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    of Ecclesiasticus , and see whether there is not some resemblance ,, Eccl . iv . 30 : ! £ vvTy ) pyjcrov Hctipov KCU $ v \< x , % xi ctiro tfovyjp 3 o Eph . V . 16 : E , % a . yOf ( x , KofJ < £ vo& rov Koupov in dt ypspai itovr ^ pai euri o

    jlvvrrjpEWo ** Generatim omsie studium inientum et curara circa aliquid significat . " Schleusn . in verb . Ohservo" Scapula , &c . E % aryopGiZ u ) . Noo S 9 *< Toto animo rei alicuf deditus sum . Solicite aliquid et caute observo prouti facere solent mercatores . " Schleusn * in verb .

    EccL iv . 20 : " Observe the circum * stances in which you are placed , and beware of evil . ' * Ephes . v . \ 59 16 , " See then that ye walk circumspectly—paying attention to the circumstances in which

    you are placed * because the days are evil . ' * Prudently regarding in your conduct towards the Gentiles , your dangerous situation s living in evil , i . e * violent and persecuting times . Compare Locke ' s' note already given .

    If appears to me that the apostle ' s mode of expression has been influenced by the words of the son of Siracb , which he had in his mind , and that his meaning is illustrated by attention to them .

    According to the explanation I have given of Eph « v . 16 , and Coloss , iv . 5 , we may compare with them the true reading of Rom . xii . 1 \ 9 6 € rev xaiptv QQV \ evoyre $ " " Acting with a regard to the peculiar circumstances of the

    time in which you live . " The apostle ' s meaning in all of them is the same , and it is rather curious that they should all of them have been obscured to the generality of readers , by a false reading or a false interpretation . W . Ho iiiiii

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    tarians ^ pho' are ignorantly . or caliimniously Accused of practising on the texts of Scripture in order to make them conform with a pre-conceived system ^ a charge which may be re torted on their adversaries , should be particularly jealous of these needless

    interferences , as they might tend to afford a colour for the imputation of wanton and whimsical tampering with the passages of holy writ . These observations , Sir , have a reference to Dr . Alexander ' s novel , and , as I think , most needless exposition of Phil . ii .

    5—r , inserted in your number for October [ XII . 614—6 l ?] . The explanations of this passage by Dr Pricey by Mr . Lindsey , and other eminent biblical critics , are so entirely

    consistent with the Greek idiom , and with the tenor of Scripture , that , < g priori * any new sense would appear wholly uncalled for , and the sense proposed seems to me not only lame but even puerile .

    « Though in the form of God , " Is thought to allude to " -the transfiguration on the mount where he ( Jesus ) assumed a divine or luminous , or supernaturally splendid appearance , his face shining as the sun , and his raiment becoming white as snow . *' The words rendered in the

    common version * ' thought it not robbery to be equal with God , " are said to be literally translateable by the expressions thought not of the robbery of being equal with God $ " and this is gratuitously supposed to refer to the accusation of the Jews that Jesus 6 i made himself equal to God . "

    NowP Sir , I must first contest the proposition that Jesus of himself &s ~ sumed a supernaturally splendid appearance , or that this appearance was indicative of any thing properly divine in the person off Jesus , which it would seem from the phrase assumed is in the idea of the writer . Possibly , although

    a Unitarian in worship , he may adhere to the Gnostic notion qf the pre-ex « istence of Christ , for such , though somewhat modified , is the Avian hy * pothesis * It appears from the gospel narrative , that a bright cloud overshadowed them , " and that a voice was heard out of the clou $ bearing witness that Jesus was " the beloved son of God . " This cloud was probably the Shekinaft , or cloud of glory which

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    Bihlickl Criiicismo ^ On Ovo Alexander ' s Exposition &fPMk ii . 5—» 1 L 47

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    ¦ iiaapn On Dr . Alexander ' s Exposition of PML ii . 5—11 . Sir , Dec . 21 , 1817 .

    IF capricious and unnecessary refinements of explication are to be deprecated with regard to the profane authors of antiquity , such innovations must be acknowledged to be still more objectionable when the experiment is &nade upon the sacred writers . Uni-* QriesbacVs reading * . Ed .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1818, page 47, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2472/page/47/