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than those of the world : the ashes of the departed good plead with resistless eloquence in the cause of virtue : a beam bursts forth even from the tomb , and points to the path of duty as the path of glory . O may the sacred spirit spread around ! May so bright an example be ever before her young
survivors to animate them to an imitation of her usefulness ! May her tender offspring , through the pious care of an afflicted father , penetrated with a sense of the worth he once possessed , and the memory of which he must ever cherish , fan the glorious flame till it burst forth in their lives , with equal
force , and may it throw an equal lustre over their characters when all earthly ties for them shall be dissolved , and when all the agitations of the human breast will have been of no avail ; unless they have left behind , like hers , traces of duties discharged , and of days spent in piety and goodness .
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even allowing that it means , " this bread / ' stiU it would be used emphatically , this bread , in distinction from other bread . And as there is no such emphasis in the passage under consideration , the quotation is hereby rendered unsatisfactory . But in the following instances no such room for exception will be found .
1 Kings xxi . 2 : Ka * cXafojcrc y Aypux . * irpoq NafesSra * , \ syW Ao $ jjloi tov o , \ mzs ~ Xocva ar&j—&Ti ef yitytv oiyoq ttf ouccp fj . ov . Aristophanes , Ns < £ * Xa * , 95 r EvravSr * oiKOVcriy a . yb p ^ ai tov epavoi-A&yovraq ccvcnrEi&tiaiY ccq eg-iv itviytvq ,. Katrtv irtpi % (*> & <; ovto $ , yftuf 8 ' av-^ IpUKS $ .
Xenophon , Cyrop&dia , i . 4 : Eir £ cr 0 < x * $£ § OK £ i fAccKupa , ty oc % ocpig- ^ * q < xva , icrypvTux . * kcci yap civtv ) ( aeggapi $ - * £ & ) fjuyig-iq § 0 / C £ ( SWOll VKl TtOLYTOL Tflt CLKJ-^ pOL r ^ yt ^ tiOV . A similar usage appears to prevail with £ K £ tw £ , a word completely analogous to cvroq . Thus ,
John xii . 48 : O \ oyo $ cr sKaXiqara , sksivos xpwti ocvrov sv Ty a < r % ct , Tr ^ * i [*> £ pq > . In Luciari's Dialogues , speaking of young Mercury , Apollo says to Vulcan , e Pa £$ o * Tiva , irETroiyToti ^ olv ^ clkt ^ olv tiqv Zvvocfjuv , $ xJArfixyasyai ra ^ vacpe ^ . Vulcan answers : Eryea ' bkbivqv t&anta . axrr < p tccuyviov swat . It would be easy to multiply such quotations to any extent ; but these , I think , will be sufficient to shew that Dr . Horsley was in this instance , at least , a hypercritic . I have been induced to offer these remarks , from my estimation of the value of that interpretation of this
remarkable passage which they go to support . Not that they are absolutely necessary to it ; because were it conceded that Qvroq , standing alone , must be personal , still there would be no
serious objection to joining to it the words , o Xoyo <; , which immediately precede , as it would be merely a change of punctuation . But I have shewn that there is no need even of this
change . There is nothing , as far as I eai \ see , \ n this passage which seriously implies Q . ny distinct personality in the fFord , although there may be a slight figurative personification ii *
the mode &i expres »* op . The apcientj interpretation appears to me al § o the bast- It is tfrflt which supposes the word spoken of in thisr passage , not tq be a name of any person whatever , t > ui
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On the sense ofOira ^ John i . 2 * 651
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Sir , Torquay . YOU may remember that in Horsley ' s controversy with Priestley , a question arose about the usage of the Greek pronoun ovrog , which occurs in the opening passage of John ' s Gospel . Ovroq ( o \ oyoq ) yv tv ^ PXO ^ p 0 ^ roy 0 foj / . As Priestley contended that we ought not in this passage to understand the word ' as the name of a
person , but only as a divine power or principle , the Bishop met him with an objection to this effect : that the pronoun ovroq is not used , standing alone , as it does here , . unless it refers to a person . Now , in this point of
criticism , I believe Horsley was mistaken ; and Priestley maintained as much in his reply : but as it is a matter of consequence in the interpretation of this notable passage , and as Dr . Priestiev did not . as far as I I know . Dr . Priestley did notas far as know
, , l > y sufficient quotations , completely take off his opponent ' s critical objection , I have put down a few passages which I think very conclusively decide the question . In order to shew where
the question hinges , I will observe , that Priestley defended himself by quoting from John , oiroq e iv o ^ to $ a KacTcttaq £ k T « 8 pa , VQV , &C . Now this was certainly not an appropriate instance , not only because it is not clear that by ovto ^ in this place , a person ls not really intended , but because
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1821, page 651, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2506/page/19/
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