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ous distinction , mbreqver , in ( be use of the epithet nyii b& , » ( Mighty God , ) with and without the . emphatic n . In Deut . x . 17 , Jer . xkxii . 18 , ' and Nehem . ix . 32 , they are used with
peculiar emphasis , and are properly rendered ** the Mighty God ; " but in the present instance either the indefinite article should be used , or nope . Had the emphatic n been prefixed to the word b& , indeed , as in the
instances just enumerated , no doubt « ould have been entertained that the word was used in the highest sense ; but , as Ibis mark of distinction is not prefixed , and the epithet is clearly applied , to a human being * , —a child
to be born , and a son to be given , — the words cannot be fairly understood to mean any thing further than a mighty leader or hero , as Luther has translated it in his German Bible , interpreting the word b » in the inferior sense in which it must always be
interpreted when applied to any being except the Supreme God . ? The words translated €€ Everlasting 9 Father" although , in their present English dress they assume a very imposing appearance , are in fact attended with no difficulty whatever . , Some
copies of the Septuagint , with which Jerome agrees , have Uarvjp ra ^ e > .-KovToq a . iwo < b { Father of the future age ?) Symmachus and Theodotion simply n ^ T ^ p oLi covoq , ( Fath er of the etge , ) which is no doubt the literal
meaning- of the words ; but , as these words must necessarily relate to future time , inasmuch as the . sense of the whole passage is prospective , the age alluded to must mean some / wt-ure age , and that age the age of him to whom the prophecy relates .
The remaining epithet , " Prince of Peace , " is correctly translated , and will be found peculiarly descriptive of King Hezekiah- During his reign , Jerusalem enjoyed a state of repose to
which it had been an entire stranger during the reigns of his predecessors , and more particularly during that- of his father Aha # . This repose was
threatened , indeed , but not materially interrupted by the ambitious designs of Sennacherib , King of Assyria ; for , words thjm between * power * and c power . "' ( Sequel to a VincUcatkm of Onitarianism , p . 125 . ) . ¦ ¦
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whdn the Assyrian army invaded ^ u ^ dea ^ the prophet Isaiah / assu re d H ^ zfekiah that the peace of Jerusalem should not be destroyed by its hostile movements . u He shall iidt etffae
into the city , nor shoot an atrow there , nor come before it with a shield ; nor cast a bank against it butsHaH return by the way that he came /* ( 2 Kings xix 3233 ) Accordingl
. , . y , on the first night of the siege , upwards of a hundred and eighty-five thousand of the Assyrian troops were cut off by a pestilential disease ; and Senjreteljerib fled , with the remainder of his
army , to Nmeveh , leaving Jwle ^ -to enjoy a state of uninterrupted rep 6 se during the remainder of Hezekiah * s reign . * But here I find that I am anticipating the subject of my next communication , in which I shall endeavour to shew that the terms of the
prophecy were strictly fulfilled in the person of Hezekiah , and not at alL in that of Jesus Christ R . . WALLACE .
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Bristol , - Sir , February 14 , 1824 . ATTACHED as I am to Unitarianisni as the " doctrine of the gospel , " and looking , as 1 confidently do , to the spread of what Unitarians hold to be genuine- Christianity , for the reformation of a misled and sinful
world , I was more hurt than I can describe , to see in the Monthly Repository—a . work to which our A good cause owes so much—an article , signed Philadelphus , ( pp . 15—18 , ) which ,
for the utter indifference which it appears to express with respect tp Scripture authority , though the writer calls himself a " philosophical Christian , " might have fallen from the pen of Carlile , or any one of his foliowers
-The insignificance and absurdity of this paper must so soon have consigned it-to the oblivion into which such productions naturally fall , that it would have drawn forth no animadversions from me , had I not feared that , considering the work into which it has been admitted , those who are
already prejudiced against our doctrines , might be led to suppose that the wild conjectures and supposition a it contains , are floating in the minds o £ many who conscientiously , and , as they believe , from overpowering-scrip-
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Mrs . MHfrke&s Protest aguinst the paper of Philadelphtts . 97
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1824, page 97, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2521/page/33/
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