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    I now take my leave of this passage . Enough , 1 hope , has been saw ! to justify the interpretation which Dr . Alexander has given of it in his exceltent paper . I cheerfully acknowledge the merits of your Correspondent C . A * E * His

    critical talents and the direction of them to the Scriptures are highly creditable t& his heart and head : a » 4 your readers cannot but be pleased to see the fruits of them occasionally inserted in the Repository . JOHN JONES ,

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    must either rest our whole cause on the ! authprity of the reading * " tl > e Lord ,. ' * or allow the pr ^ -existence oi Jesus , unless some other interpretation can be offered . By this consideration I am induced to propose another ex pi ana ti on , which appears to me less objectionable than either of the others * supposing that

    we retain the common reading . It is simply this : I suppose that the apostle considered the Israelites as trying Christ , when they tried those miraculous manifestations which God gave them as types of him . Ijhtaik it 13 needless to prove that the word 44 tried , " in such a passage as tkis , means , put to proof or trial by disbelief and dissatisfaction : and by the account of the transaction referred to , which is given in Numbers xxi . it appears that the offence of the 1 sraelites $ vas > that they pqt to such a trial the pro »

    vision which God had made to supply them with bread aricj water . Now it must be allowed , that it would not be very obvious to us to consider this as trying Christ , because the po * inexiou is not obvious between Christ and this bread and water . But we

    must consider not only that our Jbord declares that he was the truth and substance , of that bread whteh > canoe down from heaven , but what is much more pertinent , that Paul in a closely preceding verse asserts , tbat the Rock

    which supplied the Israelites in the desert was Christ ; meaning , _ ajs is generally understood * that it prefigured or represented Christ * Now we me from this ,, that the apostle in applying the events in the wilderness to the

    circumstances of the Christians , which is his drift throughout the passage , Was considering certain things in that old dispensation , as representing Christ in the new 5 or to use his words , as being Christ spiritually . May w ^ not suppose , then , that wIicb he says 4 they tried Christ , " he rneaut U

    spiritually , that is * by iJistrustm ^ j . rejecting those emblems which spiritually vfere Christ ? To me this appears not at all improvable ;; but wishing to submit it to the judgment of your readers , to sproe of wliom , perhaps , the ideamay jioibe iu *\ v > 1 venture to beg a fcoJumn of jour Repository .

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    Sir , Clapham , May % 5 , 1813 . MAY I ask a place among your Biblical Critieiswia for a suggestion regarding the passage which occurs in 1 Cor . x . 9 : * ' Neither let us try the Anointed as some of them also tried * ' ? This passage is confessedlv rather difficult * and various

    interpretations have beee proposed . One is , that we should read u the L-ord , " instead of " the Anointed , " which would certainly completely disembar * r&SB us , if the authority of this reading were uiiexceptiotiatole * But this is far from being tfoe case , and most of

    the greatest critics , including even Griesbach himself , while they allow a probability to this reading , -yet decidedly prefer th ^ common on& There appears to be a nais-statement in the

    note of the Improved Yersion at this place , which would lead one to suppose that CS ^ esbach preferred reading " the Lord ^ how t his arose I cannot say , foot the true sta 1 ; e of the case will be decided by reference to the second edition of Grresbach ' s Testament .

    This interpretation , therefore , though by no means to be fbrg 0 tteti r as there is good evidence in its favour , is certainly not satisfactory . That again which would supply the word >*• God , cwr some other-, at the end , after the

    verb «* tried , " instead of referring that verb to the preceding object , seems barely tolerable , especially when we regainl the force of th « Greek construction * Another would consider the term Anointed a& applicable to both Clirist and Moses : but in answer

    ^ t may fee fudged , that in the whole Bibtjs tlvere te no instance of this Utle fcwwig mte tatter ifppticationv We ^ e wdftccd tlten to x&lemmn } we

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1818, page 393, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2477/page/49/