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      ¦ -.-. CJUTKStlM OUT JUJMStES 2 siV . 4 * 5 . ' - ' " . ¦ i . ¦ . ' . • * • v * ' ^^^^' VvMVflBMBMHhM ^^^ v ' ' ¦ ¦ ' ¦ ' To theEdito * Iof * the iftf&nHly Repository .

      l * ermit me to solicit the atten ^ tion of your readers to a remark long ago maqlq on a part of the Qlilfestament history , which has teen repeatedly held up to ridicule by unbeliever ^ , and which is indeed liable to very serious objections , vjz . Judges xv . 4 , 5 . It is that the

      word we render t " foxe $ , if one letter only be . left out , signifies * Tiandfuls . " ( As in Ezek . xiii . 19 , " handfuK of barley . " ) If then the proper meaning of the passage is ^ that Ci Sampson went and took three hundred handfuls ( or sheaves ) of corn , ami laid them end to end ,

      and put a firebrand in the midst between two sheaf-ends , and ( having placed them in such < directions as to reach the standing corn of the Philistines ) set the

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      CORRECTED TRANSLATION OF ACTS VIII / I . XXTtr 20 ^ ; i For the Monthly Repositqrtf .

      The utility of the Syriac version of the New Testament , in an examination of tjje receive ^ text and translation , has frequently

      been noticed ^ and , in aome instances , pointed out . I do not recollect , however , that any commentator or critic has adduced the following example , which occurred to me lately , in the course

      © f Hiy reading . Acts viii . 1 . **¦ And Saul was consenting wito his death . yy King James ' s translators . " Noxo Saut was gMdly consenting unto his death . " Wakefi * M .. " c N ~ qw Saul consented *> hh death . " Newcome .

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      But in the Syriac translation Cja Schaaf ' s edition of which , by t& ? way , the verse is placed , as i ) t should be , at the end of the pre *

      ceding chapter , ) the vvord otvotipeffBl is appropriately rendtere . d by onf to which' the Latin , cazfas com > sponds . Since , therefore , the historian , by his selection of th # term , plainly meant to etigniat ^ e the death of Ste . phen as a violent if not an unlawful aqt , 1 woiiW propose to fcra&slate the cla ^ P

      thus : Noio Saul willingly coticurr ^ in putting him to death } *>* " ) $ killing him /' * And ,, ( fee f * 0 correction should be made wi

      Acts xxii . 20 . March 11 1 SK ) 8 *

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      brands pn fire ; ' ^ it will not He open 4 o the scoffs of itafidels ; nor will the friends of Divine ilevelation need to jtake any farther pains in answering such objections ashow did Sampson collect so many as three hundred foxes in the *

      course of a night ? - —or , how did he secure them till he had fbted and lighted his fire-brandy P- ^ or , how did h £ guide tjiern , circumstanced as they were , to the

      standing corn of the Philistines ? Perhaps , Sir , to some of yoiir hurnW ous readers these thoughts niay be new , and may be serviceable in obviating difficulties - which it may not otherwise be ^ easy td resolve * I am , SiiTj A CONSTANT KEADEft , ¦• ••¦ - , « < --1 si \ \ t , ¦ ¦ ¦¦ ; ¦ . ¦ ¦ ^ - ¦ ; . j

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    • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1808, page 152, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2390/page/32/