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      Art . I . — -An Inquiry into the Sense in which our Saviour Jesus Christ is declared by St . Paul to be the Son of God , in Two Sermons , preached before the University of Oxford . ' To ivhich are added , Observations on some Passages in Mr . Belsham ' s f ( Translation and

      Exposition of the Epistles of Paul , the Apostle . " By John Hume Spry , M . A ., * of Oriel College , Minister of Christ Church , Birmingham / f and one of the University select Preachers for the Year 1824 .

      Oxford , at the University Press . Sold in London , by Messrs . Rivington , and by Hatchard . 1824 , 8 vo . pp . 162 .

      X ) destroy Mr . Belsham ' s credit , JL as a scriptural critic and interpreter , is , obviously , the aim of the writer of this pamphlet : let it then be considered how far he has , in the present undertaking " , made good bis

      own . He discourses from Acts ix . 20 [ "And straightway he preached Christ in the synagogues , that he is the Son of God" ] : yet , in quoting the former clause of the passage , he adopts a corrupt reading , and afterwards hazards a defective observation . The

      corrupt reading , is Xpi ^ ov , for lycrsv : the defective observation , pp . 3 , 4 , [ note ^ , ] that , according to " Mill , " some AfSS . and some of the Fathers read " Jesus" in this verse . What the genuine text is , may be seen in Griesbaeh ' s editions of the N . T , in loc . ; and it will thence appear that not merely some MSS ., and some of

      the Fathers , so read the clause , but that external testimony preponderates most decidedly in favour of hj < r « v . Our author has stated , indeed , the truth , yet not the whole truth : nor should he have contented himself with " Mill " when still better authorities

      were at hand , " With Mill ' s edition , " says an extremely capable judge , % * Now D . D . t Now of the Church in Langham Place , &t \ X J . D . Michaelis . lntrod . to N . T .,

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      " the age of manhood / ' in biblical criticism , " commences . " It would seem that Dr . Spry has overlooked those succeeding critical editions of the Christian Scriptures , to which a greater maturity of knowledge and

      investigation has given birth , and of which Mill's highly meritorious and learned volume was the precursor . * This variety of reading , had been noticed , long before the appearance of the Principal of Edmund Hall in that

      department of Sacred Literature : Grotius f had not disregarded it ; even Gregory , in his very inferior edition of the Ureek Testament , which issued from the press of the University of Oxford , in 1703 , had marked the same difference—and the text of the

      Vulgate had continued to exhibit the word Jesum . To know that such is the genuine reading , cannot be unimportant : for the terms Christ and the Son of God are identical ; both of them meaning

      the Messiah of the Jews , and both being well explained by the twentysecond verse of the chapter , and by several passages beside . Sometimes , these phrases are placed in apposition , or as exegetical of each other . % In

      ( Marsh , ) Vol . II . P . I . Ch . xii . Sect . i . ; and Marsh's Lectures , VII . * Kiister ' s edition of the N . T . by Mill , is almost indispensable to the student . f- An not . in Acta Apostol ., in loc . X So , Matt . xvi . 16 , which the twentieth verse of the same chapter completely

      explains ; Matt . xxvi . 63 ; Mark i . 1 , compared with Mark xii . 35 , xiv . 61 ; Matt , xxvii . 42 ; Rom . i . 3 , 4 , x , 9 ; and John vi . 69 , in GriesbactTs edition , together with John i . 49 . To Johnxx . 31 , John xvii . 3 , is parallel- Other texts might be enumerated : but these are

      sufficient to shew that , if we interpret Scripture by itself , the tide , Son of Gody is no proof of our Lord ' s Deity . We take the liberty of further referring the theological student to Lightfoot ' s Works , IL

      385 , to J . D . Michaglis' Introd * to New Test . I . 339 , IV . ( Marsh , 1801 ) , 409 , 410 , on 1 John v . )—6 ; and to Kuinoel ' s Connn ., &c . ( 2 d ed ) , onv Matt . xvi . 16 , John vi . 69 , who says of the terms ia question , ** Sunt formulae idem valeiitcs /*

      Review. " Still Pleased To Praise, Yet Not Afraid To Blame."— Popb.

      REVIEW . " Still pleased to praise , yet not afraid to blame . "— Popb .

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    • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1825, page 291, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2536/page/35/