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    argument , in proof of Christ ' s being Jehovah , upon " So gross a mis-quotation '' of the texts 4 verily , ' * had I done so ^ I should have been ashamed ever again ta have put pen to paper ; yet all this the clergyman has been guilty . of ,, and more to the same purpose , as we shall see presently . Let it not be thought front what I have said , that I mean ta accede to the charge , that the

    rendering I have proposed , is- indefensible , and not to be elicited from the original : for the justness of it then , I shall appeal from him , and from his supposed society of schoolmasters , to men whose critical knowledge of the ! Greek s neither he nor they are ableutu dispute . What has the learned Mr . Wakefield elicited from the

    original of this passage ? Hjsv translation is ^ •* Who , though in a divine form , did not think of eagerly retaining this , divine likeness . " His schoolmasters I ap ~ prehend , , would be puaraled . to make oust a material difference in

    stfnse , between ' *• was not tenxtct ^ ous of retaining that likeness t& God , " and < Q did not thmk oj eagerly retaining this divine likeness . " . What has the learned Mr . Pierce , ( befoVe referred to ) elicited from it ? His paraphrase is , Who being in the form * or likeness of God , was not eager in retaining that likeness to God . ? In his notes he -says , eager or

    tcnaciousy &c . Dr . Clarke says , u true rendering is as follows , —* Who being in the form of God , did not covet to be ho ,-noured [ was not greedy or fond of , did not look upon it as a prize to be hastily catcht at , of being honoured ] as God . " ' I might go on ; but these authori *

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    That the present rendering however is not the true one , we have the united testimony of some of our ablest critics , as well Trinitarian as Unitarian ; Mr . James Pierce observes , " this" ( that is

    the present rendering ) u is ? so plai nly disagreeable - to the sense of the phrase , that it has been rejected by Er . Schmidiusy

    Grotius , ArchbishopTillotson , Bishop Bull and others / whom no man will suspect of being partial in favour of the notion against which this text is frequently alleged . " il

    As for J . M / s probable true rendering of this latter passage , " says the clergyman , u it would verily puzzle the whole society of schoolmasters to elicit such a meaning from the original * I have vainly endeavouTed to discover the Greek words , which J . M .

    transmutes into woas not tenacious ® f retaining that likeness to God * Woe would have been to me when a school-boy , had I been guilty of any such transmutation . " Inreipty I would say , Woe , , woe would have been to me , if m this con - troversy with t ; he clergyman , I had been guilty of surreptitiously introducing the word " Jehov&hS '

    instead of Elohim , and "the world , " instead of the heavens and , the earthy into the first verse of Genesis ; and then had affirmed from the text so corrupted , u that Moses teaches us , that the world was created by Jehovah . 97 Woe would have been to me if X had

    substituted Jehovah for Adon ^ ( Mai . iii . 1 . ) if I had repeatedly affirmed , contrary to truth , and to the clearest evidence , to those who are able to look into the original , that the former and not the latter was the prophet ' s word , arid had built the whole of the

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    J . MSs Reply to the Clergyman on the Divinity of Christ . 247

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1808, page 247, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2392/page/19/