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Sir , WROTE my short remark upon I John xxi . 15 , ( pp . 287 , 288 , ) not as a biblical scholar , which I am not , but from a simple consideration of the Greek in itself considered ; and I do
not know that I have any thing farther to say which would deserve the attention of your correspondent , except it be to remark , that if the Evangelist intended the emphasis to fall upon the pronoun , he ought to have written £ {/ , £ , in order to prevent ambiguity . If the writers of the New Testament
were not very nice as to the distinction between the enclitic and the emphatic form of the pronoun , yet they did not , I apprehend , neglect this distinction so as to render their meaning obscure and uncertain . In our Evangelist we read , el 6 y . o < t [ a q <; u / j . oc <; / juo-ei , yiVOtXTyCSTE OTi EfJLE -UrpcOTQV VfAOOV { A . £ fJ * lCrY ) VLE . This is as it ought to be ; though here the sense could not have been
mistaken , even had the enclitic been employed . The Greek , however , would have been at variance with the writer ' s meaning , as the proper interpretation of his words would have been , " know that it hated me before vou hated
me . " And I cannot help concluding , that when he wrote ccyoarfiq jae -wXelov T&rcoy ; his meaning was , " l / ovest thou me more than these love me ?" E . COGAN .
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Sir , June 5 9 1822 . OBSERVE that Sir James Mackintosh , in his eloquent speech last night in the House of Commons , introductory to his happily successful motion , pledging the House to take the criminal law into consideration , with a view to its mitigation and
amendment , termed our great Milton , on occasion of a quotation from him , the first Defender of a Free Press ( ind an unfettered , conscience . Admiring and revering as I d () the immortal bard , the matchless champion of true liberty , I am anxious to learn how far the above appellation is historically correct . The question , who was the
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Quarterly Review on Bishop of St David ' s Vindication of 1 John v . / . IN our first number for the present year , ( pp . 39—47 , ) we inserted from the pen of n learned and able correspondent , a review of Bishop Burgess ' s new publication on behalf of the Three Witnesses' text . We
rejoice to see that the bishop ' s tract has been examined and discussed in periodical works that circulate amongst I m M ^ l Trinitarians , and especially i » *" Christian Remembrancer and the Quarterlv Review . The critique in this
latter journal is by the hand of a m ' ter . It agrees generally with the argument of our own reviewer , and jt cleais up in a decisive manner the difficult v us to WalnfricI Strabo . This part Ot
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334 Mr . Cog-an ' s Reply to O . P . Q . on John xxi . 15 .
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in the recollection of such departed worth I feel a satisfaction in paying this feeble tribute to the recollection of a friendship which has lasted to the close of life , and which I trust will be renewed in that eternal world where friends meet never to part .
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first assertor of Liberty of Conscience in England , without restriction and on its true grounds , yet remains to be settied . For years I have been making inquiries and collections in order to its solution , but at present I confess myself unable to arrive at a satisfactory conclusion . The claims of individuals to the high distinction ,
Above all Greek , above all Roman fame , can be determined only by a comparison of dates . There are several names for whom the honour is asserted , viz . Milton , Owen , Roger Williams , and John Goodwin ; to whom perhaps may be added John Hales and Jeremiah White . But there is
a sect of whom little is known who professed the principle of Liberty of Conscience in its purity , I refer to the Levellers , the admirable exposition of whose system is contained in your Vltli Vol . pp . 23—28 and 88—92 . Even before these and before the time of the
eminent writers just specified , there were publications feeling their icay to the glorious object , some of them written by men derided as mystics and fanatics . The speech in Parliament in the time of Henry VIII ., recorded in your Xlth Vol . pp . 698 — 700 , would seem to shew that the true
notion of freedom of conscience and the Reformation were nearly coeval . Some of your correspondents , learned in theology , and especially in pamphlet-history , may perhaps assist the inquiries of CANTABRIGIENSIS .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1822, page 334, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2513/page/14/
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