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    pie and other nations to bias , pheme God and his hol y law . " How clearly and how appositely do these extraordinary facts , now first brought to light by the profound researches of the learned Theologus , illustrate the obscure passages in St . Paul ' s Epistle to the Roman church ! especially as it is so very ic remarkable that Paul expostulates with a leading man in the church at Rome , who ^ ppeet rs to have committed these

    very crimes . Nay , he even uses the very expression , * Thou callest thyself a Jew / ' Can any . evidence be more decisive ? It is true , the apostle' wrote twenty

    years afterwards : but what is that in the estimation of a deep scholar ? How justly then does the learned Theologus , upon the merit of these marvellous

    discoveries , which , as he modestly tells us , are byit a few instances of the great Jight which may be made to reflect upon the sacred pages , "

    po doubt from his own profound researches—take precedence of all former critics and expositors . And with what becoming solemnity does he advance his novel and

    recondite canon of criticism for the benefit of all future interpreters of Scripture , viz . "'first to come to the knowledge of facts ; and then to examine the contents of the

    New Testament in reference to these facts . '' I cannot but congratulate the Christian world upon the grand improvement ? which may hereafter be expected , in

    illustration of the Scripture by future expositors , if they have the wisdom \ o follow this extraordinary rule of interpretation , so lately jnvented , and with such kind condescension revealed by the learned ^ heologus .

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    Avaunt ! ye Lockes and ye Lardners , ye Taylors and ye Newcomes ; ye pigmies in learning , ye babes in criticism , ye embryos in theology , hide your diminished heads . Simple and well-meaning

    expounders of the holy text , ye weakly contented yourselves with acquiring some tolerable familiarity with scripture phraseology , and with spelling out what little was to be known of the actual

    state of the churches to which the epistles were addressed . Never did it occur to yoqr dull under . * standings , what the ? superior genius of the learned Theologus has so distinctly made out , that , in

    order to explain the Epistles of Paul , it is indispensably requisite to rake into the manners and the vices of the princes and favourites , the pimps and parasites , the adulterers and adulteresses of the

    imperial court . Go , reverend Greybeards , go to the school of the learned Theologus ; sit at his feet , and hear wisdom . Unlucky editors of the Improved Version J In evil hour Jiave ye attracted the notice , and incurred the censure of the learned

    Theologus . Retire in haste from the blaze of his critical lightening , lest ye be consumed in a moment . Hang down your unlearned heads in silence and in shame . Say not —• leave wiser men and more impart

    tial judges to say—thou art beside thyself , most learned Theologus , Duty and honour require of you to take a different course . Come forth , then , if yo" dare , and prove if you can , that the mild , the equitable Tiberius , that venerable nursing father of the infant church , did not commence the first imperial persecution , now first made known by the learned

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    388 Strictures on the Critiques of Theologu * .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1810, page 388, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2407/page/12/