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distinct citation of it appears . We should think that it needed no profound knowledge of the art of Criticism , but onty aMuie of that common sense which learning * unfortunately cannot teach , to see . tjiat such a pa § ~ sage irfuat Tte &p&ri < n * a , or that t&q-e H aft end of all erMieai certainty . Thfe flfebop of St . DavM * s thinks he caa * efr all this evidence aside , and these
ate Ins argtimedts : that the sense is imperfeqt and ^ the construction sole ^ cfetSc , if the seventh verjse be taken away : that ( oijr Greek MSS . of this Epistle aa& * comparatively , modem * a&& , tlfcereftJre , caxmot prove what was thd reacting * qf tjte early ages : tfeat
the Latin F&tiiers qttote it as , early as TertttHi ^ ri ; , that TMr . Nolan , irt Hi € profound an 4 interestin g Inquiry into the Integrity of the Greek Vftlgate , ** * has made it probable , that Ehse&itts strode out the Heavenly Witnesses in tbe days of Consfcantine :
lastly , that Mr . Porson declared his willingness to come over to Mr . TVa ,-vis * opinion , if two Greek MSS ., 500 years old , could be produced , containing tbe verse , and that Dr . Adam Clarke thinks that one , the Dublin
M * 3 ; , is more Bkely to have been written m the thirteenth century than hi the fifteenth . Let ua examine , these arguments separately . 1 . The harshness of construction and solecism ,, toroduced by the omission of the Eleventh ^ ers « , consists in tiiis - y fhftj ; * r $ ntyntpwi KqX %£ t > 8 oip vcctX to cu [ aoc in tfce eighth verse are all neuters ;
and yet tfie apostfesays of them , rpe + g A < riy * f , fjuzprvg ^ yre ^ Assur ^ ii ^ it , therefore , to b ^ a rule of Greek constructJon , ( for his argument implies this , though ; he ( foes not expressLy state it , ) th&t uouns in apposition must be . of the same gender , as those to whicft they f a ^ e , appq > sed , the Bishop argues th&t St . John ^? ouM hever have
mllen intasuch a solecism , aa to lisa the , masculine iir the eiefhth verse ^ *? for , the . circumstance ox Jms taviig the mpt ^ eti ^ before used at y ^ Tud 3 irr $£ la ^ W ^^ m ^^^^ w ^^^ ^^ : ^ Hji .., ' ., ' * ' Ao Q < o ^ , Kai to Siyi ^ v icvtivua , i # f 3 is
j ^ upe uwmscumop gyaioj ^* wc ^ $ 0 K $ pU ^ Now it ia v J ^ rjr P o ^^ qus . W mmsi ^ tWh a » Dr . - , S / wtfirte 4 om * i £ &W ttp > 1 W . XIh A 4 ^) r that tb ^ mwrntfoif ^ ia usod bectiuae ttia words i ^ f&to& hified- Bishop Bm $ gc ** y in » - deed , objects that % vsvp < x cannot te
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personified in the eighth verse , because in ? he si ^^ JV ¥ ^ **? T ? ' »» dffto l < z ~ i to fjuxprvpev ; but , in the first plaice thei !» is no rea ^ oii l& ^ t an author should always personify , because he sometim ^ e ^ does . it ; . ^ nd ,. ii ^ the second l& th ^ cohstmc ^ i | s | mve 40
jtce , qj ^ |« gy ; Assv ^^ ^ v ^ 1 ^ the jireaic ^ e . of the . priroosittaii , in wfclch it \ fo ^^ e ^ a&uy ^^ e , ^ en a harsh , though by no means tmauthori ^ ed , cohsti ^ tiiqri , \ o lia ^ j i epa ^ ted from tbe gender ojf tl ^ ^ uM ect ^ jth neuters in the e ^ hft veiisey fi ^ tea 4 erf being either the predicate or the siibt #
jecu , are apposea , exegecicaiiy ^ < u fAupnvp £ xT& ; 9 , the subject . The logical order of the woidt is this ^ Sim & { juzprvpgvTsi ; Qri Tryefifjun , x « t » X . ) tan vpsZ *; . This distiiuctiott either Bishop Bnsgess and his qracles , Mr . Notea and Dr , Halerf , bare o > verlooked , ot
they mean ta maintainr that ifc alj cases nouas in apposition must be in the same gende * as titose which they are introduced to &xpl&i& . Let us hear tbe opinion o £ a mta * k better grammarian than atty of t&tf thu&a f The apposed suto&tantfre should k
strieitness be of the &&me number md gender us the&rat ; bvt the& > ate often different % especially when tbe opposed wonl i& an ahstr&cium pro cencr ^ fo * 99 < Manhi ^ § 431 of % b& smaller gram , mar ; for the passage te Hot contafeed
in the larger , translated by £ . V . Btorn&eld . ) He qttotes ^ as examp le ^ tktv . Tmad * 429 , diciyj ^^ a ^ * a&ymmv / SfldTViV «* Tt&fi TUQ < &W&S KOt 1 ^\ $ H & *?
$ viow * Heai . Scut . Hem 296 , M 3 , SpXQSi (* p * rt 4 $ 9 y kkuwa . ipyce tteptyptw 'MfoUiT **** Will it be sato that Matthik ^ B examples are all fron ^ i poets ? In the book of Proverbs , ^ xx . ^
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40 Review . —Bishop of St > Qm&fs qn Three Witnesses * Teat ,
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1822, page 40, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2508/page/40/
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