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    cause they believe that the evangelical historian wrote from the best information , and that he means what his words properly express .

    Dr . Magee has with his usual politeness corrected a slip of the pen , or an error of the press , respecting Ephn'm th , e Syrian , who was in truth a writer of the fourth century , and not of the sixth , as it is misstated in the Introduction

    to the Improved Version . The Editors will , no doubt , avail themselves of his friendly hint in their next edition . The mistake was indeed obvious to every child in ecclesiastical history .

    6 . In p . 17 , Dr . Magee cavils at the translation and the interpretation given in the Improved Version of the first v < rses in the Gospel of John ; but though he has shown his good-will to find fault , he has also shown his good-sense

    In not presuming to assert , thai the original will not bear the sense annexed by the editors . And in particular , he will not venture to deny , that the almost uniform

    sense of the phrase •* in the beginning , " or * from the beginning , " in John ' s writings , is the beginning of our Lord ' s ministry ; and that the word ( zy&velo ) which the common version renders made - and the

    Improved Version , done , never signifies to create . All that the learned Professor ventures to do in this case , is to use contemptuous and insulting language , which is always at hand , and never fails to supply a defect of argument .

    7 . In p . 19 , the learned Professor strains hard to be very severe upon Mr . Lindsey and the editors of the Improved Version , for their observations upon the prayer of Stephen , addressed to Jesus , whom

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    he then saw either in reality or in vision . Mr . Lindsey ' s observation is , that fc 4 Stephen calls him the Son of Man ( i r . a human being ) in bis highest state of exaltation , '"

    which Dr . Magee will not deny . The editors remark - that " this address * of Stephen to Jesus when he actually saw him , does not auihoiise us to off ; r prayers to him , now he is invisible . ' * And surel y it is sufficiently obvious , that it may be rational and proper to converse with and ask favours of a

    friend who is present , when it would argue folly and insanity to talk to him in the same manner if he is manv miles distant , out of sight and out of hearing . And yet the learned Professor makes a

    mighty mystery of this plain argument , and professes great alarm about it , as though it led directly to popery , to idolatry , and to the denial of religious homage to every

    invisible being , without excepting the Invisible , Supreme , Omnipresent and Omnipotent God ; Is it possible that he can be serious in this representation ?

    8 . Dr . Magee , having sufficiently vented his indignation against the editors of the Improved Version , next points his artillery at the late learned and excellent

    Gilbert Wakefield , who , too partial to the Ethiopia version , upon the authority of that version , retains the word God in Acts xx , 28 . in opposition to tht ; uniform testimony of the best manuscripts and' versions , which read Lord

    Mr . Wakefield , however , supports the reading adopted by the public version , fct the church of God ,, which be purchased with his own blood , " and explains the meaning to be , the blood ot hi * Son . Dr . Magee say * of Mr *

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    £# 6 Reply to Dr . Magee . — To the Inquirers after Christian Truth

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1813, page 496, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2431/page/8/