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    thorrty of this excellent prelate will , with the . candid and discerning , weigh at least as much as the combined opinions of Dr . Hey and the Quarterly

    Reviewer . If any one wishes to see arguments and authorities more at length , and a complete and satisfactory reply to all the popular objections against an Improved Version of the Holy Scriptures ,

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    CORRECTION OF A MISTAKE OF THEOLOGUS ' . i *

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    he may consult a work of the ami * able , learned and pious archbishop Newcome , entitled " An Historical View of English Ribli * cal Translations . ?> Reserving for a future commu .

    nication my reply to the Review , er ' s observations upon the dispute ed chapters in Matthew and Luke , I am , Sir ^ Yoursj &c « B .

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    messengers ^ supposing it to mean the apostles . * By this the passage is robbed not only of its original beauty , but of its meaning . "—I stared when I read this sentence , and turned to the passage in the Imp . Version , where I found it to be thus translated . — Take heed

    that ye despise not one of these little ones , for I say unto you , that their angels in heaven always behold the face of my Father that is in heaven . " Where Iheologus found the phrase chosen messengers I know not ;

    certainly it does not appear in that part of the Improved Version , where he has chosen to place it . I am , Sir , Your constant reader , FAIR PLAY .

    { his , let him compare all those versions with &s much pains and patience as I have done , and then let him contradict me . "—Dr . Geddes Gen . Ans . p- 4-" In regard to the common translation , " says Dr . Campbell , *« though not entirely exempted from the influence of party and example , it is upon the whole one of the best of those composed so soon after the Re formation . But since that tintf it mu t be owned things are geatly altered in the church . The refgn of scholastic sophistry and altercation is pretty well over . Now when to this reflection we ao a proper attention to the great acquisitions in literature which haye of late been made , in j espect not only of languages , but al > o of antiquities and criticism . It ca hot be thought derogatory fr 6 m the merit and abilities of those worthy men vv formerly bestowed their time and labour on that important work , to suppose t a many mistakes which were then inevitable , we are now in a condition to toxtcc . Campbell's Translation , V . I . p . 568 .

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    To the Editor of the Jdtmtkly Repository .

    sirj May 20 , 1 . 809 . I am no Greek scholar , and therefore your correspondent ic Theologtis , " may think me far beneath his notice . However

    that may be , I shall venture to set him ri g ht in a mistake which he has committed in his zeal to undervalue the Improved Version . In the Repository for April , page 5213 , he remarks upon the rendering of Matthew xviii . 10 .

    -tyhich he says ought to be as follows : Be ye careful not to despise one of these little ones ^ for they stand high in the estimation , and enjoy the peculiar protection of Almighty God . " At least he

    pronounces this to be the rneaning of the pa&age . He then observes , cC The editors of the I . V . have rendered the phrase chosen

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    382 Correction of a Mistake of Theotogus \

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1809, page 382, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1738/page/28/