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    the pernicious spirit of party and preconceived opinion can have led the modern adversaries of the deity of Christ to reject , inthe face of abundant evidence , a rule

    of Greek . construction , which , applied to the N . T . furnishes some cogent testimonies to that doctrine }> 9 He means , of course , the canon so strenuously contended for by Granvitle Sharpe , and ,

    I ' musthave permission to add , so thoroughly invalidated by Gregory Blunt * Let him be assured , that they who reject it have a rational persuasion of it ^ fa lsehood , as a principle of criticism . The discussion is in abler hands than

    the E . R / s or mine ; and in those hands I choose to leave it * He cites Philip * , ii . 6 . as a testimony to the deity of Christ ; the force of which testimony lie states to lie in the language existing

    in the form of God , " compared with the subsequent clause , " taking the form of a servant / ' u If the former , " he argues , be denied to attribute to our Lord real

    and proper divinity , it must , in consistency , beheld , that he had no real or proper humanity , as was taught by the Docetae . " But , surely , it would be fairer and more correct to reason as follows :

    " If the form of a servant da not imply , as it evidently does not , literal servitude , neither does the form of God imply literal and es- * sential deity . ' * The clauses

    exp lain each other ; and a mutual comparison ot thera vindicates the translation and interpretation of the editors of the I , V , It is not between deity and humanity , but

    between the complete possession of divinely-communicated powers ,-and the greatest personal self-denial and poverty , that the apostle draws a contrast .

    Concerning the true rendering of Ileb . i . 8 . I am far from being decided ; although I perceive that Sykes , a sound Greek scholar , favours the translation on which the critic animadverts . Granting

    that the vocative and not the nominative case should be employed , it will . remain for the E . R . to show , that absolute and supreme divinity is here attributed to Je' sus ** .

    It is at least so doubtful whether the mariners who are mentioned in Matt . xiv . 33 . were believers in the messiahship of our Lord , that the use of the

    indefinite article , by the editors of the I . V . in that passage , ought , I think , to be commended * But I subscribe to some following

    observations of the re viewer , particularly \ yith regard to Rom . i . 20 . Cordially as I respect the memory of Mr . Lindsey , 1 confess that , in this text , I ( cannot assent to the substitution of the word providence for deity .

    The deviations from the common translation of wtung ' are not peculiar to , the I . V .: they arc chargeable , in-the . first instance , upon New come . And in Mark

    viii . 32 . the rendering which the Er 11 . requires is marked in tho margin . For a vindication of the translation respectively of iflw-% / vw and stfLxocXeopoti , I must refer , Sir , to some former pages of your Repository . f

    . 0 , ¦ Ps . lxxxii . 6 , Jo hn x . 34 * f Mon , Rep , vol . iv , a 66 , &c . ftt aoy > % J \ % $ SSr 5 S 7 *

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    . 892 Estimate of Strictures on the Improved Version . —Letter 4 ,,

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1810, page 392, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2407/page/16/