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    REVIEW. " Still pleased td praise, Vet not afraid to blame."—Pope.

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    Art . I . —A New Version of the First Three Chapters of Genesis $ accompanied with Dissertations illustrative of the Creation , the Fall of Man , the Principle ofJEvil , and the Plagues of Egypt * To which are annexed Strictures on Mr . Bellamy ' s Translation . By Esseims - 8 vo . pp . 168 . Hunter . 1819 . 6 * .

    THIS work is the acknowledged productionof Dr . John Jones , to whom the public are under great obligations for his learned and ingenious publications on the Sacred Writings

    and the early history of the church . * Like all his works , it is ingenious and , in many particulars , original , and therefore interesting even where it is not convincing . Our object is less to criticise it than to make our readers

    acquainted , and as far as we can , in * We put down Dr . Jones's theological publications in the order in which they appeared : 1 . A Developement of Remarkable Events , calculated to restore the Christian Religion to its Original Purity ,

    and to repel the Objections of Unbelievers . 2 vols . 8 vo . 1800 . 2 . The Epistle of Paul to the Romans analysed , from a Developement of those Circumstances in the Roman Church , by which it was occasioned . 8 vo . 1801 . 3 . Illustrations

    of the Four Gospels , founded on Circumstances peculiar to our Lord and the Evangelists . 8 vo . 1808 . 4 . Ecclesiastical Researches ; or Philo and Josephus proved to be Historians and Apologists of Christ , and of his Followers , and of the Gospel . 8 vo . 1812 . 5 . Sequel to Ecclesiastical Researches , in which the Origin of the

    Introductory Chapters of Matthew and Luke is brought to light from Josepjius , and in which the -peculiar articles of the Orthodox Faith are traced to the System of the Gnostics , who opposed the Gospel in the Days of Christ and his Apostles . 8 vo . 1813 . —The title of another volume just published by this indefatigable author will be found in our last of Books . —

    Besides these contributions to sacred learning , Dr . Jones is the author of a Latin Grammar , a Latin Vocabulary on a new Plan , and a Greek Grammar , which have obtained considerable popularity

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    the author ' s own language , with its principal features . In his t € New Version , " the author translates # > pn expanse , and not as in the common version , firmament , observing that it signifies mere space or extension . He says ,

    ' * The terms by which the firmament is expressed in Greek and Latin , and in many modern tongues , exhibit a remarkable instance of the influence of philosophical opinion on language . Early in the second century , an Egyptian philosopher taught that the firmament or heavens consisted of solid orbs , each star being

    supposed to be fixed m a solid transparent sphere , like crystal . This notion was doubtless not new : it prevailed in Egypt ages before , though from Ptolemy , who , with some additions and modifications , no doubt first systematically taught it , it went by the name of the Ptolemaic system . It is from the prevalence of this

    opinion , that ^ Boeto ^ a , in Greek , and firmament in Latin , came to be applied to the heavens , though these nouns imply something firm and solid . Hence too the epithets ycpecT £ oo ^ f y / xKw ^ ar ^ q , &c . are

    used by Homer and other poets to characterize the heavens . Moses , on the other hand , has employed a term which denotes mere expansion or extension ; and this circumstance shews , either that

    he was untainted with the vain theories of the Egyptians , or , which is more probable , that he lived in an age antecedent to them . The seventy translators thought it wiser to follow the Egyptians than their lawgiver in this respect . They wrote their translation in Egypt , and in conformity to the prejudices of that people , used

    S-epeajftot , which signifies a solid mass . This warrants us in concluding that the system , which in a ^ ter days was taught by Ptolemy , prevailed in Egypt before the authors of the Septuagint . "—Pp * i > > Note . Dr . Jones renders Gen . i . 1 > " *

    the beginning God planned the heavens and the earth , " and Gen . 3 # *^ he rested from all th # work which God planned to be produced" , Moses , M thinks , intended ky this language to set aside the false notions of those w&o maintained that tbe heavens either naa no beginning , or began to exist dv natural causes . Two words ara usea

    Review. " Still Pleased Td Praise, Vet Not Afraid To Blame."—Pope.

    REVIEW . " Still pleased td praise , Vet not afraid to blame . "—Pope .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1820, page 230, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2487/page/38/