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    the N . V , as it is equally unfounded with the claims of % og C % vscou 8 st $ 9 to the character of good Greek , and to a place in the room of the corrected text € og

    s 0 z ? £ gcv 9 r And the observation is very natural on this occasion , how tenacious poor humanity is to . retain its errors as well as its best founded opinions . As the

    first ground was not tenable , Theologus lias shifted his station , and occupied another equally defenceless , rather than give up the contest .

    The reverse . o . f Theologus ' s assertion is to a . certainty the exaxt truth . ' Og never stands for ogng or * o $ qs » This observation is not naade rashly . Jn some cases , these may seem to occupy its place , but not without a consi- *

    durable difference of meaning in realit y ^ to be discovered only by a nice attention to the powers of <^ ach . * O $ simply is never vscd indefinitely , it is always definite although it may be vised on occasions when the sense is such as that

    Jt is indifferent whether it be exT pressed definitely or indefinitely And all that can then be inferred is that the sentence is in a definite form when it might have taken a contrary one without incongruity .

    In that case the translation may , hy courtesy , be indefinite , though n cannot be sp in strictness . In other words , * o $ n $ or * osos or K o $ ¦ w ay be used iu such sentences indifferentl y , but they are never equivalent , though xiie nature of

    tlie subject may render them undeserving of preference . As well may we say that the sentence is definite where ' osns is employed as affirm , that it is definite wht , n £ W enters into its composition . this , the very , etymology is a

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    sufficient proof . But I will ill ustrate by an example . " The man f . who assumes the appellation of a , divine without a large acquaintance with philology , mistakes bis plac e , " This sentence is definite to a certain degree . It is not , certainly indefinite . And yet it would have been quite as well to have said ,, " Whoever ^ or any man v > Iio Spc . " In sljort , * x >§ simply is never indefinite properly speaking , . B \ it it is not on such mixed definite , or imperfect definite , occasions , alone that * &s is employed . It is used u when the subject is . quite deJinitCy" as that is in 1 Tim , iii . 16 . And I must beg -leaves . U > observe that there is but one

    othm * mode in which such quite definite subjects can be expressed ,, # 12 . that supplied in my last communication instead of the * o $ . < pa , vegw-6 ei $ , of Theologus . You have a choice only-. o |" o < poty £ gu > $£ < it and * og . stpavzowbr ^ . Your

    correspondent probably m * ant the first * If . so , I have his own acknowledgment that it is quite dgfwj&g And yet it is not more definite than the last , as they are u&txj

    promiscuously on the very same occasions , and thje definite article with the participle is employed q , s often as the relative with the vert * in expressing definite subjects , or in other words , it is o& often used

    wjjien it is indifferent whether the thing be predicated definitely or indeiiiyteJy . . As this matter should be settleii vncp for all * 1 will subjoin some authorities to prove two prop < j $ j « tiohs into which the whole subject resolves itself . Aftc ^ ' this the tex t of the N . V , in Tim . iii .. l& will

    never probabl y / be attacked on the sauie grou ^ iU It is © ot my

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    Vindication of t 7 te Improved Version , 1 Tvm . iii . 16 . 271

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    vol . xv . " a K

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1809, page 271, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1736/page/25/