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

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    ties are folly sufficient to justify the rendering I propose , ami they are such as no man has any reason to be ashamed of . But now comes ( what the clergyman calls ) " the most portentous part pf J . M . * & criticism ; a part even more portentous than his probable true rendering / 7 upon which he bestows much

    declamation . ' And what is this great and mighty charge ? Why truly , J . M . has written a ^ Ttay ^ a , ^ but the apostle ' s word is ckqitasyjjuo $ To this charge I most readily acknowledge , that having the word cL ^ rtaypaL in my mind , ( which is the word used in all the quotations made from the Greek writers

    by commentators , to illustrate the apostle ' s meaning , except when expressly quoting or referring to the word used by the apostle , ) writing in a hurry , and trusting to memory , without turning to the passage , I did inadvertently write the one for the other .

    But let us see what all this de * clamation comes to . Are these words as dissimilar in appearance , in sound , and in sense , as the words Elohi ? n and Jehovah , and Adon and Jehovah , which the

    clergyman writes the one for the other ? Or do they so affect the reasoning and argument ? . The clergyman says indeed , that the tvords otC 7 ? ctyu , x , and ^ o ^ have diffe rent

    oc ^ ifcc y a meaning . But upon what authority ? X ) oes he prove it by comparing this passage , with other passages in the New Testament , where either of the words occurs ? That

    was impossible ; for neither of tbvjn occurs in any other passage pi those writings .

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    Mr ; Pierce says * , " I do not find any instance produced of agrtctyuLGz . as ever used by any author but St . Paul , in this place , and such as have ^ taken occasion to treat of it : and' so no argument can be brought to confirm any interpretation from the express use of the word . But if OLgTtoLypGL be ^ ynonimous to oiC 7 t ( xyi ^ og as ^ oLitli a' ^ x ' ^ is to fia TtlL < r [ jj 0 S ) < pufli ( r' ( j . oc to < p ufli ( r [ j , o $ x [ jiiyfAcx , to { MytA 0 $ 9 ayvKrpa . to ayviGwog , and many others of the

    like nature , the proper meaning of it seems to be a prey or booty % which is of a middle sense , and may be either just or unjust . And so it is used by Josephus , Antiq . lib . xi . c . 5 , Hence because a prey or booty , is what persons readily embrace , and eagerly retain , as a thing of which they count it an advantage to be pos * sessed ; agreeably to this notion in all the passages produced out of Heliodorus * where this word

    is used , it seems plainly to denote sl fortuitous advantage , or as we say , a lucky hit put into a per . son ' s hands , and not to be let slip or parted with . " If then , as Pierce and Dr . Whitby , ( who has collected the passages from

    Heliodorus ) suppose , the words OL ^ itQLy ^ oL and oc ^ itc ^ y ^ og are synonmious , the inadvertently writing the former for the latter , has neither affected the sense of the passage , npr weakened the force or' the argument . After all , I dp not assert that a ^ itGc yfxct is the apostle ' s word . I merely say f , the word a ^ itccy ^

    does not mean robhtry-, but a prize . * The clergyman . , saysj , that * it signifies prey or booty ?

    • In loc . M f M . Repos . vol . ii p 337 . ^ . Rcp os . vol . ii . p . 520 ,

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1808, page 248, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2392/page/20/