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    "THE COUNTRY SCHOOLMASTER OK HIS REMARKS...

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    To the Editor of the Jbfontkly Repositor...

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    "The Country Schoolmaster Ok His Remarks...

    "THE COUNTRY SCHOOLMASTER OK HIS REMARKS ON THE " " IMPROVE !) TBRSlOSf .

    To The Editor Of The Jbfontkly Repositor...

    To the Editor of the Jbfontkly Repository .

    April Iff , 1810 / si % I beg leave tor request the insertion of a few observations on your correspondent , N / s remarks ( p . 116 . ) upon a letter of mine , which appeared in your last volume , [ Vol . iv- p- 200 . ] In the first place , I wilt assure him , that , humble as my . station in life is , I really know u the difference between translating the Scriptures and expounding or paraphrasing them " As to the addition of

    some " doctrinal * notes , " to vindicate a departure from the commonly-received Version in some very material points , there are many who think it exceedingly proper and right . And the

    reason , for win eh bc ^ th myself and others conaplain of the Improved Version is this , —that > though it has long been a subject of [ lamentation to Unitarians , that anti * Christian doctrines were supported by gross mis-translations of

    Scripture , yer , when some of the most able persons among them had it in their power to give what ( according to their own avowed opinions ) they must think more exact renderings of the original , they have , in so many material instances , either retained the old

    versiqn , or given us another little , veijy little , differing from it ; by which we are still misled , and they tl ^ mselves have built up the faith they have so often endeavoured to destroy . To instance iu t ^ vo points only ; How can persons , who maintain that Jesus Christwas a mere man , consistently

    To The Editor Of The Jbfontkly Repositor...

    admit that the Word ( meaning Jesus Christ ) was a . god , or that the fulness of the Deity dwelleth in him ? If their own opinion be true , must not such translations ( so likely to mislead the greater part of readers ) be indefensible ? If these translations ( in the sense

    in which they will generally be understood ) be just , must not their opinions be unscrjptural ? With what consistency , too , is the declaration , ( Matth . xxv . 46 )

    that some shall go away into everlasting punishment , retained by persons who , in tfaeir note on the passage , allow , that the word

    translated ^ ' punisbment" properly signifies " correction for the benefit of the offender , " and that the word translated U everlasting ^ is often used to " express a long but indefinite duration' * ? If (

    according to what N , appears to insinuate ) it was improper that the New Version should contain any doctrinal notes , might not the authors of it have given us in the text the translation they have ( it seems ) enabled us to derive from their

    note , These shall go away to lasting correction' * ? Have they not , in these instances , and in ma * iy others in fact , made themselves accessary to the support

    apd propagation of opinions which they themselves must deem unscriptural ? And is there not just cause for complaint , that the Dqtes , containing a preservation from the mischievous effects of

    translations whiqh tjhey themselves almost allow to be erroneous , arc omitted in that yj ^ ry coition whick

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1810, page 234, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/mrp_02051810/page/18/