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    246 J . M . ' s Reply to the Clergyman on the Divinity of Christ .

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    but this passage utterly fails him , for , conscious that equally , is not the true rendering of the word icrct , he ^ immediately corrects it by adding , ** or as the gods * He then gives another translation of the passage in Homer , and again adds the same absurd

    explanation of the word as , which I have before noticed . His words are , " they are so honoured as to be placed on the same footing as the gods . " Did Homer when he used the terms cc honoured as the

    gods , " mean to say that they really were gods ? Surely no one will contend for such a construction of his words ; how then will that citation prove that , when the Apostle applies the same terms to Jesus Christ , he meant to assert that he was " God , equal with God the Father . "

    u opposition to J . M . " says the clergyman , " I will , venture to maintain that our present translation , is the right one . " And yet when he professedly gives us what he calls . " the exact literal

    translation of the passage" it differs from the present translation , not only in the instance above noticed , but also in other respects . Now two different translations of the same words , cannot both be right .

    I m # ke use of three arguments ^ , to prove that the rendering of this passage in the common translation , is not the true one ; of those arguments , he has not cited , or attempted to refute one single sentence . What he has said about them , I shall leave the reader to compare with the arguments themselves

    f M . Repos . vol . ii . p . 237 *

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    Testament j icri ^ ers making this assertion 6 n this single passage ; aticl y ^ t , however dogmatically peremptory my assertion to the contrary ma ^ be , he is obliged to admit its truth , for when he gives lis his rendering of the passage , having rendered this clause ' * did

    not account the being equal with God , " he immediately , in a parenthesis , explains away the allimportant word equal ) by rendering it as , the being equal with God , or the being as God , " « c The Apostle , " he adds , uses the word i < rx as , adverbially . "

    If then it is used here adverbially , it cannot with propriety be rendered equal . That ktoc does not mean equal . Dr . Whitby has shewn * , even'when professedly opposing the Socinian sense of the text , and this he does by referring to a great number of texts , where the word occurs . In many

    of these passages it is rendered as , and in some like ; but never equal . But the clergyman , to make as God come as near as he can in sence to equal with God , fills up the rest of his parenthesis with , ** viz . on the same footing as God . " Let any one turn to the ^ passages Dr . Whitby has collected , and give the word as , in them , this explanation , and then judge whether it will not " produce

    downright nonsense . " To give one instance out of many , Job . x . 10 . i ( Hast thou not curdled me icra rvgco u upon the same footing as cheese . " To prove that icra , means equal , he cites a passage from Homer , respecting Castor and Pollux which he renders , " They have obtained honour equally with the gods ;"

    * In loc .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1808, page 246, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2392/page/18/