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    appears to take hi the next word b& 9 { God , } and does not bjf atrf means convey a correct idea of the words as they atpresent stand in the Hebrew text . Dtfdson ., in the Notes subjoined to his ** New Translation of Isaiah "

    has proposed a very ingenious gmendation of the drigin&I , by means of which he has brought the Hebrew ta a correspondence with the Greek ; but , instead of adopting his conjecture , I shall here take the liberty of proposing- one which , as far as I know , is

    entirely new , and which appears to me to explain the difficulty upon a much simpler principle . AH the remaining repithets in this prophecy , it will be observed , are compound expressions ; from which I infer that the words under consideration r were

    originally joined together in grammatical construction , and formed likewise a compound expression , similar to that which is applied to the Deity ia Isaiah , xxviii . 2 y , "This also cometli from the Lord of hosts , who is

    i&onderful in counsel ( nvjf ** 7 £ > n ) and excellent in working . " Now , this very expression may be obtained in the case before us , by simply changins ; YV * ( counsellor ) into ntV ( conn *

    selj ; a change which is sanctioned by the introduction of the word pov ^ q into the Septuagint Version , and one which has assuredly taken place in JProv . xi . 14 , where the words now rendered " multitude of counsellors "

    ought , agreeably to the rendering of the Septuagint , to have been u rau « h counsel . " With this slight alteration , the passage before us will stand thus , * ' His name shall be called Wonderful in Counsel" &c . : and I do not see

    that the application of this epithet to the Deity , in the passage above quoted , can in the slightest degree affect any interpretation of the prophecy founded upon Unitarian principles ^ whether it be supposed to relate to Jesus

    Christ , or King Hezekiah ; because in that passage the word &bB 9 ( Won * derful ^) is preceded by the emphatic n , whereas in the present case it is omitted , a distinction which is no less remarkable than it is decisive and

    satisfactory . The next title will require a more particular consideration . The words tnu * sla > ted « the Mighty God ? ' havs been regarded by ? many aa exclusively applicable to Jesus GUrist ^ and upon

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    these , therefore , the orthodox Itiy pe- ^ culiir stress ; but with what propriety will bb seen hereafter * It is a remarkable fact that the word V « is nottranslated God in any of the Greek Versions * The Seventy either do not

    translate it all , or render it , as » have already seen , by the term &yyeXo <;' ( Messenger ); and Aquila , Symtna * chus and Theodotion , as . appears froEor the fragments of Origen ' s Hexapla ; , edited by Montfaucon , ( Vol . II . p . 404 , ) agree in translating * nn : t b& , u ? % v $ o <; and Suyaro ^ , or hvvez ^^ ( strong

    and mighty , } and in" this respect follow the Alexandrine copy of the Sep- * tuagiat * But Dr . Owen , in his " Inquiry into the present State of the Septuagint Version of the Old

    Testament" says , ( p . 50 , ) that - ¦ ** the Jews expunged the original translation very early out of some copies , and , substituted in its place what we now read in the Vatican , with a view ' to extort out of the bands of Christians tf > ne of

    the principal arguments for the divinity of Christ . " Now , all tliis , I can safely take upon myself to say , is mere gratuitous assertion , unsupported by a single atom of evidence , or any thing in the shape of evidence .

    No vestige of the word God now remains in anv of the Greek Versions . and all Dr . Owen ' s attempts to prove that it was ever found in them , pro * ceed upon the most groundless and unwarranted assumptions . Whether this word was contained in . the

    original Hebrew text is another and a totally distinct question ; but , in the name of all that is charitable and Christian , let us not attempt to fix an unmerited stigma like this upon the poor Jews , in addition to the

    calumnies which are already so profusely heaped upon them * " Let us accuse and convict them , when we have sufficient evidence against them ; but let us not make such heavy charges on fanciful conjecture only " ( Dodson ' s Notes on Isaiah , p , 209- ) We need not fear , however , to take the Hebrew tex ; t as we now find it , and still apply the prophecy to a King Hezekiab . i—There are four passages iu the Old

    Testament , and I believe four only * in which these words are predicated of God ; Isa . x . 21 > Jer . ^ cxxii ^ 18 , Deut . x ;; 17 , and Nehem ^ ix . i 32 . > But three of these cauhardly be considered cases in poin ti the word bK ; ( God , ) hfeing iit

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    Mr . W 4 xlkce s Remarks on Isaiah ixC 6 ;? fi * & §;

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1824, page 95, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2521/page/31/