On this page
-
Text (1)
-
Untitled Article
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software. The text has not been manually corrected and should not be relied on to be an accurate representation of the item.
-
-
Transcript
-
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software. The text has not been manually corrected and should not be relied on to be an accurate representation of the item.
Additionally, when viewing full transcripts, extracted text may not be in the same order as the original document.
Untitled Article
Sturges , however , Nephew of the Bishop , upon the publication of the translation of the whole book in 1790 , addressed some " Short Remarks" to
our translator . * These chiefly respected a few particular passages ; and were soon replied to by Mr . Dodsoi * , in ' * A Letter to the Rev *
Dr . Sturges , author of Short Remarks on a New Translation of Isaiah . " t To this publication he prefixed his name , and very properly took occasion to speak of his opponent's remarks as beiug " the performance of a gentleman , a scholar and a Christian ;*'
characters which were acknowledged by Dr . Sturges in a private letter to be equally appropriate to the translator ' s vindication . € t I think myself , ' said he , " much obliged to you for the handsome terms in which you are pleased to speak of my performance and the manner in which I addressed
you ; and , however we may differ on critical and theological subjects , I beg leave to assure you , that I respect your literature and esteem your liberality . " Indeed , it is not assuming more than every " gentleman , scholar and Christian , * will readily concede to me , —to say , that our Layman ' s
Translation of the Prophet Isaiah , and his vindication of certain parts of it , after the same groundliad been trodden by one of the most acute and learned critics of his age , will remain decisive proofs of his great learning , sound judgment , and unaffected candour .
Mr . Dodson afterwards published , in the same " Commentaries and Essays , " " A Letter to the Rev . Mr . JEvauson , in Defence of his Principal
Object in his book , entitled , The Dissonance of the Four Generally Received Evangelists , and the Evidence of their respective Authenticity Examined" % He also left prepared for
* Entitled iC Short Remarks on a New Translation of Isaiah , by a Layman } with Notes Supplementary to those of Dr . Lowth , late Bishop of London , and containing' Kem arks on many parts of his Translation and Notes . In a Letter to th *
Author . By John Sturges , LL . D ., Chancellor of the Diocese of Winchester , and Chaplain in Ordinary to his Majesty . "Cadelljl 791 , pp . 37 . ~ f * Printed for J . Johnson , 1791 , pp . 2 & , \ Cam , and Essays , No . 4 , 1796 , IL ,
Untitled Article
the same vehicle of publication , and which has since been printed accordingly . — " A Dissertation on Ephes . iv # 7—1 $ , with a Postscript , containing other Critical Remarks .
313—346 . [ Yet it appears from the following- passag-e , that Mr . Dodson received a much more copious New Testatnent than Mr . Evanson : " I differ from you on several points ; hut I think that vou have succeeded in
your principal object . I cannot agree vnlh you in rejecting" any of the thirteen epistles , which hear the name of St . Paul , the authenticity of the Epistles to the Romans and Vhilippians , which contain some important prophecies since fulfilled , and of the Epistle to the Colossians , which ,
in chap . ii . 5 , represents the Apostle , at Rome , as miraculously seeing thing's transacted at Colosse , appearing * to me to be as well supported as the authenticity of the seven Epistles to the Corinthians , Galatians and Thessalonians , and to Timothy , which you admit ; and the external and !
internal evidence of the genuineness of the Epistle to the Ephesiaus , which , it is probahle , ought to be considered as addressed to the Laodiceans , * and of the Epistles to Titus and Plylemon , being-, in my opinion , too strong" to allow us to entertain any doubts about them . The observations
of Dr . Paley on this subject , in his Hares Paulina , deserve particular attention . As to the Epistle to the Hebrews ^ and the seven Catholic Epistles , and also the Epistles to the seven churches of Asia , in the beginning of the Apocalypse , which you reject . I forbear to inquire , whether you
are warranted in so doing , as it will be sufficient for my purpose if the thirteen epistles which bear the name of St . Paul are genuine . I also think , that you have unnecessarily , and on insufficient grounds , rejected some passages of St . Luke ' s g-ospel . " Com . and Ess . II . 313 , 314 . ]
* Com . and Essays , No . 5 , 1801 , If . 347—362 . " These observations , " says he , u are sxibmitted to the consideration of those who agree with Mr . Locke ( see his note on Eph . iv . 10 , III . 4 to . 572 ) ,
in thinking an impartial search into the true meaning- of the sacred Scripture the best employment of all th& time tee have ; and who join in wishing to see every difficulty in the citations from the Old , in the New Testament , satisfactorily cleared . *
[ Mr . Dodson left also <* A Fragment of Mr * Farmer ' s Manuscript Treatise on the History of Balaam . " This Treatise had * See Paley ' * Hor < E Pauling pp . 242 Stc-
Untitled Article
Memoir of Michael Dodson , Esq . 6 o #
-
-
Citation
-
Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1818, page 605, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2481/page/5/
-