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between Mm who utters forth his thanksgivings * praises and supplications before . his God , extemporaneous ly and readily , and him who cannot , is , that the former has , by practice , improved his talent and turned it to proper account * while the latter has hid his in the ground , until the rust
and canker have either destroyed , otf rendered it useless . If , therefore , ewtentpore-jyr&yer be of such vast importance as has been endeavoured to be shewn ; and if a facility to perform it be to be acquired by practice , ( as t think it is >) surely no exertions for iu attainment can possibly be too great . H . CLARKE .
P . S . Some time since , it was thought necessary , by the Unitarian congregation in this place , to introduce some new regulations into their public worship . These were , that each individual offer Up a private ejaculation to God , on his first entrance ; that the congregation stand during singing , and kneel
during prayer ; and that a solemn pause should succeed the service , to enable every one again to breathe forth a short secret prayer . Should any , or all of . these be esteemed worthy of adoption by other congregations , I shall congratulate myself oh the recollection of having supplied the stimulus .
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Dr . J . Jones on D ?\ Srnzth ' s Critique on Phil . ii . 5 * IN perusing Dr . Smith ' s critique on Phil , ii , 5 , a few observations suggested themselves to me , which I cannot withhold from the Repository , though I have before made the passage a subject of discussion . That able and learned divine thus renders the verse :
* Who ( though ) existing in the form of God , did not esteem it an object to be caught at to be on a parity with God . " 1 . I observe that 7 < ra . < 5 > £ < w is a parallelism with w j" © j >> 55 ® eov ; and is therefore but a varied expression of the same idea ; and as the latter means a form or appearance of God , so the farmer means to be like God , and not
to be equal with God , as rendered ki the common version , or to be on -a parity with God , as rendered by Dr . S . 2 . The verbal nouns in pa . or poq in Greek , denote not the action of their respective verbs , but an object or adjunct of that action . Thus paimo-fAcc . signifies
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not an act of baptizing , but the right of baptism $ < ptd * n ? wo <; , illumination and not the act of illuminating ; ^ ctjwo ^ , ( from d * d > , to bind *) & tebhig that binds , a bond , and not the actkm of binding % Srtar jfe 4 H , Cfrom &eto , to lay , ) a thing krid < Jown , a law * and not the act of laying-. And
though instances of equivocal meaning may doubtless oqcur , this fe > the genius of the language through its whole extent- Analogy therefore requires the term &Q * tayfM <; % & mean a thing to be
caught or seized * and thusDr . S . has properly translated the word . Btffc what is most material to observe is , that the passage is elliptical ; and the supply of the ellipsis will render the whole at once obviotts and natural .
eOs £ V fxop < f ) ff 0 B 6 v vnvapxicy b % ccprary ^ vjyyxra . TO to etvou 7 < T& ® s $ { & <; Bocvcctov wxarpfva-ouTo ) afchou ( tov « 2 Vom Tcra ® £ < w ) i&vTov SKsiMxre . .. itou . .. traiteivtocrzv iavrov . . . ( A ^ XV Qa . vcc . TQv : i . e . who
being in a form of God , did not thipk his being like God a thing to be caught at , in order to rescue himself from death ; on the contrary , he divested himself of that divine form , and humbled himself to death . **
Now a form of God can only mean a divine or splendid form ; and thus it stands opposed to the "form of a slave / 9 or a mean and humble form . The question then is , Whether there was any occasion in which our Lord before his death assumed a splendid
form calculated to inspire those around him with the hopes that he should not die ? If such an occasion existed , to this the apostle must allude . After he had fully assured his disciples that he
must go to Jerusalem to suffer , we read that he went up to a high mountain with three of his disciples , and there assumed an appearance before them bright as the sun , and was seen to converse with Moses and Elias \ Peter
was distressed at the prospect of the fate that awaited his Divine Master ; and he instantly seized the present occasion as a happy omen of his deliverance from the impending £ vil , exclaiming , < c It is good for us to be here ,
let us make three tents , one for thee , one for Moses , and one for Elias z " which means , " Let us stay here , and not now go to Jerusalem ; for when the report of this noble appearance will go abroad , the whole nation will * gather here ; and even the rulers , when they
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Df . J . Jones on Dr . Smiths ' Critique on Phil . ii . 5 . 535
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1821, page 535, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2504/page/31/
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