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things , as the following quotations will manifest : crsucrpQS eysvsTc , Matt . viii . 24 5 < pwvvj eyevsro , Mart i . 1 J ; to < raj 3 j 8 « Toy tia tqv avOpuTrov sytvzro , Mark ii . 27 ; av 6 pcrit 8 $ rec ; ko , & * o / mi&o'w ® e 8 ytyovoToct ; , James iii . . 9 j ziq to f * vj sk ( fyctwofAZvoov to , fi \ £ 7 ro !< / , £ vx yzyovivou , Heb . xi . 3 . To these phrases , that before US , the o KOJ-fJLog syevsTo , the world was made or came into existence ,
is perfectly analagous , and this rendering appears to me , in a critical point of view , entirely unobjectionable . But not such is the Socjnian rendering of a subsequent verse . Kai Aoyo $ crap % zyzviro . And the word
was flesh . The word eyevsro is thus taken as merely equivalent to vjfv , or , as the logicians term it , it is used simply as the copula of the proposition . Now I call on those who favour
this translation to produce a single instance in which this word yevea-Bat is used in such a manner . It is altogether foreign to its meaning . It always signifies either to come into existence , or to pass from one condition
to another . A transition , or change of state , is always implied by this word . Socinus , indeed , flourishes finely , and says , " Nemo qui Graecas literas vel a limine salutaverit , ignorat haec verba noa minus , Et verbum
caro fuity quam Et verbum carofac ~ turn est , et bene et proprie verti posse . ** And to prove this , out of numberless examples , he says , he will only produce one , but I must say I
think him not very happy in his choice . It is this , Oq tyiV £ TQ < xvr \ p tt ^ g ^ vjttj c dvy / arcq cpyw y . ui \ oycp . Now , certainly if it were necessary that this passage should be rendered , " Who was a
prophet , " his inference might stand ; but as it is just as proper to translate it , " Which man became a prophet , mighty in word and deed /* it falls to the ground . I repeat my challenge ; let a single instance be produced in which tyeveTo is a mere copula ,
equivalent only to r \ v . Till that is done I shall regard the translation , " the Word was flesh , " as false and inadmissible , and as involving the whole of this Socinian interpretation in the same predicament . With your permission , Mr . Editor , I shall shortly add some further observations on the same subject , T . F . B .
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Sir , August 25 , 1825 . 1 AM very much at a loss to know how to answer the modest demand of your correspondent I ., ( p . 403 , ) and to endeavour to set his mind at rest
on the somewhat curious point , of a real Christian indulging- great doubts of a miraculous agency in many of those facts , which the idiom of the Hebrew language , or rather that style of language which the writer adopted , has delivered to us in the character of miracle . I have been told that some
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Sm , IT may gratify some of your readers , to be informed , that a substantial tomb has just been erected in Bunhill Fields , to the memory of the late Rev . and excellent Theophilus
Lindsey . The expense was borne by the Rev . Mr . Belsham and a committee of gentlemen , consisting chiefly of his old friends , who justly admire his truly excellent character and exemplary virtues . The following are tlie inscriptions on the tomb :
On the side , Iu this vault repores the Rev . Theophilus Lindse V , M . A ., late of St . John ' s College in the University of Cambridge , and some time Vicar of Catterick , in Yorkshire . Having resigned his preferment
in the Church for the sake of Truth and a good Conscience , he became the Founder of tlie Chapel in Essex Street . This venerable Confessor ended his blameless and exemplary life , 3 rd day of November , ftiDcccvm . Aged lxxxvi .
On one end , Mrs . Hannah Lindsey , relict of the late Rev . Theophilus Lindsey , survived her venerable Consort little more than three years , and , full of hope and of good works , expired 18 th January , mdcccxik aged lxxii . On the other end *
Mrs . Elizabeth Rayner , nearly allied in blood to the illustrious house of Percy , esteemed it a still greater honour to be the friend and fellow-worshiper of Mr . and Mrs . Lindsey , and by her own desire was deposited in the same grave , Mrs . Rayiier died aged lxxxiv .
It is in contemplation to place a marble tablet with a longer inscription to his memory , in the Chapel in Essex Street , by the same gentlemen E . D .
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538 Monument to the late Rev . Theophilus Lindsey .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1825, page 538, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2540/page/24/
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