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scwt with tl ^^ m ^ mmtude the former , apd disp ^ tciiiss him to the very place where , uiider the covert of darkness , the lattej ; had agreed to meet turn . Flesh arrives at the place appointed ; the Son of God drops his feigned appearance ,
and stands before her in the figure of her real husband . Thus he detects their guilt ; exposes the odious character of sin , and brings the partner of his crimes to merited punishment , Djvest the paragraph of its personification , and you have thissimple meaning : ' The Christian
, law , far surpassing all other laws in extent and efficacy , pronounces a person criminal , though his dimes may be unseen by man , arid though committed only in design . Extending its cognizance to the
tosom of men , beyond the reach of human discernment , it decides upon their characters from the motives and designs of their hearts , and thus detects and punishes sins , which pass undetected and unpunished by other laws / "—Pp . 99—101 .
We can only refer to Chap . vi . in which the author traces the personification of Natural and Moral Evil under the terms Satan , Devil , Serpent , &c . ; explains the Temptation of Christ , according to the scheme before maintained in his Illustrations of the Gospels , as internal and mental ; and shews that the Book of Job was written
in order to set aside the doctrine of an evil principle . The whole may be recommended to the theological student The Remarks on Mr . Bellamy ^ recent Translation of the Bible , out of which the work of Essenus grew , form
bat a small part of it , ana that , we tWnk , the least interesting part . Dr . Jones ranks himself , though unwillingly , amongst Mr . Bellamy ' s adversaries ; and he treats him with little ceremony .
" This gentleman seems to have been brought up amongst the rabbies , and to have drunk deep of their learning . But he has not been fortunate in th $ period of his birth . Had he . flourkbe ^ w the dark ages , he might have imposed . on the Public without impeachment , such mystic ^ undrums t ^ S ^^^ i ^ C p ^ i feb too much in the present enlightened state ° r criticism , to expect men to receive his Gjbalistic nonsense ; ti ^ ugfa dMiveitft JJjh the authority of an oracle . "—146 ,
f fc- Bellamy has translated the ac-S « I 1 S ? # ^ w ^ ^ r 4- ~ 44 , * $ follows : vol . xv . 2 h
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m €€€ 21 . Now Jehovah God , caused an inactive state , to fall upon the man , and he slept ; th ^ ii he brought oxai to his side , whose flesh he had enclosed in her place * 22 . Thus Jehovah God built the
substance of the other , which he took fo / the man , even a woman ; and he brought her to the man . 23 . And the man said , Thus this time , bone after my bone , also flesh after my Hesli : for this he will call woman ; because she was received by the man . 24 . Therefore a man will leave
even his father and his mother : for he will unite with his wife ; and they shall be for one flesh . — Pp . 147 , 148 . To this new translation , Dr . Jones makes some valid critical objections , and then returns an answer to Mr . Bellamy ' s moral reasons against the common acceptation of the passage , in which he maintains an almost equally heretical theory :
, " Suppose the creation of the woman from the rib of the man to be one of the deep and hidden operations of God—Is it not an operation equally deep and hidden , that every man ever since should come
from under the ribs of a woman ? And yet this last is proved by universal experience . But if the analogy from experience be not a sufficient jreply , we may , without any violence to the language of Moses , consider the whole scene as a
vision , presented by God himself to teach Adam and his posterity a very beautiful moral lesson . It willfoe readily allowed , I presume , that a wife , if such as she ought to be , is a moral security to her husband , and ought in return to be an object of his endearment ; ' that , as she originally came from his side , she ought ever to be at his side , even in preference to father : and mother . Of this lesson
the rib was an appropriate symbol , it being from its position , at once a security to the heart , and witness of its feelings , and a supporter of its functions . * God , * says Moses , * brought a deep sleep on Adam / He thus caused him to see in the vision of a dream , or as Milton says , in a trance , one of his ribs , and some of hid flesh taken away by his Creator , and
formed or , as it is in the original , built into a woman . Adam , On opening bis eyes , beheld with delight and surprise , her who was designed to become his mate ; and . he exclaims : * This woman is made after my own image , and is , moreover , bone of my bones aifcel fl&gh of my flesh ;—being thus intended tot tar wife , and made to be one with myself , she shall take upon he * my n # fiife ;*~ I * B . 157 * . M 6 . - ' ¦ t y" \ '\ yy ' ' \ \ We had marked some btW pftSr
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BM of Review . A —New Version of the Three First Chapters of Genesis . 233
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1820, page 233, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2487/page/41/
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