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    the King . Such is the conclusion of Mr . B . and others , and such the process of reasoning by which that conclusion is arrived at . Now , certainly , it must without hesitation be admitted , that on a superficial view of the matter , there doth appear the semblance of an irreconcileable variance . But the feet is , that a little deeper inquiry , truly calm , will evince that there exists no contradiction in reality ; neither would there have been the appearance of any , if Luke had not been interpreted by his translators in

    a sense which he himself never expressed ; for it is to be observed , that Lukeiii . 1 , ought to have been rendered , "In the fifteenth year of the government or administration" ( jjytfMvlas , ) and not " reign" of Tiberius Caesar . In the very same verse he uses a word of similar derivation and signification , { riyefjLovevovTot ; from vjyEfAoveva , dux sum , J to express that Pilate was " Governor" of Judea ; whereas , when he means to speak of anything relating to reigning properly so denominated , Luke makes use of the

    proper derivative from pao-iXevo , regno , rex sum , to be a king , to reign . Thus , in Luke xix . 14 , " to reign , " fiourikzvvcu : and in twenty places , both in Luke and in the Acts , / WiXefa for kingdom , and jSa < r * Xa ^ for kjng , are used . But when , on the contrary , he speaks of a person being governor 9 then he makes use of a word derived from the same root as the word in question , (• qyepovia <; f ) viz . fysfAuv . For example , in the same verse , Acts xxvi . 30 , © " pao-iXsvs xa < o yyepuv , the king and the governor .

    By the word jjyefMyiae , therefore , in Lukeiii . 1 , it is impossible not to understand that he meant to express the government or administration of Tiberius , as contradistinguished from his " reign . " Now , then , as Tiberius was admitted to the government or administration A . U . 764 , which was three years before the death of Augustus , and in strictness three years before the reign of Tiberius , therefore the fifteenth year of the government or administration of Tiberius was A . U . 779 ; and supposing Jesus to have been then " about thirty , " ( as stated and not disputed , ) then he must have been

    bom in A . U . 749 , which was one or-two years before Herod ' s death : so by merely giving to the word $ yeiMvi ' a <; , which Luke hath used , ( and upon the true meaning of that word the whole question turns , ) the identical signification which other words of a similar derivation unquestionably and invariably bear , wherever that Evangelist hath introduced them in other places ;

    and , on the other hand , by rejecting that meaning which , in other places , the same writer employs a totally different word to express , ( and surely it is a fair test by which to try the real import of any author ' s language , ) the preliminary chapters of Matthew and Luke , and the stated age of Jesus , are caused perfectly to harmonize . What then is the result but this ? That it is Mr . Thomas Belsham ' s

    " Calm Inquiry" into the subject which is " completely falsified , " and not the narrative which is contained in the preliminary chapters of Matthew and Luke . ( To be continued . )

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    To the Editor . Sir , Hackney , Jan , 15 , 1827 . I request permission to lay before your readers part of the contents , of a letter which I have lately received from a respectable minister of the gospel , before unknown to me , residing in the United States of America . This

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    176 UnwersaUsti in America .

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    UNI VERBALISTS IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1827, page 176, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1794/page/16/