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    * For , in the first place , punctuation is discretionary : MSS . and versions may here assist and guide , but cannot bind us . Secondly , that xoclol cdpnoL means the descent

    of Christ as 5 \ Jew , is rendered in the highest degree probable , if not certain , by the occurrence of the same phrase in Rom . iv . 1 . 1 Cor , x . 18 . And , thirdly , it is very much in Paul's manner to utter a devout apostrophe , after

    speaking of Jesus and the gospel , e . g . 2 Cor . i . 3 . Eph . i . 3 . To make the second clause of

    John xii . 27 » interrogative , the reviewer seems to think inconsistent with the true and natural princi pies of taste . I confess that 1 am of quite a different opinion ; though on a subject of mere taste I shall not now enter into a

    controversy . It cannot be unknown to scriptural students , that Grothis proposed to read the clause as a question ; and Grotius was a man of no common taste in criticism and writing * The E . R . next examines the

    mode adopted in the I . V . of translating the Jewish idioms and other peculiar terms and expressions of the N . T , And he remarks , that the editors , in the note by which they justify their rendering of John i . 1 . appear to glance with a wishful eye at a

    violent conjecture of Sam , Crellius . Then , for a purpose sufficiently obvious , he informs us , that this Crellius was a Socinian , and a leader of that party , but that , at the end of his life , he made a recantation of their reli-

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    gious principles . I suspected the accuracy of this account , at the moment of my seeing it ; as I knew that there are no traces of the story in Bock , * who , yet , is far from being deficient in zeal for orthodoxy . Your readers ars indebted to Dr . Toulmin for ena * bling them to ascertain the fact . t

    That want of discrimination , Sir , with which the E . R . and some kindred writers apply the epithet Socinian , does them little honour . Dr . Adam Clarke , for

    example , in his Bibliographical Dictionary , a work that , consi - dering the circumstances under which it was executed , is more to be admired for the industry which it denotes and the mass of

    intelligence which it contains , than censured for its defects , has committed a strange mistake in the use of this very word . Describing Harwood ' s edition of the N . T *

    in Greek , he says of it , < c a variety of readings are received ojr rejected , according as they favour or oppose the Socinian doctrine , which the doctor religiously believed to be the truth ^ 'f Novr it so happens , that Harwood was

    an avowed Arian , and published a pamphlet expressly in defence of the pre-existence of Jesus Christ ! This part of his history , it is true , might not be known to Dr . Adam Clarke ; but then he should not have yentured on so confident a declaration . 4 < You are not

    allowed , " observes Ogden , to be mistaken , 7 \ vhen you take upon you to find fault . "j | « What , " asks the E < R . " but

    * Hist . Antitrinit . torn . i . p , x . ( l ^ i p « C , 1774 . ) t Mon . Rep . vol . v , pp . so , &c , $ Vol . * i , p . I $ 9 » I Sermons , ( 4 th ed # ) p . 4 ^ 9 *

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    Estimate of Strictures on the Improved Versio * . —Letter 4 . 391

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1810, page 391, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2407/page/15/