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    effieieaejtto the measure / them are not wm £ ifi 0 ££ &a&m * " w * fitifour of a new translation of the Holy Scriptures Biblical learriing , it is true , does not seem to feeJ ; he baronet ' s most honour able distinction : he confounds

    togather translation and interpretation , the adjustment of the text and the disclosure of the sense of the sacred writers : he commends ^ too , what we presume , no man of solid erudition and judgment e « ar commend , the labours of Mr . John Bellamy . From

    such objectors and such critics the R . V . has nothing to apprehend . A judicious revision of it is all that we desire : great as are its merits , it is the translation of a text confessedly incorrect ; nor can the phraseology of

    the sixteenth , or evfen of the beginning of the seventeenth be always intelligible to persons living in the nineteenth century . These , we think , are sufficiently powerful arguments , without the aid of merely theological considerations , for such a revision as we have

    intimated $ and these , we should hope , might approve themselves even to Mr . Todd , whom , like Sir J . Bland Surges , we hail chiefly in the primrose path of literature .

    The author of the " Plain Statement / ' &c . and our reader ^ wil l pardon us for this digression , if they sa e § tee # a it . —We return with pleasure to Mr . Wallace . His remarks

    on the two narratives of the miraciklous birth of Jesus , at the beginning of the respective gospels of Matthew and Luke , we hare perused with much approbation : it is a very ingenious conjectnre that certain parts of these introductory chapters are borrowed

    from Exod . i . 22 , ii . 15 , iv . 19 ; and from 1 Sam . L 3 , 24 , ii , 26 , ii * . 19 . ( Pp . 91 , S } £ . ) But as to all or moat of the passages which $ lie f ^ itors of the t V . have priiil ^ d m italics , we believe that ( critical Justice rather calla for their being included within - brackets . We take the liberty eft refeiringf to Itule

    xix .. p . 363 , in Arehbi ^ hojp iN eweprae ' s Hist . View , &c . This course we should pursue # | regard to the much agitated passage jj ^ Joaephua ^ wep it our lot to <; arry a , ' raw ; ^ tipn Qjf t&a * hi storian thr < 5 H * gfc : jjgfo ' $ * $ & $ ? Nn j&rt mWr ; , W / & pcpnjbhl ^ refleets more hxftwnir on him thap that in which he ariintodv ^ ts oh a ldte * Inquiry iwto thfe integrity of the

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    Greek Vulgate /* &c . To these strictures he | is naturally led by lu ^ notice of John vii . 53 , viii . 11 . Nbtfeing can be more complete than his defence of the editors of the L-V ^ &ld'fefa victory over Mr . N ^ lan , whose eahtiftny of Eusebius of Oaesarea our author

    skilfiitly exposes , and'the niisoiindness of whose critical system he 6 \ e 3 i $ y illustrates . Rendering him our s ^ nfe ^ e thanks for his services in the cdiiie of truth , and expressing our satisfaction that he is so well qualified to fulfil his office as a Christian minister * we

    entreat his leave to employ the short remainder of this article in making a few observations on Mr . Nolan , This gentleman seems ambitious that his Inquiryy &c . should be looked upon as supplementary to Dr . Kennicott ' s Inquiry into the State qf the

    Hebrew Text ? &c . Very slender is the probability of its gaining the same exalted reputation , or even of its surviving the present age . Between the execution of the two performances , in point of style and method , of

    testimony and reasoning , there subsists a striking difference ; nor less obvious is the contrast in the objects of them ; Dr . K . endeavouring ( with much success ) to restore , but Mr . N . to perpetuate , a corrupted text .

    A more Jiasty , indigested and confused production than his Inquiry , &c has seldom been presented to the world : its language is obscure and involved , its arrangement disorderly ; it abounds in needless and

    innumerable repetitions , and is characterised by those thepiogical prepossessions which utterly disqualify a man for : being an able biblical scholar . They are pointless weapons with which Mr , N . attacks the memories of ** the *

    illustrious dead , " EuseMua and Origen : it would appear that , in the conviction of some men , false accusation is essential to the support of the orthodox belief and to the ovfcithrovir of heresy .

    From Mr . Nolan ' a cloudy pages we select &p . § specimen of hifc godS £ aith and candour , or perhaps of hfe felicity as a translator . He ventures ^ O viSM ^ e EwebSas ttitfr having suppressed John vii . 53 , viii . 11 ; and on wh » t * fbuhda tioa is this charge * erected ? Why , truly , the historian " \ v&a $ (> & neither thfe power nor the Mil * ^ ttfawr to mutilate the Sei ^ rtur ^ . Not' the wilt , because he % va » an Arion , br sonrie-

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    Revtefr * ^* U < && * Pl ^ x ifir Sta tement of the Doc tr ine * if Unkarian ism . 47

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1820, page 47, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2484/page/47/