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are * o wv hit irdvruv &co < evXoyyrbt el ? tw $ aluva $ . It is supposed , then , that another article is required , that © cas ought to be be placed before 5 * itl TtavrwY , and that the 6 Sv coming as it does first , must necessarily refer to the nominative in the preceding clause ; and , lastly , that Bvkoy ^ Tbq ought , on our supposition , to come first in the sentence . To prove that another
article is not required , ( which indeed Dr . Middleton does not contend for , only suggesting as the more probable expression of the sense we contend for , ev&ayyrbs b < £ v evil irdvreay 0 « o $ el $ tovq atiSvaq , ) we quote from Philo , p . 860 , Ed . l ( H 0 , ( apud Middleton , ) tov wp © s &kyQtia , v ovroq Beov Clem . Rom . ad Cor . Cap . xxxii , & . « avroxpaTwp $ eo $ . The first is a case precisely in point ; and in the second , xavroKpatTa > p is equivalent with dv ktrt icdvrcov . No doubt if 0 eo <; had been placed first , it would have had a separate article , and the elause would have resembled , for instance , that of the Epistle of
Barnabas , O « o < o ica . vTQ $ rov ytoerfjcov ytvpteveov , S&ttj v / aw , x . r . X . ; but there is no ground whatever for asserting that such an arrangement is necessary to give the sense , or would be on any account , preferable in the present instance ; Again , that 6 dv must refer to a nominative in the preceding sentence , whenever there is one , is altogether an arbitrary assertion , and a rule made
for the occasion . When it is at the beginning of a sentence , it refers of course to a nominative following , of which there are many examples in the New Testament . The question is whether , in the example before us , it does begin a sentence or not , which would in general be very easily determined by the connexion , as we think that it may be in this instance . Lastly , before it is asserted that £ uA <* y » jTbs must stand first for the proper expression of what we take to be the sense of the passage , let it be considered that there is one clear example in the LXX ., Ps . lxviii . 19 , ( which Dr . S .
vainly endeavours to set aside by an unfounded attack on the text , ) of tvXoyyrbs coming last in a doxology , and that in all the instances in the Old Testament there is but one in which sU rov cdSvoc is appended to svXoyyjrb ^ , and there only 6 ® eo $ comes between them . On the other hand , in the New Testament , the words evkoyqThs dg rovq ul £ > vcc <; occur three times , always immediately following one another ; and if they had been here separated , it must have been not by one , but several words , which would have been a harsh construction ; there appears , therefore , to be a sufficient reason for
the sonqewhat unusual position of svXoyyjrbq on our construction , and it cannot be affirmed that it violates any rule . Middieton , indeed , puts the objection to it very modestly ; but Dr . S ., in copying him , has not thought it necessary to observe the same caution . We would add here , that < J M irdvTuv being a recognized title of the < fi Supreme God , ' * expressly appropriated by the early Christian writers to the Father , the grammatical
ambiguity would cause no doubt in any mind as to the true sense , until after the structure of modern orthodoxy had been nearly completed by a corrupt age . Mr . Yates justly appeals to the remarkable imitation of the passage , by Clem . Rom . ad Cor . Cap . xxxii * , where even the words from him ,
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Dr . J . P . Smith's Scripture Testimony to the Messiah . 823
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1831, page 823, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2604/page/27/
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