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Though in the present day we cannot expect any thing very new on the evidences of the Jewish and Christian revelations , we yet . hair with cordial pleasure the appearance of such works . as these Discourses of Monsieur CelleVier . The * y are the productions of a man who is well versed iti his subject , and the spirit in which they are written , shews that the attention which
the author has bestowed on the drier parts of theological : inquiry ,-f has neither closed his eyes to the beauties , nor sealed his heart against the purifying and elevating influences , of the sacred page . His manner throughout is clear and striking ; and though we feel compelled to state our opinion , that . these treatises are somewhat too jnuch cut up and distributed among a
multiplicity of topics , and that it would have been better had some points been more fully discussed , and others left unnoticed , we have no hesitation in saying , that they will furnish a fund of interesting information to many who would not have the patience to read longer works , and that they will probably excite others to enter on a more extended investigation of subjects which are here only touched upon .
In the first Discourse , and in the Notes and Illustrations which follow it , the author treats of the genuineness of the Pentateuch , the confirmation which the Mosaic account of the creation derives from the progress of modem science ; the inspiration of Moses ; the design of the Jewish dispensation ; the superior knowledge of the true God among the Jews to that of the
Heathen philosophers ; and the mistaken views which are commonly entertained respecting the Old-Testament history and dispensation * We shall not follow M . Celterier through these details , but shall present our readers , with the translation of a single passage , as a specimen of his style both of reasoning and of writing . . .
" Do you see that stupid people who , despised by the human race , vegetate obstinately on a small spot of earth ? But little advanced in civilization , they pretend to no literary or scientific reputation ; they have neither celebrated philosophers nor distinguished artists . They remain strangers : to that progress of intellect , which draws in its train the nations of Greece and of tlie East ; -their language is poor , their ignorance extreme ; their thoughts
remain undeveloped , and tbeir minds inactive ; they are among other nations almost what those ill-formed beings are among ; men , who are condemned by the imperfection of their faculties to vegetate in a long childhood . They do , however , know one thing , one thing only , and they are the only persons , who do know it—rthe only persons who possess this knowledge , which was refused to the wisdom of the Greeks , and the pride of the Orientals . This
know-* De TOrigine Autheutique et Divine de 1 'Ancien Testanrent . Discours accompagne * de DeVeloppemena et de Notes . Par J . E . Celle ' rier , fils , Ancieu Pasteur , Professeui * d'Hlbreu , de Critique et d'Autiquite ' s Sacre ' es a TAcad ^ mie de Gen eve . Geneve et Paris , 1826 . 12 mo . pp . 282 . De rOrifljne AuthentSque et Divine du Nouveau Testament . Discours accompagn £ de Dtfveloppeinens . Par J . E . CeJle " i ier , fils , Ancfen Pasteur \ &c . Geneve , Chubulier ; Paris , T . Baltimore , Rue de Seine . 1829 . 12 mo . pp . 415 . ia the of
t M . Cel ^ rier author a Hebrew Grammar , and of a much-esteemed work , entitled ; " Essai d'une Introduction Critique au Nouveau Testament , ou Analyse raisonne ' e de Touvrage intitule , Einlitung in die Schuiften uesN . T ., c'est A dire , Introduction aux Ecrits du Nouveau Te / stamcut , par J . h . Hug , Piofesseur en The * ologie ^ ltJniversit ^ de Fribou rg en Brfogaw , 2 Edition , 1821 . " Genfevc . 1823 .
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* ¦ CELL ^ JIIER ' S DISCOeRSBS ON THJE OLD AND NEW TESTAMENT . *
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1829, page 688, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2577/page/16/
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