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    pensation ; " upon which statement our author remarks , with an air of triumph , and with evident self-complacency , " He can scarcely mean that age and dispensation are

    synonymous terms ! ! " No ; Mr . Belsham has neither affirmed nor intimated thus much of the terms , in their etgmological sense . On the contrary , he has limited himself to one of the scriptural acceptations of auw , his

    interpretation of which is perfectly correct . We refer , in proof , to Matt . xii . 32 , where , " this world , " or " age , " [ aiavi ] is the Jewish ; " the world to come , " the Christian age , or dispensation , to Matt , xxviii . 20 , and to Heb .

    xi . 3 * Although we do not , like Mr . Belsham , translate §* ' , " with a view to whom /* we are , nevertheless , aware that such a rendering of the words has the support of some highly respectable authorities . Beza ' s is at least as

    important as that of Grotius . In the Plutus of Aristophanes , ( Oxon . IS 10 , ) ver . 93 , / cat /// yj y Sta tb <; xpyj ^ sq ye , k . r . X . we are desirous of ascertaining the signification of the writer ' s language , rather than of discussing the merits of the scholiast ' s criticism .

    But this quotation is irrelevant ; first , because it presents an example of 5 ; a with the accusative , and not with the genitive ; and , next , because the translation , a probis honore adficitur , cannot Le improved . Thucydides , we believe , will supply Mr . Belsham with one or two passages which apparently ,

    if not really , are more to his purpose : with one he himself had long since furnished Dr . Priestley ; f another we had marked in our copy of the same historian , [ ed . Edinb . 1804 , L . v . § 53 , ] dia , OvfAocroq , " on account of the victim ,- " or ' * with the view of

    claiming the victim , and possessing themselves of it , "—and vve trust that we shall be excused for thus carefully noticing the edition , because some difference of arrangement , by the different editors , might tempt us to exclaim , with Dr . Spry , ( p . i ) S , ) < c The passages in Thucydides are probably referred to erroneously , as the words which Mr . ttelshani cites are not

    * Sehleusuer , in verb , and the satisfactory note of Dr . SyUes , in loc . f Litidscy ' s Second Address to the Students , &c . p . 2 i ) 7 } note [ hi .

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    to be found , Hist . Lib . vi . S . vin edit , Bipont . " Under that section the words" do not occur in the Edinb . ed . of 1804 . We find them , however , in S . 57 of

    the sixth book , where they make a part of the celebrated narrative concerning- Harinodius and Aristogeiton . In Lindsey ' s note * the reference is to Hudson ' s , or the Oxford , ed ., of 1696 , and to the page , instead of the

    section . As to the language cited , by the author of the Exposition , &c , from Joseplms , we agree with Dr . Spry , that the expressions are idiomatic ^

    and therefore do not bear upon the question . Of the same idiom we have an instance in 2 Cor . v . lO .-f We are clearly of opinion , upon the whole , that in the text uuder review , the usual sense of ha . is to be retained .

    Valckenar suspects the genuineness of any passages in classical writers , where this preposition , so combined , has a different force and meaning . Whether he has external authorities for altering them , is not stated . That such passages can be discovered , is , with

    ourselves , a matter of doubt . Seeming anomalies , of this nature , in particular , justify our hesitation : we believe , too , that dta , Ov ^ aToq and ha kiv ^ wq , admit of being translated by per hostlam and per periculum-X After all , Mr . Belsham has been

    substantially correct in his quotation , and cannot be regarded , with truth , as fanciful and singular in his rendering ; Dr . S . Chandler ' s concession § in respect of the sense of dia . may well be styled remarkable ; the rather , as that able and excellent man was both " a

    high Arian" and , for bis age and situation , a considerable Greek scholar . The select preacher can be little acquainted with scriptural or even with common language , if he imagine that such words as noisa in Greek , and make in English , refer , of course , to a material creation . What if we should

    say that in the former clause of the verse appointment , and in the second arrangement is expressed ? How could Dr . Spry set aside this rendering

    * Vt sup . + Mou . Ilepos . VllL 36 . J There is an evident sense in which * ' the victim ** was " the means" of the irruption , and Hippias * the means" of placing others ill danger . § On Eph , iii . [ uote i ] 11 .

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    358 Review . —Spry ' s Two Sermons befbre the University qf Oxford .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1825, page 358, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2537/page/32/