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has biOfeerto been incfi « ied to c ^ nside as inauTni&uiYta&le . He vv * tti no longer bfc obliged to attempt to eXpU&isfchfc seconcFBook . of Genesis by the fest ,
or the Urst by the seoqmt ; no * will lie think of asserting that the account * &the detage at the time of Noak , afc contained iti the Mosaic records , necessarily proves that it wus universal : in fine , the world will at length cease to tax Moses with the fault * of his
commentators I 4 . Nor can it be denied , lastly , that the benefits accruing to criticism i # - self from the discovery alluded to , are equally important . When the task of the more enlightened critic
shall have bee « brought to a sac cess * . fal conclusion , by tfoe separation of both records in the Book of Genesfc , according te the views , style , Individual expressions and other * characteristics peculiar to eacfe , ifr witt be seen that the more humble labourer
la the fiel ( J > whose province e&teadfc over words only , and whose obffeet i » to detect erroneous readings , has ft&ed rules and prlticiples laicT down , toy which to Judge of them . In strict conformity with t ^ hese , he Vpifl pnu
iiounce )* , in Gen . v . 28 , to lye a word introduced from some fbreign text ; D ») D , ch . vfi , 6 , to be a mere g lossary , originating in a parallel exbression $ * further , —)»***? , ch . ^ xx .
* Vide Repertory for BihlicaAat * d Udenr tal Ligature , V <> Jt v ^ p , 215 , T&fc co « r utructfefi pf the wonjf ^» nffl' 7 * &iPi so totaijy repu ^ naMt ta evei ; y thing oflb ^ Hebrew id ; om , cannot fai , l tO create hm T picion , aud even induced MitJ ^ e li ^ tp
propose the reading of tzprp instead of tznp , •* the inundatiQO spread over the hiiuLjfcom the seat ' * see JVkichaelis Orient . aiidEA ^^ t . Library , IX . 183 . It is , how * , wer , mom i * ob « fefev that origjnMly . the tG&t aontaia ^ d onljr x \ > n' > UQ' i for th «
record 1 # which th ^ passage belougs , uses , piraia ^ ly tftaj : trxpressioi ^ ip reference tq the fiood ^ iu eft . vU , 17 . Some one , perhaps , makihe the discovery that the expression 6 » ft 7 ijp occurred iu ch , vU ; 17 , as welj as in other places , re .
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24 , a strange wotd ^ iusertedi « t > lely for the srikie of coanexio » ^ : naa rnn ; >^ DM , ch . vii 16 , a v ^ tbaX ^ tMaspOBi tion : nor will he fall to dteoovcsr
othia-• errors which havie hUborfo esi ^ ape . general notice ( e . ^» ( ieH ^ vii . ; 9 , xvik I , xxu . 12 , xxvi , 24 , xxtil . 28 j peohap& , also , xxxii . JO , &Ci ) .
[ Daest § 425 . O « the Difficulties connected -with an Attempt t& separate 8 o $ k Records in the Book of G&ne&is . } '
§ 426 . Septtration of both Records contained in tfye Booh < if Oenesis . I shall mnv pcoceed to jn ^ ak e an atr tempt to separate both tl * e records which eorrjposq the Book of Geoesis .
and to exhibit eaqh in a distfoct form , accompanied by a statem&Qtf of the ^ roupaa wliich appear to me t ; o warrant precisely the division he pe made , and no othe ^; aiid in t ) m attempt I trust , that ^ if I be not ap fo * tuna £ e n $
to encourage others to siuul ^ r labours , I may at least cou ^ t oa tlic plan btmiet out bv me l ^ eii ^ fojlo *^ d , up aud mar teriauy im project upon i for al ^ K > ugh I eannot tw myself witk any waj * t of care or diligence in . p . atienttv investir
gating ths siilyect and re-rcowidering my oyvi * a , U ^ a ^ pts > j ^ et I an * but too well aware ttia ^ it is incompajtil ) le wi th the oature of work ^ belou ^ ip ^ to tbe W ^^ r deipartweju ts of cnticiism , tQ arrive by one step at the , summit of perfection .
marked it in > the margin of the line containing the words , rp ' l * * M *> D ^ when ^ d it was afterwards acloiaJ fy transferred into the text itself , although , most unfortunately , in the ^ rong place ; that is to » ay > BoOfter the word £ i : MDn , ( thus , nm d > o *? iao , ) but after n ^ n .
ludependeut of the al ¥ > ve , it must also be confessed ^ that ^ thq ejqjressum p > D f ? 1 O » is not usdat with the author of the record to which the passage above quoted belongs , for he uniformly , adopts Vud only , ox f ?^^ H *® i
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6 M& Eidkhor&fiiMccoknt of the" Btivkiitf mwesis .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1822, page 618, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2517/page/34/
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