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    JCs ^ rdy ought to be translated * Jehovah the' Messenger . * ' I shall 4 pt'ice the latter assertion first , and * shew that such a translation of the wqrds is contrary both to reason apd sjcripture . ' The ideal meaning of Jehovah , r he says , is self * existenceV The natural meaning of angel , or messenger , is a

    servant ; ah angel says to John , ** 1 am thy fellow * servaht , and of thy brethren that have the testimony ot Jesus : worship Godf ^ ' Antd the apostle , speaking of angels ^ puts the following interrogation : < c Are they not 4 IL ministering

    spirits ?' The translation , " Jeho-Vah the Messenger , " is just as good sense then as ' jtte self-existent , independent servanj :. The clergyman ' s translation , however boldly he may assert it to be the true one ,

    we are sure js riot so , because it is contfadic ted by an i n s p i red translatidn of those very words . Acts ^

    vij . 30 , " TJiere Appeared to him , " says Stephc p > " alysXog Kvpis , an angel of the Itordy in a flame of fire in a bush . " Those words

    capnot be rendered , The Lord the JMessefiger . And that this angel > vas not God or Jehovah we learn \ v . 35 ' " , Thjs Motes whom they refused , ^ saying , Who made thee a ruler" and a judge ? the same did God Mnd to be a ruler

    and a deliverer by ( he hand oj the angel , which appeared to him in the ' bush . 'Blithe adds , " Wlierever this divine personage ( that is , Jehovali the Messenger ) \ appears , ' . he is uniformly represented , as being God / and p rouces as a remarkable instance

    of j 4 , jjfen , xjyin . J 5 16 , where he says , angej ^' or ** messeftger is used as synonymous with the God * Ml Rcjjos . vol . ii . p . 411 , f Rev . six . ic .

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    . - , ¦ of Abraham and Jsaafe . " That the Divine Being is there addressed 1 V certain , oiit that he is ever addressed jLfnderthe naihe of <( t angel ' or ^ messenger ^ ' isrimpossible to be supposed , for to whom tould the God pf Abraharri be a messenger

    or servant ? The word ~ angel , therefore , in this passage must ^ be supposed lo be a corruption of the original reading ; and that it is so 1 shall shew by transcribing a ho to of the learned Jos . Hallett ^ s

    i | pon the passageJ . Gen . x 1 vi i i . « f 4 , ib 9 f 16 , " Updn " which text left it be rioted , by the way , that in th < tp ^ ^ nt Hebrew * co pies , there is" a plain mistake of the tr ^ ns 4 ctffbers , who have wrote it , the

    angel who redeemed Yftt . The mistake indeed is yfety ancient , as appears from its having ran into the Greek ; Latin , anil Arabic , as well as into '"¦ the Chaldee , ' Syriac , and Persic versions of this testt . Bat the

    true drigihal reading is ^ preserved in that invaluable treasure , the Saintiritan Paritate&vk ; wher ^ both in the teit and -version , the wor < l is , king , not angel , which iri Hebrew areas near alike 4 WkMalk

    and Malak . This obseination makes that text very easy , which else seems not a -little surprising . " But for f this new renderings " Jc hoVnh the Messenger / ' the clergy ^ mari ^ elies principally upon he

    Malachi lii . 1 ^ where say s , u ^ falac ^ hi represen ts this ve ry tnesseiiger , the messenger of the coye ^ aht , as being Jehovah , and yet the coming of this jnessenger

    Jehovah % o Jib temple is anntrunced by Jehovah « f hosts § . * If the , prophet did / indeed say What the clergyiti&h here states , it would go fai * towairds proving i Notes and Biscctirscs , Vol . II . p . J 37 . $ M . Repps , vol . 11 . p . 413 .

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    t 6 J . jfilSs Reply to the Clergyman on the Divinity * v ] F Christ .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1808, page 76, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2389/page/20/