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a mistake like this has occurred in the Hebrew Text before the Greek Version was made , will appear highly probable to any one who will take the trouble of comparing the numbers and dates in parallel passages of the
Books of Kings and Chronicles . Many similar mistakes are known to exist . The following are selected from a great variety of instances now before me , only because they appeared best adapted for the purpose of
illustration . In 2 Kings viii . 26 , Ahaziah is said to have been twenty-two years of $ ge when he began to reign ; but in 2 Chron , xxii . 2 , he is said to have been forty-two , making no less a
difference than twenty years . Walton < Prolegom . p . 36 ) " puts this contradiction among the qucedam airoga : and De Dieu says—Malim rotunde fateriy inewplicabilem hanc nobis esse diffieultatem . Twenty-two is no doubt the genuine reading ; for Joram the
father of Ahaziah died at the age of forty , ( 2 Kings viii . 17 , ) and was imxuediately succeeded by his son . ( Ver . 24 . ) If we take forty-two as the age of Ahaziah when he began to reign , we shall be reduced to the necessity of admitting that the son was bora
before the father ; and if we receive both readings as true , we shall be compelled to have recourse to one or other of those ingenious hypotheses which have been framed to prove that a person might be forty-two and twenty-two years of age at the same
time . Again , in 2 Kings xxiv . 8 , Jehoiachin is said to have been eighteen years old when he began to reign $ but in 2 Chron . xxxvi . 9 , he is said to have been eight only , which makes a difference of exactly ten years . Now it is impossible that both these numbers can be correct . Either the ten
years must have been added in the one case , or subtracted in the other . The probability is that the original reading was eighteen * and accordingly in the Codex Alexandriaus thi 3 reading is found under both places .
Now the difficulty is precisely the same in the case before us . Ten years ixiake all the difference ; and if we adopt the reading of 2 Kings xviii . 2 , we shall be compelled to admit that Ahap begot Hezekiah at the age of ten , an admission which , to say the
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least of it , requires some paii ^ e * But by changing a figure , and substituti ng : 15 for 25 , the difficulty vanishes in a moment , and all the dates correspond with the greatest degree of exactness . . , . ¦
It was my first intention to have followed up these remarks by a critical examination of the passage ; but want of room compels me to defer the execution of this design till some future opportunity . R . WALLACE .
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Matt , xxviii , 19 , inconsistent ivith Unitarianlsm . Dicere verum , Quidvetat ? Hor . Sir , "W MAY be voted a lore : but unless
JL interdicted by yourself , I shall not cease to press , from time to time , upon the reluctant attention of your , readers , a cardinal point , ( as it always appears to my mind , ) in our controversy with Trinitarians , viz , the authenticity or non-authenticity of
the baptismal text . That upon the Unitarian hypothesis , the ceremony of the initiation into the religion of Christ , modo et forrnh of the xxviiith Matt , was a very probable anticipation , the veriest bigot to his creed
will scarcely affirm . Or , might I not rather say , let any advocate for the strict Unity of Gou in the person of the Father only , place himself in imagination at the side of " the Author and Finisher of our faith , " when he
was about to give his final commission to his disciples to preach his religion to the world , and is there that in-, struction that would at the moment have surprised him more , than the one which is reported to have fulleii just then from his lips , to go and baptize the nations in the name of the Father , and of the Son , and of
the Holy Spirit ? In consistency , indeed , with the doctrine which he believes the Son of God to have uniform * ly taught , he well explains the conception to mean no more than what
he finds previously revealed . But that he should be obliged to have recourse ? ( forgive me , my brethren !) to so farfetched an explanation ! Standing aa an isolated behest , what other sense
could it upon a first impression convey , than that of an hierarchy of some sort or other in heaven I And can we
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Q 4 Matt , xxviii . 19 , inconsistent with Unit < trianism »
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1824, page 24, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2520/page/24/
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