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    A Vindwation of Minute Acewaoy, in Pcispect 6f the Text, Translation, tirtS Interpretation, of $ke Stviptiures. Jult/2,m25. jtivat i^TEdROs aoctedefre fames,

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    Atque haarire . PERHAPS it may not be unseasonable to lay before the readers of the M onthhr Repository a few ol > - servations on the value of minute accuracy in the criticism and interpretation of the Bible . The strictures which I shall have occasion to make ,

    will have been suggested by passages that presented themselves in a recent course of reading :. Dr . Bruce * appears to depreciate this accuracy , where the text of the Scriptures is concerned . He takes fbT

    granted , that his auditors and readers cannot ft refrain fnom smiling , wheii they hear the nature of the Supreme Being , and the faith and salvation df Christendom , suspended ott the transposition of a tetteh of the construction

    of a particle , the insertion of a ddt , or the otnission of sbme grammatical or rhetorfcal mark . " What is Dr . Bruce ^ Weaning ? His statement , if it be correct , should excite indignant disgust , rather than risibility . The question at issue , between Christians

    of opposite denominations , is , whether or no the texts under consideration , and as they stand in the received editions and translations , be genuine Scripture ; Whetheir or ho they proceed from evangelists and apostles ? Is there any thing which can fairly be deemed ludicrous , either in this

    inquiry itself , or in the legitimate and customary means of bringing- it to a conclusion ? Suppose that the point ™ dispute were the text and readings < rf the best MSS ., &c . of a proftne author— Ciceto , for example , or Virffu : •—suppose , too , ( it is an allowable

    supposition , ) that some very interesting matter of fact or of opinion were susp ended on the due arrangement ot the controverted passage—what scholar would treat the case with lenity ? is j t ftot Iris business to aacei * - tain , first , what has really been said

    — r i » pi «_ n ¦ i , i ¦ - i- i i- . 11 — ¦ *¦ S swa PP . 126 , W 7 . 30 i . afe .

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    LtJdRfeT . by atident Writets , and afterwards , ia \ tf hat Signification it lias beeii skfd ? Persons wefl acquainted with polemical thedlog ^ r , know that Dr . Bruce's representation is exaggerated . * Tfae iofiole Stress of Tririitariariistn is hbt

    jilaced on the texts which he has la view . Even assuming that it is , Ariafes wdtild seem to be as truly khd &s deeply involved in the question df tfce genuineness of such passages as Unitarian Christians . All sincere and

    ehlightened believers in the gospel , w ill be zealous to draw the litie bfetwefeii spurious and aitthefttic Scripture . fl [ o # can the discrihiinatiph bfe ^ Se ci tfe a without the aid of biblical crtticistb ,

    without minute accuracy in the exerdse of it ? Wlien \ ve ac ^ nowleage the valde Of thfe end , yet despise iBe otilV itieafas by whicTi it can be aftaiiicff , \ ve are grossly ineonsist ^ nt with orffselves .

    It Would be , in many respedts ^ a happy circumstance , if the controversy of the Trinitarian with those who oppose him , W 6 re decided by criticism rather than interpretation . Expositors may be Very learned , wise , Sftd pious : nevertheless , in their

    chifacteristic etttproynierit , we find them susceptible of various and hilttful lh-^ uences , from causes not always tiridfet th ^ ir controUt . Thq canons of irif ^ rpretatioii , so far $ g Respects the pftetical use of iheni , depend greatly oh rtien ' s prejfiidices , attaclimehts , connexions , and diversities of setltirii ^ nt .

    Not 80 the cations of criticism , in thfe restricted and just meaning of tfcat i 4 Hfim These are fixed , impartial , iniiveirs a ^ prdduced , fortified , oiccUpie < l t by inquMeB into facts , not into opinions . Accordingly , to the aWlird of Biblical Criticism weill-educated divines , of all denominations , bow With instant ahfli

    impiiclt d 6 fetertc 6 : * whether they ? SO the Unitarian Christian , on the aut&oifitiies cited by Griesbadi , surrenders a part af the receiy ^ d text in M * tt * . xix . 17 ,

    A Vindwation Of Minute Acewaoy, In Pcispect 6f The Text, Translation, Tirts Interpretation, Of $Ke Stviptiures. Jult/2,M25. Jtivat I^Tedros Aoctedefre Fames,

    A Vindwation of Minute Acewaoy , in Pcispect 6 f the Text , Translation , tirtS Interpretation , of $ ke Stviptiures . Jult / 2 , m 25 . jtivat i ^ TEdROs aoctedefre fames ,

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1825, page unpag, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2538/page/1/