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      that what he seems to think a very great difficulty , has been fully considered by persons who have written most ably on the subject

      of the Resurrection of Jesus ; ( particularly by the author of " The Trial of the Witnesses , " and by the late Dr . Chandler , in his piece entitled , " The Witnesses of the Resurrection of Jesus Christ re-

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      To the Editor of the MR . EDITOR , In your Repository , vol . iv . p . 474 . request is made by A . B .

      in a letter dated Chatham , Aug . 19 * 1809 * that some correspondent would be $ 0 good as to reconcile cur Lord ' s explanation of the sign of the prophet Jonah , that the Son of Man would be

      three days and three nights in the heart of the earth , with the known feet of his having lain in the grave nly two nights and one day . '

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      VR . MARSOM ON THE RENDERING OF U HADES / IN THE IMPROVED VERSION .

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      To the Editor of the Monthly Repository

      Jan . 29 , 1810 . A considerable degree of perplexity in understanding the New Testament , is occasioned by our

      translators frequently rendering the same Greek word by English ivords of very different signification . The word hades is by them rendered sometimes hell and

      sometimes the graVe . 1 he authors of the Improved Version have rejected the former of these -renderings ; yet , nevertheless , instead

      ? The above arc ill tlic passages ia which the word occurs in the New Tctumeat . ,

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      Monthly Repository . A correspondent informs A . B . that he will find the matter admirably reconciled in a pamphlet published in 1802 , -entitled ,. " An Essay on the Sign of the Prophet

      Jonah , intended to remove a Deistical Objection concerning the Time of our Saviour ' s Burial , &c . By Isaac James , tutor in the Baptist academy , Bristol . "—I believe it may be had of Button , in Paternoster Row * B . C .

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      of lessening the difficulty occasioned by such a mode of translation , they have increased it twofold . In Mat . xvi . 18 . they have rendered it denth ^ which it certainly never means . In Luke xvi . 23 . the unseen Mate , which does

      not convey any determinate idea In Rev . vi . 8 . and xx . 13 , 14 * they retain the word hades , which , to an English reader , is perfectly unintelligible . In Mat . xi , 23 Luke x . 15 . Acts ii . 27 , 31 . 1 Cor . xv . 55 . and Rev . i . 18 . *

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      13 * The Sign of the Prophet Jonah

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      examined , ani their Testimony proved entirely consistent ; " ) and that such full and satisfactory answers have been given to it as

      may justly occasion some surprize that any serious stress should now be laid upon it . I am , Sir , Your s sincerely , J . T- E .

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      THE SIGN OF THE PROPHET JONAH .

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    • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1810, page 134, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2402/page/30/