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way in which you would feel on the subject , as to the best mode of rendering our assistance . [ Some details were then gone into , with which it is unnecessary to trouble our readers . The conversation is resumed when it became more general . } Caleb . How have the Orthodox Magazines behaved of late ?
Ebion Adamson . They have not forgotten the Watchman , and they keep the peace pretty well . Moreover , the best of them begin to perceive that their own creeds and preachments are behind the times in which we live . They want a new translation of the Scriptures . I wish they would try their hands at an Improved Version .
Barnabas . The result might moderate their tone when they speak of ours ; which is , in truth , very needlessly offensive .
Philo . All light is offensive to the darkness . Criticism is thrown away upon people who only regard the sound of the words and the associations of their childhood .
Caleb . There is an end of the reproach then that the old Bible would not do for Socinians ; and that they made a new one to answer their own purposes .
Ebion Abamsoj * . . There is never an end of the reproach which orthodoxy hurls at heresy . If it loses one topic , it will fasten upon another . As to this very point , what has the Improved Version ever been to us ? In how many pulpits has it ever been read ? Who has ever disused the Common Version for the sake of using it ? We have always regarded it as a well-meant and able attempt , and a good help to the study of the New Testament ; and nothing more . Barnabas . How much it would tend to allay disputation , and bring us towards agreement on many points , if some of our best scholars were united with theirs , in order to produce a translation which should be satisfactory to all parties ! Caleb . Hope it not , brother Barnabas . Greater division is much more likely , than closer union . Are they not making and meditating attacks upon our Trusts and Endowments ? Are they not effecting a local exclusion of us from the Bible Societies , and planning a general one ? Have they not , even now , removed the Anniversary of the Widows Fund fronrj Jewin Street ?
Ebion Adamson . That is rather a bathos of a grievance ; though it certainly shews the animus of the party . But I mentioned this new translation scheme as an indication of their feeling that they were behind the spirit of the age , and must whip up , or be distanced . They shew other symptoms . One would think they had taken a page out of that admirable Sermon of J . J . Tayler ' s , which so delighted us at the last Anniversary of the Association . Philo . How so ?
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Ebion Adamson and his Friends . 191
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1831, page 191, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2595/page/47/
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