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    ffi £± *> r [ sj be the titje reading in l&is plaoc - All the old versions i&ve itj qui or quad . And all the aacieat fathers , though the copies © f many of them have it ftozv in tire lest itself [< &s 6 $ y Deus r ] yet from the tenour of their comments

    upon it , and from their never citing it in the Arian controversy , ifc . appears they always read it qui * xt quad ; till the time of Macedonian under the Emperor Ana&tasites in the b eg inning of the sixth . century-:- ' * and who cites Dr . Mill as saying , " No one that

    I kuowj of all the Catholic fatfcers ,. who professedly collected all the texts of scripture in -proof of Christ * s divinity , ever alledge tih $ s text , before the year 38 O . Gregory Nyssen first of all , &c . " Ka& the clergyman / never seen l > r » Benson on the passage , or Sir Isaac Newton ' : ? letter , before refers

    xecf to ? . If he ha ? hot seen any of them , it appears that he knows nothing about the' controversy . But the clergyman objects to if and 6 as the true reading , " inas-much , ' ' he says , " as they alike

    produce nonsense . ** In support of the proposed reading , I gave the translation of the passage by that learned and laborious critic , Mr . Gilbert Wakefielrf . Has he

    *• produced grammatical nonsense ? " The clergyman has not ventured to charge him with it , or to allude to that translation , though he had it before him .

    But he says , " That a mystery ¦ was seen of angels , and received tip into glory , is to my own comprehension down-right nonsense . " Mr . Wakefield ' a rendering oif the

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    two clauses is , -. Seen . by themes * sengers ( that is , apostles , ) taken up with glory . " I > r » Benson renders the latter clause , " Wa& gloriously received , i . e , had a glorious spread and receptionV Is this i ; downright nonsense ?*?

    or will the clergyman charge the apostle John with ** downright nonsense , " when he says in v his own name and in that of the rest of the apostles , " That which was from the beginning , which , we have heard , which we have seen with our eyes ) which we have looked upoTtj and our hands have handled

    of the word of life ; for the life was manifested ^ and we have seen it . " Or , is it " downright nonsense xy to say , that a mystery " was taken up with gloryj " . or " was gloriously received ? ** But as the clergyman re , -te thf * f > roof of the true reading upon the sense or nonsense which the different readings will produce , let ys see what sense the reading he contends for will produce . " God ' * he

    says , " was seen of the messen * gers / ' What could the apostle refer to in this assertion ? J > id h $ mean to contradict the apostle John , who says , "No man ( a

    or the apostle Paul s own assertion in this very epistle , where , speaking of God , he says , Who only hath immortallitjr—whom no maty hath seen , or can see ? % ** Ag * i n » " God was preached unto the Gentiles . " Was the mission of

    the apostles to preach God , or to preach the mysterty of godliness ? ^ he whole New Testament will y cide , that it was the latter ana

    * la Ic $ a » Notes . f Chap , i i % - t Chap , vi , 16 .

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    1 $ 6 J * MSs Reply to the Clergyman on the Divinity of ^ CKrist ^

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1808, page 136, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2390/page/16/