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Ills Varite Lectioues can have any doubt . The Improved Version is , I think , under ho great obligations to such a defender as B » I was willing to believe , ( and indeed never had any suspicion to the contrary , ) that the
misstatement there arose merely from the blundering way in which the note is jumbled up in the London edition * or from overlooking the Appendix in the second edition , which might easily happen . B ., however * has made the blunder to be of a more serious
character , . and on that account I am glad to have drawn some attention to the subject , that it may be corrected , and not offer such vantage ground to the host of Philistines , who would be glad to avail themselves , if they observed it , of such an opportunity to revile our critical sagacity or honesty .
I may at a future opportunity claim vour insertion of a few historical or critical observations upon this MS . which is thus rendered very interesting * , inasmuch as it is important to inquire what degree of authority its patronage may be considered as imparting to a reading which is found
in no other MS . of any note ; although one would suppose , that if the Vatican were of such high antiquity as is generally believed and considered to be proved , and that this is its original reading , many would have been found of the same school , and adopting the same readings .
I would only observe afc present , that its reputation has been a good deal questioned among critics , though Birch seems to have brought it very much into credit again . It is extremely to be regretted that Griesbach did not live to superintend another edition of his work , so far as
regards , at any rate , the Acts of the Apostles , the notes and text of which were all printed , without the assistance of the Vatican Collations ; for it is quite etenr , that the additional information would have occasioned ( particularly in the present passage ) a complete revision , and it would have
turned that most excellent critic ' s peculiar attention to the weight of authority which this deviation of the Vatican tttm the other ancient MS 8 . ( more eftpecially the Alexandrine ) which It in gehtr&t cldaer follows ) can |>* abtifthlered m giving to the
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exploded reading © £ »• I confess the anomaly makes me much doubt the correctness and fairn ess of the retouch * iflg hand , which it is * well known has been employed in many places on the MS . in question , and I hope to have
an opportunity of more closely ; . examining , than 1 have yet been able , into the exact age and authenticity of the writing in this precise verse $ but this is not easily done since the removal of the MS . from Paris to Rome ,
as it is not yet replaced in its old situation , but is kept with considerable jealousy ; I suppose for fear the French should steal it out of revenge . I beg leave still to subscribe myself in name , though , I trust , the length of this explanation will prevent my subject from remaining , OBSCURUS .
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Passages from Philo imd Jasephus respecting Christ and his Religion . 449
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Sir , June 5 > 1818-IN Joseph us , B . 1 . Lib . ii . C . 20 > $ 2 , we meet the following extraordinary passage : •* The people of Da ^ mascus were eager to destroy the Jews in that city : and having from suspicion already collected and confined
them in the Gymnasium , they thought the attempt to put them to death would be very easy . But they dreaded their own wives , all of whom , with few exceptions , were brought under obedience to the Jewish worship .
They , therefore , earnestly endeavoured to conceal their design from the women : and thus they attacked the Jews , who , as being crowded in a narrow place , and without arms , were in one day easily slain to the amount often thousand . "
The gospel was preached at Damascus even before the conversion of Paul ; and an honourable mention ia made of Ananias as one of its distinguished votaries . This was the city in which the apostle of the Gentiles commenced his great eomniissioh tto
convert and reform the Pagan Wortd ; and the result of his zeal , united With that of his brethren , is here stated by Josephwfe Christianity , < whe « i flwt ottered th the Gentiles , triuat h&ve been more favourably t-eceived by the
women than hy the mi * n . The female aw * jt had hitherto toten cruelly de * glided ; ftfrd th <* fcfcimiple of Jtsti * , and the spirit of thfc gOspfet j * * Mtd a difrect teitttantty io raise thtfttk to I heir ptopcv level in thfe seafcb oi society-
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1818, page 449, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2478/page/41/
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