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    used by the sacred writers , the only legitimate evidence therefore in this case must be derived from their writings . What then have Mreto do with Aristotle ?

    To the charge ( says Dr . EsU Jin , * referring to the otlrer part of the quotation from my letter , To the charge ) of turning adjectives in one language into substantives in another * everv translator must

    plead guilty . ' '— " I find" ( he adds ) " in two places in the New Testament itpd y ^ po vouv ai tvvi ' ujv which 1 have never yet seen translated before the everlasting times ,

    rendered by a substantive , ' before the world began . * " 2 Tim . i * 9 * Tit . i . 2 . Had the Doctor never seen his own discourses , where he tells us , p . 47 , that " The apostle speaks , in 2 Tim .

    i . 9 ) ° f the favour bestowed upon us through Jesus Christ before the everlasting tifoies ? " It is truly marvellous that the Doctor should write discourses , preach and publish them , and yet should have

    never seen them ! Had he never seen the ** Improved Version , " ( which be refers to in his Discourses ) in which the above phrase ii > both the passages is rendered , ** Before the ancient dispensa - tions . ' * u And the substantive "

    ( he adds ) " rendered by an adjective T ' of fe fixcnXej rujy diwvoov * naw to the King eternal . " 1 Tim . i . 17 * But this , according to the Doctor , ought to be rendered , " bow to the King of the ages *' for he contends , that dmy does

    not mean eterntty , but age , and the plural ages . The Tact is , the rendering of these passages in the authorized version is , according tci the Doctor himself , erroneow * , » - . * , ' > ¦ •¦ ¦¦ — - . . ¦ i .. _ ___ . __ .. __ ... »

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    and must be [ so , if there is any truth in . his system . Shall the Doctor then , in justification of his own erroneou translation of Kolasin aednion by the correction of that period , appeal to transla . tions which he himself acknow .

    ledges to be erroneous ? However incredible then such a conduct may be to the Doctor , and although on account of it I may be thought to be unacquainted with the structure of language , I must still maintain that to turn ad *

    jectives in one language into sub * stantives in another , appears to me to be a perversion and not a translation of the words . * After all , I am happy to have the Doctor ' s sanction even in this , for he

    says , p . 354 , " I cannot but ex . press a wish that Mr . Marsom ' s rule were adopted—that when an

    adjective it were always rendered by an adjective , and when a substantive by a substantive . " So much for the Doctor ' s first letter .

    His other letter merits but little attention . It is filled up with reflections , designed to render me contemptible as a controversialist ,

    —with declamations against the system I advocate—with the dreadful consequences which result from it—with heavy complaints of the manner in which I have conducted

    the controversy—and of tb « iw * treatment be has received fromin ^ This was , no doubt , intended $ i a substitute for argument , and to

    relieve him from the disagreeabjfe task of defending himself or of refuting mej for there is notifl this letter any such , attempt , tyy any mode of argumentation

    whatever . Yours * &c . J . MARSOM .

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    (< JS 2 (> Mr . Alar so ni s Reply to Dr . Estliny on Future Punishment .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1814, page 626, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2445/page/38/