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    PhiUpp . H . 6 , 7 * Though he professes to be the advocate of literal translation , he complains , however , of Mr . Belsham , for rendering the

    words ( Mp (^ u Sot / Xdi / by * ' the form of a slave . " Now this version of the p hrase is far from being new ; ar ^ d , inasmuch as we are hostile to the practice of confounding paraphrase with translation , we must pronounce that the author of the Exposition , &c ., has been eminently just and faithful , in this instance , to the original .

    " But / 5 Dr . Spry observes , after Bishop Bull , that " SouXo * is opposed to ® £ o $ , not to av $ po > Koc ; it means the subject condition of man in his rela ^ tion to God , not that of a slave as compared with a free man . " Our reply is , that even ware this a correct view of the thin # , such a comment

    cannot set aside the accuracy of Mr . Belsharn ' s rendering : for poptpni still means a form , and § w \ o <; still means a slave . These terms , in truth , must not be taken singly . To the phrase pofxpy ® zov , in verse the sixth , Paul opposes the phrase iMptyvp SovXqv , in verse the seventh . Jesus Christ was

    not only a man ( a , vQ §< oiroq ) 9 but a man in a most abject and servile condition *— familiar with sorrows and with woe : Jesus Christ was neither a real slave , nor actually and essentially God ; and the combination of the substantives no more supposes identity in the one case than in . the other , ( Pp . 137 , &c . )

    That iaoc is used adverbially in the Gr . ot the O . T ., Whitby has affirmed , and the select preacher caiinot deny : that it is so employed there frequently , Whitby has asserted and proved ; since he has brought forward not fewer than twelve examples in illustratiou . f Pp . 145 , 146 . To the catalogue of divines and scholars ,, who have disapproved ^ for various reasons , of the received translation of Philipp . ii . 6 , 7 , Mr , £ elahatn might have added other

    celebrated names . The fact that so many critics have animadverted on this rendering , may read a lesson of candour

    * Jeaus Christ submitted to the death of a slave , See yer . 8 , and Jell ' s Paraphra se , in Iqc . t So Bengel ; " accusativus adverbiasfens , ut szepe in Jobo . " Gnojnoii , in Joe .

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    and of equity to theological disputants > and , among these , to Dr . Spry . ? In Johjn v . L £ * ;/ the evangelist records not a doctrine taught or recognized by Jesus Christ , but the perverse and wilfully erroneous gloss , which the

    leading Jews put upon his language ; and to that gloss the select preacher is most perfectly welcome . P . 146 . Concerning' 2 Gor . xii . 8 , 9 , we again say , on ground which had already been pointed put arid vindi ^ - cated , that it is not an example of prayer to Christ .

    We think it unnecessary to proceed witlL these strictures on Dr . Spryfs pamphlet : of the nature and degree of his qualifications for engaging in the Trinitarian controversy , cur

    remarks may have enabled the reader to form a judgment . On the collateral subject of church-authority we dp not at present enter . The sixth , eighth , and twentieth articles of the

    communion to which this gentleman belongs , are conspicuous by their recognition of the supremacy of "Holy Scripr ture , " which slips emacy , however , does not appear to be duly and practically acknowledged by all tier sons . It is much to be lamented that the

    fairness and courtesy with which critical and theological , discussions are pursued by some of our neighbours on the continent , have not more imitators in our native land . This state of things may admit indeed exf an easy , yet , in respect of our country ,

    of no honourable explanation . Not that there is any particular reason to complain of the select preacher . Though his ecclesiastical pretensions be more than sufficiently high , hjs language is gentleness itself , when contrasted with the style of some of

    his cpnteinporaries and fellow-labourers . Still ne does not , even here , do justice to his own character , or to those whom he opposes . While he seems desirous of treating them with

    civility , he often throws out insihua * tions of a want of sincerity arid good fuith in the writer against whom his attacks are principally directed . * On his own part , there is something" like an assumption of infallibility—at least for " the universal church "—which it

    is not possible to support , and which , - T ¦¦ ¦ ' . » "V —¦ « ¦ » ? Pp . 9 0 , 109 , 115 , 135 , HO , 1 * 3 , 162 , in particular , *

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    Review . —> - $ pry * £ Two Sermons before the University of Oxford * * 3 ( U

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1825, page 361, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2537/page/35/