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iiy ^ the analogy ojT fop t ; by , wbicJ * , expression tfceyinteiid % cr ^ d aj r ^ y farmed ., and a * & < fe & standard for the expositor . < Sueh a method of
investigating the Scriptures , is & $ nthetiCi S or systematical , and should , I presume , he , as much as passible , discouraged * If it be fair and lawful in regard to one set of theologians * i % is fair and lawful for all ; or rather , it is , universally fallacious and inadmissible . Should
it be alleged , that the Bible is con * ^ is tent w | th itself , —this consistency ,, I answer , cannot be effectually ascertained , except hy the aid of analysis * The just order , is , first , tq examine
the texts themselves ; afterwards , to compare them with each other ; and , lastly , tp illustrate those wiiich are Obscure b y those wfyich are perspicuous . A late excellent and accord
plished individual * w&s " no friend to very minute vejrjbal criticism" in ; scriptural studies , He did iuvt look in the saqred writers fbi * " ¦ that precision and accuracy in the use of words , which are to be found only iij the , most accurate and philosophical authors . " If , indeed , he adverted to
words purely Greek and cja ^ saca |> he was correct in Ids expectation ; though even in the " Greek of the Synagogue " there appears to be av reasonable degree of accuracy and precision—a
degree of both sufficient for all the ; general purposes of the critic- In iitferpretinjr p ^ sages of doubtful im-# prt , Mr , Wood trustee ! for assistant racier to qwnprehensive principles ^ to
tJ ^ ajR verbal inqiuiries * He wa ^ s qua- ; Bfi ^ d fo r , making application to both : W& m sueh hands as his both may safely ajyi afivaptageoiisly be employed * Not ; so as to inferior naea : and
it 19 . ojuy where verbal investigation ? affords a very scanty help , that recourse should be had to considerations of another kind . The rules , for instance , of Biblical Criticism , and even
those of interpretation , are more definite than the opinions of the several closes of Christians respecting t % the general nature and design of Revelation /' N .
* The Rev . Ww * Wood * Memoirs of hm , hy Wellbi 9 luve 4 , pp . 2 & > 27 v
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fc S % do not vyfeh to sm ik $ cause J $ J ^ of Uaitariarvism aided l > y a sin - gle erroneous interpretation © f Scriptjuriet , ( any more tbap I > y the ^ disin .
genuoas artifices" ^ o £ any Unitarian preachers , ) I was not sorry to find that the Reviewer of Dr . Spry ' s Two Sermons in your last Number , ia treating of Hebrews i . 2 , h ^ S : rejected the interpretation of Grotius * wliicb ^ however , as the interpretation of so
* The Bishop of Chester has lately affirmed , that several Presbyterian coiigregations have been " deluded into Unitarianism by the most disingenuous artifices on the part of some of their preachers . " I wish that his Lordship , of whom I have- been accustomed to think too favourably to suppose that he has thrown
out a random charge without imagining that he has facts to support it , had thought it worth his while to inform U 3 what these artifices have been , and by whom they have been employed . At present the imputation is too vague to be refuted , and * as it Mia on no one indivt-AHaUy , may be opposed'to be app ftcawe to many .
great a man , valkenaer justly thinks ought to be modestly refitted . It is an interpretation to which I never could subscribe , as I do not remember in the course of my reading to have met with a passage in which ha with the genitivs must necessarily be
rendered propter * though I think I have seen one or two ia which it might be r ^ odered indifferently by propter or per . In the passage produced by the Reviewer from Thucydides > L . v . § 53 , hot , does not govern , % & . Ovf / iarac , but T < yv ea-Traal- tp which follows . In L .
vii § 57 , I have always thought that &Apv e $ * which is the reading of several manuscripts , ought to be restored . It is at length adopted in tbe useful edition of Haack , and vvill , I doubt not , be retained in the edition publishing by Poppo . Of Josephus I can say
nothing positively . I think that he use $ OKpikveiarSfai hi a , hoyoiv " ^ which I suspect to be one of the expressions referred to by the Reviewer ^ This oxpreasioo , meaning to bold a
conversation > is analog-ous to 8 # * £% & $ & <; afiiytymcrSrai and : many others ia the best Greek authors . It is used by Euripides in the Medea . Vide desideratissirm Elmsleii notara ad v . 842 . But whatever may be the justice of
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1825, page 388, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2538/page/4/
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