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th < S Reviewer considers as very admirable and important ; namely , that God is revealed to us not as he is adsolu'ely and in himself , but as he is relatively to us who are his creatures . J am not deep in these mysteries ; but T nrpsurae that the observation is
intended to intimate , that we must not reason from the Divine attributes as made known to us in Scripture , to the measures of the Divine administration . If such be its object , it might as well have been spared . For , in the
first place , it is altogether gratuitous . In the next place , God cannot be irnao-ined to possess absolutely any attributes which stand opposed to those which he possesses in relation to his creatures . And , consequently , if we know what God is in relation to
mankind , we can reason with the same certainty and confidence respecting the measures of his government , as if we thoroughly understood what he is absolutely and in himself . If , for instance , we are assured that God is
infinitely or ( as the Reviewer would say ) perfectly good in relation to man , we know just as well what to expect at his hands , as if goodness were proved to constitute his moral nature and essence . In a word , unless
revelation be intended to mislead and deceive , God can be nothing absolutely which will not allow him to be , in his dealings towards his creatures , what lie has declared himself to be . E . COGAN .
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May 1 , 1822 . Contributions to Scriptural Criticismquodcunque potest . LEV . xxvi . 34 , 43 . [ 2 Chron xxxvi . 21 . ] " Then shall the land enjoy her sabbaths . " This
language is sometimes interwoven with modern thanksgivings fordfetyg of sacred rest . In such an a ^ fftation of Jt , however , there can be ri *> p /^ priety . Jne phrase expresses a curse , and 1
n ( > t a blessing : it signifies , that the ground was to lie fallow through long years of captivity and desolation ; and in these circumstances the ordinances of religion , the weekly sabbaths , could scarcel y , if at all , be celebrated . 1 salin L 3 . ? i ( — - whatsoever he * Mon . Repos . VIII . 456 . vol . xvu . 2 i *
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dbeth shall prosper . " I adopt the rendering proposed , in MS ., by a scholar of considerable taste and learning * , * and read , " it shall bring to maturity whatsoever it beareth . " Mer ~ rick , in his Notes on the Psalms , endeavours to justify the received
trajrtslation of this clause , and to shew , by means of quotations from Greek and Roman authors , that there is nothing unusual in appropriating to the subject of a comparison expressions which
had been employed just before in the comparison itself . The fact , which he takes so much pains to establish , is readily admitted . Yet from this admission it does not , of necessity , follow either that the word 3 before us
contain an example of the practice , or that all his citations are pertinent . In the fourth and fifth verses the respective situations of the righteous man and of the ungodly ¦ , are placed in contrast with each other , under
similitudes , borrowed from natural objects : nor does it appear reasonable to believe , that within so short a compass a transition would suddenly be made to a different figure of poetry . The annotator is not happy in hifi reference to Virgil , JEn . IV . 300 , &c . :
* Saevit mops ammi , totamque incensa per urbem Bacchatur ; qualis comniotis excita
Thyas , ubi audito stimulant trietcrica Baccho Orgia , nocturnusque vocat clamore Citliaeron . "
Here we have a comparison , and nothing more ; the verb bacchatur being now used in a general , not in its primary and specific , sense .-f
Psalm ii . 7- " — this day have I begotten thee : " upon which clause Bengel X has the following- observation : " seternitas nunquam vocabulo hodie significatur ; quare , ego hodie genui te dicitur hoc sensu , hodie , definii , declaraviy te esse natum meum . " His remark conducts us to the just rendering and sense of Luke xxiii .
* The late Rev . Hcwry Moore . -f- I am aware that Merriclc ' fl view of the lines is countenanced by Servius : but I prefer the corajiveot qf fjeyne , " fiacehatur , sumjna cn « n vi dictum pi *> discurtitat" See , too * ^ £ n . VI . 78 . X Gnomon , &c , in Acts xiii , 33 .
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Goiitridiitton * to S&riptural Criticism ® . 289
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1822, page 289, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2512/page/33/
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