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importance , fpr thoseynfa wfcmgta decision of this and other similar points will rest , \\ w % they endeavour to provide us with an edition of the New Testament of 9 , truly valuable and unobjectionable character . But such an edition must not be a party book ; the Scriptures are the
common ground of all parties ; we ought to use a version which , while it does us justice , does our opponents justice also . Such a version ought to preserve , as far as possible , even the ambiguities of the original ; it ought in short to know nothing about contending dogmas , and to aim at nothing more than to place the English reader , as nearly as possible , in the same position for forming his judgment which would be enjoyed by one who was reading the original . Another very important principle I conceive to be , that of not departing , without some considerable reason , from the text
commonly received , the reasons of which principle are too obvious to need enforcement . I must now say something in reply to my candid and scholar-like opponent Mr . Cogan . After considering carefully all the quotations which he has transcribed in order to illustrate
the use of the word ytyveo-Oat , I cannot concede to him that any one of them is such as t ; o justify us in translating- ^ Xoyoq < rctp ! j eyevero — " the word was flesh /* It is a very just remark , assuredly ^ thaf ywe < r 6 ai is
frequently used as an aorist to eTvai . If proof were wanting of this , the passages quoted by Mr . C . would afford that proof . But the aorist is very different from the imperfect , and if the imperfect is the tense which the proposed rendering expresses , as I conceive it is , to prove that yevea-Oat
13 used for the aorist is very little to the purpose . Yiyve < r 6 ai 9 as Mr , C . observes , expresses properly the commencement of a state of being ; it signifies to come into some stat § or mode of existence , to become , or to come to be , if I may use such an expression . And the aorist of this verb ,
eyeveTo , asserts simply , that a thing has come into such and such a state of being-, that it has come to be this or that . An aorist of uvcu , had there been such a tense to that verb , would assert the naked fact of past existence , without implying its cOiA ^ ce ^ went 3 but aa in all cases of whfch we
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have commonly te sp&fcxMfefo exist * ^ pp muM , © eedft m &a 4 ^ j | cora ^ m engine i \ t j and $ s ^ ? & * 1 fc $ t fPtfew hand , the sense of yeyetr 6 at % m& * Jftr commence or come into ^ onae mode
© f existence , necessarily implies , the feet ofi £$ ich existence , it follow ^ th ^ the signification of < y $ ) 0 rGai fc m - ^ Mf ^ nearly equivalent to thafe of 9 »^ aBm $ « Va * , that it mwmthgmt ^ g ^^ m ^ be used $ 0 supply Gfre pfttce $ p 4 / Qg $$ ; tense , and in any case in which suehr a ^ n aorist would have been proper , w ^
have no reason to question the propriety of using the word yavEtrBat . But , I repeat it , the presentees not appear to me to be such a else - An aorist of ttyaiy had such a tense been used in this place , would h ^ ve expressed rather the sense of , the word
has been flesh . The word ' * feeillg flesh , not being , according Jlo the $$ m cinian interpretation , a contingent or accidental circumstance befalling th& Kayos , but a description of its permanent nature , the mode of expressioa should be couched in the imperfect it
tense , 6 Xoyoq y \ v < rap ^ , just as was , said before 0 \ oyo <; 9 jv ® eoq . Mr . C . will observe , that the quotations he has made refer to the contingent circumstances which happen to pe | soji 8 < or things in the course of thefe existence , and , consequently , it ^ i | paW ways with equal propriety be " said ,,
that such persons or things becam * , or oame to be such , as that they were such . A commencing , or entering into , such circumstances is implied . SfiXoi < nnc Eyevovra ev rri iro \ & — . " Such Sjpifttof soldiers had not . cometo 6 ^ , bad not come into existence , or been Introduced into the city . "
The aorist , moreover , i 3 continually used in the sense of what we call in English the preter-pluperfect ; there is commonly no other w ^ jr pf expressing this tense of ours in Greek ,, as what is called in Greek Grammar the plusquam perfectum has a very different and much more limited &ens £ U
Eysj / ETo vj ocpxvj $ O $ jptxr # v , &C—f * The government of the Odrysians had be-. come , in extent , such as to reaeh the sea r" &c * So Ai < rw 7 ro ^ Ia&flivo ^ syevETQ— " iEsop came to be , or had come to be , the slave of Iadmon . "
The passage from the Septuagiut * vtos"iy ^ M " eygvofAYiv icqbyco iraTpt ^ irqKQoq , &C . ^ cMTers from o Acyo <; aocp ^ eyev-6 tra | H&KUSa iisuiKOoq and euywvcppevoq txpr ^ a circuuistunces into which the
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1826, page 21, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2544/page/21/
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