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1 Tim . vi . 12 , " Fight the good fight of faith . " This translation is so far exceptionable , that it does not retain the specific
image of the original [ ayuvtfyv rov itaXov cvy <»> va . riqq 7 tos ~ £ & $ ] > 3 H image borrowed apparently from one of the games of Greece . Lardner , [ Works , X . 244 , 245 , ed . of 1788 , ] who well explains the clause , proposes as a more correct translation " exercise the good exercise / ' &c . This is better than the received version ; yet perhaps not equal to Worsley ' s , <* Maintain the g lorious combat of faith . "
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It gave us great pleasure to see , the other day , a new , enlarged , and improved edition , the sixth , of that very useful little book , Dr . Carpenter ' s Introduction to the Geography of the New Testament . The extensive circulation of such works is much more to be desired than that of Catechisms and Commentaries . How very indistinct and infantile are the notions of many bodily full-grown readers of the Scriptures , as to the locality of the
transactions which those Scriptures record ! What a want of reality there is in their conceptions of the events of sacred history ! For any thing which they distinctly apprehend to the contrary , those events might have happened in the Island of Atalantis , or beyond the frontiers of Utopia , or even in the moon . It is something , and a very important something too , for them
actually to have the latitude and longitude , in numerals , of Jerusalem before their eyes ; to measure with a compass and a scale of miles its distance from Jericho , and Beersheba , and Samaria , and Tiberias , and Bethabara beyond Jordan ; to learn the height of the mountains , the course of the rivers , the length and breadth of the lakes , and calculate the number of square miles in the Land of Promise ; and to trace its boundaries , and the countries from
which those boundaries parted it , and identify existing towns and regions which have corrupted or exchanged their ancient appellations . A process of this kind is necessary to bring quite home to many sluggish imaginations the fact that Judea was of this world , and in this world ; that it had as real an existence as Wales or Scotland ; its soil the same sort of earth ; its streams the same sort of water ; and its inhabitants the very same species of human beings .
If the great mass of the religious world would but take to studies of this kind , and there is we hope an increasing disposition to do so , many and important advantages might reasonably be expected to result . The better apprehended reality of the scene might perhaps impart a clearer spd deeper sense of the reality of the religion by which it is consecrated . They may
not have learned the important truth that the Gospel History i » the gospel ; but in every scheme of theology that history is 30 prominent a portion that a vivid perception of its localities may be expected to reflect some of its vividness upon faith itself , and aid in dissipating that mental mistiness which forms so unfavourable a medium for the power of faith to operate through . There would be pictures in the mind where now there are only words . The
* Traditions of Palestine . Edited by Harriet Martineau . Demy I 2 mo . pju 14 $ ,
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1830, page 521, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2587/page/17/
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