of privileges to which we have no peculiar title ; but it is , it can be , no robbery . is

    . v floppy 0 £ « vifap ^ ouv correctly rendered , " though in the form ° fGod . " Hoogeveen , in his remarks upon the particle ytantzp , ( Doctrin-Pa rticul . Ling . Graec . p . 276 , Glass .

    Ed . ) says , " Ad usum ellipticum quod attinet , triplex est : nain ( i ) vel abest X ( X-h ( ii ) nonnunquam deest irep 9 % ( iii ) est et obi totum hoc xoctTTEp intelligendum relinquitur : " and he subjoins ,

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    as an instance of the third rule , Gal . iv . 1 . ( Evp * otov xpovov 6 K \ r ) povofAO $ vYjift cz £$ ~ iv , oi ' ftev Siapspei Ss \ s Kvpiog TTotvrcuv uov , ) where the application of ouv- is very similar to that of

    virctoyajv in the present instance , though ihe construction is infinitely more harsh . But I am the more confirmed as to the propriety of this rendering , from having lately met with some expressions in Clement ' s Epistle , ( ch . xvi . ) where there is an evident allusion to the whole of the passage under consideration .

    Clement was Bishop of Rome , and contemporary with the apostles ; and is mentioned by Paul , ( Phil . iv . 3 , ) among his fellow-labourers in the gospel * whose names are recorded in the booh of life . The Epistle which he wrote to the Corinthians , contains

    many passages in w . hk-. h a similarity may be traced to passages in the New Testament , and particularly to some in the writings of Paul , of which they are almost a literal transcript . JLardner , in the second part of his

    Credibility , chap . n . has pointed out nearly forty such instances , and has enumerated among others Philip , ii . 5—7 , which corresponds with the introductory part of Clement ' s ^ th chapter . Tatf £ ivo < ppo \> ovvTcvv yoip er * v 6 Xpirog ,

    OVK eTT 0 Llp 0 [ J'EVOU l / BTti TO 'KOlfrVlOV CCVT& To GKYfrtrpov TY , g ( jLsyocK . acrv ^ Yj g rou < £ > £ 6 V , 6 Ttvpiog rj J' - cjv Xpiros Yr ^ o vg ^ ovk ^ xQay sy koutTcv oc ^ &Zovsiotg ov $ e V 7 i' £ pr ( paviag 9 nccitf ^ p Svvcc / j . evof aWa Toots iv oeppovouv . For Christ is theirs

    who are humble , and who do not exalt themselves over his fioeh . The sceptre of the majesty of God , our Lord Jesus Christ 9 came not in the shew of pride and arrogance , though he might have done so ; but with humility .

    If the preceding remarks are well founded , the following may , perhaps , be regarded as a correct translation of the passage . " Let this mind be in you , which was also in Christ

    Jesus ; who , though he was in the form of God , deemed not the being equal with God , a thing to be violently seized upon , but emptied himself , and assumed the form of a

    servant , " &c . In the phrase ev poppy ® eov Dr . Alexander conceives that " the allusion is to the transfiguration on thr Mount , where Jesus assumed a cW-

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    Biblical Criticism . —Remarks on Dr . Alexander on Philip , ii . 5—11 . 6 ? £

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1817, page 679, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2470/page/39/