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would convey the idea that Hermeias committed suicide , instead of the foct that he was most perfidiously betrayed and cruelly put to death . The former reading not only gives a more regular and natural construction , but it also preserves the consistency of the imagery . To be dear to Apollo and the Muses was a common classical compliment : and in conformity with it ,
the murdered protector of science and its votaries is described as , by his untimely and disastrous death , causing " the rays , " the offspring , < f of the sun , " to mourn as widows for him :
while the Muses , the children of Memory , do their part to perpetuate his honour . Xqpoco properly signifies , to reduce to the condition of widowhood ^ I now submit it to the judgment of
eandid and competent scholars , whether the interpretation of Phil . ii . 6—8 , proposed in the Scripture Testimony , has been overthrown bv the learned
ingenious and able , but I humbly think untenable , animadversions of Dr . Jones . ^ V single observation more you will indulge me briefly to make . ( 7 . ) The Doctor , in his conclusion , says , " The above passage is justly Regarded as one of the strongest in favour of this doctrine ; " that is , the
doctrine of a divine nature in the person of the Christ : and he represents it as " that fortress which he [ Paul ] is said to have erected in support of the orthodox faith . " Now , I beg leave to rejoin that I have by no means represented this passage as supplying
the strongest , or one of the strongest , arguments in favour of the doctrine which appears to me to be contained in the Scriptures . It appears to me to recognize that doctrine in a very sufficient and decided manner ; but I should not hold it forth as ranking
among the most cogent or detached evidences . Indeed the great strength of the proof in favour of that sentiment lies , to iriy apprehension , in the variety , frequency and constancy of the modes by which it is involved , im--pHed and incidentally assumed , as well as directly assorted in the great &nd only rule of faith . It seems to
me to be ruiher an idle inquiry whether this argument or that , in a given ease , is separately the strongest . The ^ uestion for a rational man is whether Uhe ar ^ ximeot ? , whatever m&y be thrair
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Clapton , Sir , February 10 , 1822 . ^^ HE learned author of " Th € _ Scripture Testimony" will , I hope , excuse me if I hazard a rem ark on the representations in his letter ( p . 37 ) . Benevolus , to whom , so far as I know , I am an entire stranger , must , I think , have received more
satisfaction , could it have been shewn that his " citations" would not merely be " painful and offensive" to a guarded polemic like Dr . Owen , ( p . 38 , ) or to a modern liberal scholar , such as my justly-respected acquaintance , in whose hands a Trinity , as Burke
profligately said of courtly vice , may at length become almost harmless , " by losing- all its grossness ; " but that those ( c citations" had pained and offended the contemporaries and in other respects the admirers of the writers and preachers from whom JBenevolus made his selections .
A Protestant would not be contented to represent Transubstantiation as described by such a Roman Catholic as the late Dr . Geddes . Thus iny friend Mr . Belsham had , I conceive , a clear right to turn from the qualified language of cautious disputants , and to assume , as " the orthodox doctrine , "
the popular representations ; among which appears prominent " the incarceration of the Creator of the world , in the body of a helpless , puling infant . " Proceeding downwards from the pious father , whose marvellous
faith produced the exclamation , credo quia tmpossibile est , we find " the infant-deity" ( which , according to Watts , the reason , but , as I should say , the reli g ion of Locke could not bear ) adored for ages by the peop le * as a mystery , without such worship
appearing to have excited any censure from their more learned instructors , whether Papal or Protestant , who would , indeed , have hazarded their * own reputation for orthodoxy , lia " they ventured to teach the people that their mystery was an absurdity , W especially to be rejected as " painru &i \ s \ offensive to a very high degree .
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156 Mr . Rutt on the " Strlpture Testimony ^
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insulated form , are constructed of solkj materials , and whether their total amount be sufficient to establish \\ # proposition . J . P . SiMlTH .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1822, page 156, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2510/page/28/
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