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    Psalm lxviii . 19 , in the LXX ., will acknowledge . Nor was the Ajtostje constrained to make * on all occasions , exactly the same position of his words . * Erasmus placed a comma after < rapK < x >; and we are not ashamed of the authority of " that great , iniured name . "

    On Coloss * i- 15 , &c , Dr . Spry offers some criticisms that will hardly bear a rigid scrutiny . The idea of an identity of rank and nature , is absolutely excluded by the distinction whlqnPaiU draws between tlie invisible God and the image of the invisible tiodj while the whole context of the

    passage shews thai it is not thexaaterial creation of wiach xbe Apostle speaks * t € Things that are in heaven and th ^ t are in earthy' mean , in the phraseology of the yvnter of this Epistle , Jews and Gentiles * We state the fact deliberately , and under the sane * tion of an author whose learnings

    judgment and impartiality will not be fightly questioned , f-But , adds Dr . Spry , " St . Paul , in naany passages of his Epistles , declares that divine worship is due to Christ $ and represents him as proclaimed in heaven and earth as an object of devotion . " The select

    preacher * most unfortunately for himself , instances in Philip , ii . 9—11 . To that very passage we appeal , as one of those which teach the contrary doctrine . Had we not long been sensible of the correctness and force of

    the maxim , Nil admirari ! botji in theological discussions , and in ordinary life , we might be astonished at this gentleman ' s acquiescence in the received translation of a part of the

    tenth verse ,, and at his conclusion from tfie Apostle ' s language . Paul ' s Words are , \ vql ev Ttp qvq pan lyjare icotv yow jca / Ai //^ How ought the preposition zv to have been rendered ? Let

    the answer be Archbishop Seeker's : \ # In the examples eked under the preceding note we discern some little variety , in this respect . jr Ernesti J . A , E . Opuscula Theologlca , ( ed , 2 * , ) pp . 397 , &c . The same

    criticism occurs in Locke on the Epistles , JEphes . i . 16 , note ] : and ft has been illustrated in the late Rev . Robert Tyrwhites masterly Tract , On the Creation of all Things by the Man Christ Jfedns ' * I Sermons . ( 3 d at , ) Vol . 111 . 344 .

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    356 Reviews—Spry * s Two Sermon * before the University of Oxford .

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    €€ Every knee shall bow in his name ; £ pr so it should be translated , not at Ws name—to bow the knee in the naine of Jesus , is to pray in his name . " This passage , then , instead of declaring that divine worship is due to Christ , instead of representing him as proclaimed in heaven and earth as an object of devotion , holds him forth , on the other hand , as the Mediator .

    ( 1 Tina . ii . 5 , ) through whom Christian worship must be offered , and Christian devotion exercised . Neither caii the select pfeacher , with justness , rely en 2 Cor . xii . 8 , 9 , as sanctioning worship to J ^ stis Christ . We contend , firmly , yet humbly , that no act of worship is thete mentioned . The word rendered besott&A i * has

    neither in the original nor in the translation that specific import . If Dr . Spry will consult the respective coneordances of Tromm and Schmidt , he wHl perceive that other words are usually appropriated to the sense of prayer and sacred homage A Paul was

    especially and pre-eminently the servant of Christ , who called hiifo , by a miracle , J to the faith and ministry of the gospel , and by whom h 6 was favoured , at different times , with momentous communications and assurances , in vision . It was upon an occasion of this kind that the language

    on which Dr . Spry places so undue a weight fell from our Saviour and from his apostle . Now Christians are instructed to present their petitions and adorations to an unseen Being . Yet in the case under consideration the being- addressed was visible . Where is the evidence that Paul evet addressed him , when he was not the object of sense ? It follows , therefore , that no religious worship was now ojfered \ and that we have hiere no proof of our Lord ' s deity .

    The rest of Dr . Spry * s second discourse , will not require any particular animadversions . We take our leave of his " Two Sermons , " and shall eive some account of his remarks on Mr . Belsfcam ' s New Translation and Exposition , &e . This gentleman is accused s by the ¦¦

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1825, page 356, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2537/page/30/