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    ones , " &c- Harsh as are the language and the sentiment , criticism will not permit us to substitute any thing for diem , at the hazard of violating all the rules of analogy and evidence . The original words caunot be fairly translated , " dash thy idols * to the ground : " and the propriety and spirit of the two concluding verses would be destroyed by such an alteration . Besides , this part of the Psali » is not imprecatory , but prophetic : it represents , in exact aud lively colours , an cveut hereafter to take place , and wonderfully accords with Isaiah ' s prediction , xiii . 16 , of the same circumstance , " their children also shall be

    dashed to pieces before their eyes . See likewise ver . 18 , of that chapter . Philip , ii . 5—1 ] , — " iu the form of God" Why should we conceive that

    an allusion f is here intended , exclusively or specifically , to " the transfiguration on the mount ; " when the phraseology was justified and illustrated by the whole series of our Saviour ' s miracles ?

    «¦ — thought it not robbery , ' &c . Translate , with the Editors of the Improved Version , " did not eagerly grasp at the resemblance to God . " The verb yyyyvafro means , considered , esteem ed * &c , and will not bear to be Teadexedbytli&ughtof , or meditated :

    aor is apfoctyfjua , robbery > , but something U be seized . " — the frnmoft of a servant . " Here , again thealfusion is general ; agreeably to what our Lovd himself says , Matt . xx , £ 8 * *« The Son of man came not

    to be ministered unto , but to minister , " and , in another passage , Luke * xii . % 7 % «* I am among you as one that ** neth > " The form of a servant , 18 resemblance to a servant : the form «/ GW , is resemblance to God .

    •• Given him a name / ' &c—* * ha * in the nmme , " Ace . The word **** 4 lias no double sense in this pa-¦ ' ^ wph , but signifies throughout it , ** the mediatorial character of Jeaun £ h ritf j ' to which effect is th « clause ^ ihat every tongue vfo&nld confess , "

    &c . Concerning the doctrine of ike fi * rf mrtitwtion of ail men to virtue a t& hmppint 9 § 9 the passage before ** *• profoundly sftent j every tongue jj ^ ttfpy kaQC signifying « 4 the whole ¦ townaii race / ' Gentiles as well (* s Jews . - ^_ N . Won . Repot . XII . p . 617 . f Ib -

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    biblical Criticism . —Mr * Jones on . Epaphroditus . 7 $ 7

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    December 4 , IS 17 * Sir , AM obliged to your Correspon-I dent A . X . [ pp . 674 , 675 , ] for bringing under review the subject of Epaphroditus . I will attempt to establish the facts stated in my Eccles . Researches , and I shall feel additional

    obligation , if he or any other of your readers will refute my statement . The right plan is to plac <* before the reader , all that is said about him , from which we can draw any conclusion . And

    thus says our apostle , Philip , ii . 25 , — ** I thought it necessary to send you Epaphroditus , my brother and fellowlabourer and fellow-soldier , your ambassador and minister to my wants , for he greatly longed after you all , and was full of anguish , because ye had heard that he was innrtrf , and indeed

    he was infirm , so as to be nigh unto death ; but God had pity on him , and not on him only , but on me also , lest I should have sorrow upon sorrow ; receive him , therefore , in the Lord with all joy , and hold such in estimation ; because for the work of Christ he was near death , having hazarded his life to fill up the deficiency of your

    service toward me . " Suetonius , Ch . 14—19 , " Domitian condemned Epapliroditus , his Se * cretary , because he is supposed to have assisted Nero in destroying him self : and finally , his own cousrn * Flav . Clement , a man of the most cjespicajble

    inertness , he put to death , though l * e had as yet hardly laid down the Con ^ - sulship . " Dion Cassius , Lib . 77—r ! 4 » " In this same year , Domiiian put to death , with many others , Clepapnt , the Consul , for the crime of impiety , and for having embraced the Jewish institutions , Epaphroditus , a

    freedman of Nero , whom he had before banished , he then slew , upder the charge of not having supported NeroJ In tae beginning of bis Antiquities , Josephus thus writes : —* ' There were some who , from their love to th | s subject , have encouraged me to undertaji ^

    it , and especially Epapbroditus , a man who excels in eve > ry branch of lifcera * ture ; more particularly ia the lwowv ledge of history ; having beeii him * e # engaged in the un&n ^ Gwmt pf important affairs , and cxpervenced many vicissitudes of fortune : iji all w fcid ^ he displayed a tpind wpod ^ rf « Hy po Wr erful , and an inflexible adherence to

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1817, page 727, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2471/page/31/