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    stances attending the death of Christ , many MSS ., by the addition of only a letter , read " look on him , " instead of " on me , " which reading is preferred by Kennicott , Newcome , &c . One distinguished critic ( Dr . Blayney , see his translation of Zechariah ) thinks the present Hebrew words may be

    translated " look on him , " and others render them " look to me ( i . e . for pardon ) with respect to him whom they pierced . " So that there can be no necessity for supposing the prophet to have spoken of Jehovah being literally pierced , a sentiment which would have excited the indignation and horror of all his countrymen .

    Section xxxi . Zeoh . xiii . 7 . " Sword ! awake against my shepheVd , against the man of my resemblance , saith Jehovah of hosts . " So Dr . S . ; our Common Version has " the man that is my fellow ; " Archbishop Newcome , " the man that is near unto me ; " Dr . Blayney , " that is next unto me , " observing in a note that it means " next unto me in power and authority , and corresponds with my shepherd in the parallel line ; one that

    rules his flock or people under me by virtue of my commission , " and he quotes Calvin to the same purpose . The Hebrew word is explained in the lexicons a friend , neighbour , or companion . The radical meaning is

    participation , having something in common . Dr . S ., as might be expected , contends for equality of rank and identity of nature . More modestly and justly Dr . Boothroyd : " I adhere to the version , my felloiv , because I think there is the same ambiguity in the term , as in the original : it may mean ' intimate friend and associate ; ' one engaged in that work which his wisdom had planned from eternity ; or it may signify the man who is at the same time a Divine person , ' my equal , ' as enjoying" the same nature "—Boothroyd , as quoted by Smith , Script . Test . p . 477 , note , 2 nd ed .

    The words , in truth , may be accommodated to , but can never prove , the doctrine of Christ ' s deity , and it is proof which we require . We have now examined every text adduced by Dr . S . from the Old Testament , which , as translated and inter preted by him , contains any thing inconsistent with the Unitarian doctrine , and we submit our remarks to the

    inquiring and candid reader with great confidence as to the result . There may be a few passages which , supposing the Deity of Christ , and his participation in the peculiar and sacred name Jehovah , to be independently and

    incontestably established , might admit of interpretation conformably with those doctrines , but there is not one which does not admit of ready and

    natural explanation on other principles , and the greater number may perhaps seem to be incapable of bearing the sense which has been assigned to them . We have a few observations yet to offer on the remaining portions of Dr . S . ' s Second Book . But we think we have already established solid ground for the conclusion , not only as has been admitted by many learned defenders of the Trinity , that no proof of that doctrine can be found in the Old Testament , but that nothing at all plausible can be thence produced in favour of the reputedly orthodox views respecting our Lord ' s person , and therefore that an examination of the evidence of the New Testament is

    abundantly sufficient to determine the controversy , and Mr . Belsham was by no means called upon to say any thing more on the passages appealed to from the Old Testament , than he has had the opportunity of saying conformably with the plan he has adopted . ( To be continued . )

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    248 Dr . J . P . Smith's Scripture Testimony to the Messiah .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1831, page 248, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2596/page/32/