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MISCELLANEOUS CORRESPONDENCE.
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Ah ! many a thought of home and home ' s sweet calm Comes o ' er his soul and stays his nerveless arm ! " The tender teachings of a mother ' s breast Light on his thought , in all their worth confest ! And she—the fairest in his doating eye , Whose tears and kisses sooth'd his parting sigh , — Could she now see him , would her
soul confess Her lov'd oue ' s form beneath that blood-stain'd dress ?
Or dare believe her Edwin's heart could bear To see the murders he is aiding there ? Sadly he thinks and sighs , for well he knows Her angel-heart with purest kindness glows , And , 'mid the mob's unmeaning , mad applause , His conscience tells of heav ' n ' s offended laws . " Pp . 71 , 72 .
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On Naaman's Bowing- in the House ofRimmon . To the Editor . Sir , On taking up the Christian Moderator my attention was lately arrested by a criticism under the signature V . on 2 Kings v . 18 , 19 , which induced me to examine the passage and the opinion of
other commentators , and I shall , if you please to accept it , state the result of my investigation . Naaman , a Syrian nobleman , ouc of the principal officers of the king , being afflicted with leprosy , which was considered as an incurable disorder , is induced by an israeUtish slave to apply to the Prophet Eiisha . He obtains a letter from the king * his master ; to the
King of Israel , and having gone to the prophet , receives from him directions to wash in the river Jordan . On being cured in this simple and easy way , he is convinced that Eiisha must be a prophet of the true God , and that he has hitherto been a worshiper of false gods . He
rewolves , therefore , "to offer neither burntoffering nor sacrifice uuto other Gods , but unto Jehovah . " Then follows , in our Common Version , ( and it is agreeable not only to the Septuagint , but , as far as I have been able to ascertain , to all the ancient versions and
commentaries , ) " lu this thing the Lord pardon thy servant , that when my master goeth into the house of Rimmon to worship there , and he leaneth on my hand , and 1 bow myself in the house of Rimmon : when 1 bow down myself in the house of
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Rimmon , the Lord pardon thy servant in this thing . And he ( Eiisha ) said unto him , Go iu peace . " We have here the converted courtier , bargaining , as it were , for such compliance with idolatrous practice as would enable him to retain the favour of his earthly master ; and we have God ' s prophet seeming to coucur in this compromise with principle : for ,
without any censure , he gives him the parting salutation , " Go in peace . " We Christians have been taught that no one should do evil that good may come , and still less can we approve of sinning against the most high God to please an earthly sovereign . We cannot wonder then that pious men have been staggered by this passage , and that much ingenuity
has been exerted to justify Naaman ' s conduct , or at best to palliate it so far as to vindicate EHsha ' s part in the transaction . I shall not detain your readers by stating these various suggestions , but shall proceed to my object , which is to notice V . 's mode of removing the difficulty , in which he was , according to Adam Clarke , anticipated by the celebrated Light foot . Adam Clarke
decidedly adopts the opinion , aud it is one of the improvements on which Mr . Bellamy laid great stress in his proposals for publishing a new version . This mode of getting free from the difficulty is to use the past tense instead of the future , and it has been Ingeniously shewn that the Hebrew may be so translated . The passage will then run as given in the margin of Bagster ' s comprehensive Bible , " In this thing the Lord pardon thy servant ,
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348 Miscellaneous Correspondence .
Miscellaneous Correspondence.
MISCELLANEOUS CORRESPONDENCE .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1831, page 348, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2597/page/60/
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