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ta , quae contra adduci solent , respondetur . Dialogus xx . : Ostenditur nobis necessarium esse credere Trinitatem . In the Colloquy , Ochin assigns to himself the task of stating and defending the doctrine of the Trinitv . but he puts into the mouth of mtybut he puts into the mouth 01
, the Spirit with whom he is disputing , some of the strongest arguments that can be urged against it , and which he very ineffectually combats . The tone also of the reasoniug against the doctrine , the irony and ridicule with which some orthodox statements of it are
repeatedly treated , very clearly shew that the writer could not have been a believer . It may not perhaps be equally apparent what his own opinion was . But from the manner in which he defends a statement of the Arian
doctrine concerning the person of Christ , * which the Spirit is made to give , it may be conjectured that he had adopted that hypothesis . Some of Ochin ' s publications have been already mentioned . Besides those enumeratedthe principal are fc k ¦ mi
, , ^^ f ^^^^^^ ^^^^ ^ * ^^^^ ^^^^ ^^^^ *» jv ^^ fc ^ m ~^ r ^^ ^^~^* ^ v ~^^~ ^ ^ m w ^»^™ ¦ v ^ ^ ^» ^^ ^ n- ^^ - ^^ ^ n p - ^ v ^ ^^^ ^ r ^ r ^ v - ^_^ ^ m 1 . His Discourses on the Lord ' s Supper . 2 . His Labyrinths , wherein he treats of Free-will and Necessity , &c . ; and 3 , a Dialogue on Purgatory - Ochin
wrote all his pieces in Italian , and those of them which were published in the Latin and other languages , were translated from hi 3 manuscripts . His works are all scarce , and sell at high pr ices . R . S .
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Ben David's Remarks on Eichhorn ' s sfccount of Genesis . No . I . npHE reputation of Eichhorn for JL learning and talents might well lead his readers to expect much valuable information from his biblical
researches . But if the extracts in the Repository be fair specimens of his literary labours , they hold him forth , not as an enlightened critic of the nineteenth century , but as an immured monk , equally remote from the light of truth and the light of heaven , in
the darkest period of the dark ages . He thinks the book of Genesis , instead of being the genuine production of Moses , is but a compilation extracted by him from different documents . Thus he supposes the second * Dialogues . II . 43 .
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chapter to be on isolated document in no ways connected with the first , and the whole a patch-work from different unknown authors , rather than one entire , consistent narrative of the same writer . In judging of an ancient composition there are two , methods of pronouncing on its character and merit . The one is to detach it from the
antiquity of the author , and , bringingit down to the eye of the inquirer , to judge of it by the standard of modern productions . This method is easy but fallacious : for the work examined in this point of light will not appear in its genuine colours . The features
which were called forth by the circumstances peculiar to the writer , will be deemed inconsistencies ano ! imperfections ; and if the critic be a man of talents , and in the habit of substituting fancy for solid sense , he ^ will form some hypothesis to account for them as anomalies in a work of
acknowledged credit . The other is for the inquirer in imagination to convey himself through the channels of ancient literature to the age and country of the author , and to examine the work in connexion with the characteristic
features of the times . This way * indeed , is sure , yet difficult and laborious ; but the piece , like the painting of an ancient master , will then be viewed in its true though sombre
light . The anomalies which had before perplexed . , the critic will disappear , and while they add simplicity , beauty and harmony to the work , they will furnish additional evidence of its
authenticity . The researches of the critic in this respect resemble those of the astronomer , who , if he observes the heavenly bodies from the spot to which he is actually confined , must witness much inequality and disorder
in their motions and arrangement . But if the observer will imagine himself in the centre of motion , and take his observations from thence , all irregularities will entirely vanish : every position will then present itself in just
proportion > every movement appear regular and harmonious , and the planet which before seemed retrograde or stationary , will henceforth be uniformly progressive in its course . Eichhorn exemplifies the first of these methods of examining ancient records . I , in answer ing hinr , will endeavour to illustrate the second : and if my abi-
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V 664 Ben David ' s Remarks on Eichhortfs Account of Genesis .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1822, page 664, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2518/page/8/
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