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kli&tSifl - JHi )¦ * ¦ £ *« t ¦ j ; , ¦ ¦) ; . \ ' , < t > ' -. . ' - ., ' - ¦ ? HAVjE rend \ witlx pleasure FB the I 7 i ^ genlora rcfmarfcs of Tj . . irt wur last M&inber ( p . 20 ) - I think
that h ba # « in effect already replied to them in iny communication for December last , ( XX . 729 , ) particularly by the quotations from Philostratus and the Scholiast on
Theocritu s * I will only add one or twa brief remarks . The w&rd has beeib flesh would ift Greek be expressed by y £ yov £ > It is true that the aorist in Greek is often used for the preterpluperfect , but this use is confined to cases where the meaning of the tense cannot be uncertain . Tbe same
observation may be made respecting the perfect , or rather the aorist in the Latin language * Your correspondent ' s rendering of At < rmro <; l < x § /* ovo $ $ < ysvsT > o would ^ eem to imply that iEsop was born free , but afterwards came into a state of servitude . But
of this Herodotus evidently knew nothing * . To sum up the whole in a few words *—my doctrine is , that in certain eases the primary meaning of yiyv £ < rScu had as little force iii the aorist ysv&rSFou , as the meaning of the Greek xbvo had in the Latin fuisse .
But whether the primary irieaning' of yiyvee&toi was lost in the aorist or not , if yEvecrSratr was Used as an aorist © f etya */ which your correspondent grants that it frequently was , aU that I hare contended for is , in fact , conceded . As to the distinction which
my ingenious opponent makes between the imperfect and the aorist , it Is not founded on any principle with which I happen to be acquainted . With respect ta the import of the term mystery , ( see p : 3 , ) I should have no objection to apply this term
to certain truths which surpass the comprel tension of the humnn intellect , had it not been so egregiously abused . Your correspondent is well aware that words operate as a charm , and the word mystery has been perpetually
employed as a charm to silence reasoning and to disguise absurdity . A proposition is submitted to my consideration couched in terms which either irteftfl nothing or destroy each other , and when this 1 ms been
demonstrated , the advocate of the proposition tells me U > atr his doctrine is a mystery which I-must not expect to understand . Bttt I ask , what is it
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which I must not * ealpee $ <> t $ : # nder stand ? > I « ndei ? 8 tancl m&M i&learty that his proposition , if it means any thihg , Is s ^ ltdestfiioiive and-edftitft ^ dictory , find the only Mystery to m 6 ia that he shouki not liriderstand the
same . But h ^ u rg « s t&at the sit bjeei to which his doctrine relates Is too sublime fo £ the limited faculties of the human mind . Be it so ; but toy concern at present is with an individual proposition upon the falsehood of which I feel myself competent to
pronounce . Bat my adversary still tells me tbat * -I arti not cbnapetent to pronounce upon the falsehood of that which relates to a mysterious subject ; and by the magic of a word he would willingly close my eyes as effectually as he has closed his own . Mystery has been made the last refuge of
baffled argument , and the term has been employee ! to awe the human mind into a blind submission to dogmas at which reason stands aghast , and to which Scripture gives no countenance . Your intelligent correspondent will now see ^ n what my dislike of the term mystety is founded , and I feel persuaded that we cannot materially disagree . E . COGAN ' .
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r 1 W 9 Vbgm W * the Words Ttyvt < r&ou and MitsteFih' - ®
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Hamp&tead , Sir , February 9 , 1826 . A , LLOW me a part of a page in J ^ JL the Monthly Repository , to inform your readers that I shall present & copy of M- Malan ' s Conventiculc de Rotle to l > r . Williams ' s Library in
Red-Cross Street , as soon as it is returned from the bookbinder . It is a curious and authentic document of the doctrines of the modern Swiss Calvinists , and its perusal will afford a triumphant refutation of Dr . Smith ' s charges against me of unfair quotation .
( XX . 730—7340 It seems passing strange that Dr . Smith should defy me publicly to prove from M . Malan ' s writings that he ever maintained the doctrine , " that the elect cannot fall from salvation whatever sius they may commit . " I say it seems strange , after this defiance , thut Dr , Smith
should be angry with me for shewing that M . Malan has asserted this doctrine in the very strongest terms he corrlti possibly use , and ehforced it by various * illustrations * This Dr . Smith cannot now deny , though , with the
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1826, page 85, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2545/page/21/
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