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    248 On Gun. i. 26.

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    To The Editor Of The Monthly Repository.

    that this is plainly revealed and testified in the Scriptures , for it is written , In the beginning was the word * and the word was with

    God , All things were created by him , and without him was not any thing made that was made , Johni . 1 and 3 . God created all things by Jesus Christ , Eph .

    iii » 9 , Do not these Scriptures , then , and others of the like nature , plainly and fully prove , that there were but two persons who created all things , viz . the Father and the

    Son ; and that God the Father made the worlds by his Son , and that the Son is a being inferior to the Father ? If these texts

    compared together do not plainly and expressly declare these things , can there be any certainty in the meaning of words or language ? Must not persons be under the influence of strong prejudices who deny this ? Nor does it appear

    how any one , without wresting and perverting the obvious meaning of the words and sense of Scripture , can put a different meaning and cons t ruction on them ? In all those passages in which

    the work of creation is mentioned , or referred to , there is ho instance of a third person being mentioned ; therefore , it is believed that , though God created all things by

    Christ , through the power of his spirit , yet the spirit is not considered , nor spoken of , as a distinct person from God the Father , as the Son always is .

    Thus far as to the explanation of this and other texts , on what is callcrd the Arian scheme . Now thfcn let us attend to that of the Unitarians and Socinians . Respecting the expression ^ " Let us make man , " Geddes remarks ,

    To The Editor Of The Monthly Repository.

    that some of the Jewish writers , Cc with whom agree some of our best modern commentators , find in c Let us make' no more than

    an emphatical and majestic mode of expression , insinuating both the power of the Creator , and the dignity of the created . " He cites the Song of Solomon , i . 4 , 11 ; viii . 8 . as instances , among several

    others , of that poem , in which the plural is used for the singular . Nor is it peculiar to the Hebrew : it is quite familiar to the Arabs . The Mussulmenare certainly no Trinitarians ; yet nothing is more common in the Koran , than God ' s

    speaking in the plural number , * We did , we gave , we commanded . " Dr . Carpenter ' Letters to Mr . Veysie , note D . p . 357 . It hath been the usual practice , in every language , to use the

    plural number , when any one exhorts himself , though alone , to do any thing , or determines to t \ oHity if he express himself in that form , which would require the subjunctive mood in the Greek or Latin ; as in Livy , lib . xxxix . Hanni ba ^

    when he i ^ voluntary about to swallow poison , says , Let us deliver the Roman people from a perpetual trouble . * Dr . TouJmin ' s Memoirs of the Life , Sec . of Faustus Sorimus , Appendix i . p . 397 *

    The writer of this wish-es to see the observations of your correspondents , on the following , which is A LITERARY QUESTION . What was the original of let . What was the original of

    letters ? were they invented by ? nen , or discovered Yowttn by revelation ? If invented by men , when and by whom ? If revealed , whettj and to whom i A

    FARMER-* Socini Opera , p . 144 . col . 1 .

    248 On Gun. I. 26.

    248 On Gun . i . 26 .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1810, page 248, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/mrp_02051810/page/32/