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were also drawn up a * i d re&d by ; a tutor in a Protestant Bissenttag college . Dr . Caleb Ast ^^ artb , who , by his Hebrew Grammar and bis Introduction to Plane Trigonometry * had < riven proofs of his eminent skill in selecting and of his perspicuity in
communicating" and illustrating- his topics of instruction , left behind him the manuscript to which we have referred . These unpublished lectures on Hebrew antiquities are copious 1
without beingredundant , and clear and engaging without being superficial : they exhibit a wide compass of reading , and discuss with perfect impartiality many subjects of controversy among scholars . Were they edited , with a few additional notes ,
such as Michaeiis * masterly Commentaries on the haw of Moses and other publications would supply , they would form a most welcome present to students in theology , nor least to
successive pupils in the seminary , for whose immediate benefit they were designed * Gladly , were it in our power , would we save young persons the tedious and often , we fear , the
unprofitable labour of transcribing so extensive a course of lectures ! We know nofr whether the respectable trustees of Mr . Coward would feel themselves authorized to commit this manuscript to the press : but we entertain no doubt that in the event of
their appropriating a part of their funds to a purpose so seasonable and advantageous , they would obtain the gratitude of numerous individuals ; and that the sale of the work would amply defray the expenditure which Jt requires .
Let not these observations be regarded as irrelevant and digressive , in the review of the preface of the translator of Melon ' s Pilgrimage , a
Performance that , while it classes among works of taste , is made by its editor highly subservient to the illustrat ion of Jewish antiquities . Upon the national character of the
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< * To l&ose > ? says fay " who canmti be satisfied ! , unless the Jews are , #£ * serjtyecLas suuk in ail the vices wiite $ mark a people for the vengeance of L heaven * I would suggest how iinprobatyfft is , that , the religious and moral advantages which they enjoyed should not have made them better than ' those whose
corrupt religion , if it had any , had a pernicious , influence on their morals—or that Providence should select the instruments of the moral regeneration of mankind from among a people , whose depravity equalled or exceeded that of the heathen
world . Were this a proper place for entering on such a discussion , it might not be difficult to shew how unjustly we identify the whole body of the people with the hypocritical Pharisees whom our Lord rebuked ; or infer their
ordinary character from what Joseph us says of the atrocities committed by them , when stung by oppression , engaged in a desperate struggle for independence and existeuce , and maddened by faction and fanaticism ; under the influence of which
Christian nations have manifested an equal disregard of justice and humanity . " * We cordially wish that the Editor may have an opportunity of extending
his remarks on a topic so deeply interesting * . His statement admits of yet farther illustration ; and his reasoning * is both theoretically and historically correct . The Jewish people , in common with all their heathen
neighbours , needed the salvation which the gospel proposed to their acceptance . However , the vices of the contemporary Greeks and Romans wefe evidently more flagitious than those of the descendants of Abraham , even at the period of our Saviour ' s advent .
The ascendancy of the Pharisees was , in every view , a most unhappy circumstance— tae worst symptom of public degeneracy and approaching , ruin : but against them , rather than against his countrymen at large , the severest censures of our Lord were
levelled ; and his example would seem to have been followed by Paul towards the beginning of the Epistle to the Romans . f Josephus , it is true , not only records many acts of enormous wickedness on the part of the Jews ,
* Pp . xxii . xxiii , f Ch . ih l / &c .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1826, page 541, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2552/page/33/
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