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    ral appearances . Tfo 6 narrative plainly shews that the quality and the effects of the transaction were not those of a common tempest ; while the historian ' s candour in recording the opinion

    of such of the by-standers as said , « it thundered / ' is in the greatest degree presumptive of his fidelity . In such instances too it is not so milch the present as the continued and the lasting impression , which deserves to be regarded . ^ ...... 4 €

    1 Cor . iii . 8 : Now he that planU cth and he that watereth are one , " " One thing" [«/]> This clause throws perfees light on the phraseo * logy and import of our Lord ' s declaration in John x . 30 * " I and my Father are one" £ & ] ; one in counsel And intention . *

    2 Con i . 17 , 18 : " Yea yea , nay nay /' These verses and their context , may serve as an exercise in criticism and interpretation , and will point out the alliance that subsists between those

    branches of sacred teaming . It is clear , from the readings noticed in Griesbacii ' s outer margin , that soine of the transcribers , &c , have officiously altered the text , in consequence of their being- ignorant of the meaning of the phrase . That is an unstable doctrine which varies with times and

    circumstances , and is carefully " fashioned to the varying hour : ' * that which 13 now expressed in strongly affirmative and now in strongly negative terms ; at this moment , yea yea >

    at the next , nay nay . Not such was the gospel preached b y Paul : not such are the promises at God in Jesus Christ . —Let it be observed , that the repetition of the above words adds

    lutenseness to them . Hebrews i . 2 : "By whom , " &c . I cannot refrain from acknowledging that I have read with high delight Mr . Cogan ' s criticism on the preposition 8 ta , f and that I am grateful to him for the kindness with' which he

    " Joatm . x . 30 . Ego et Pater unum * ' «»«« . — -Unum essentia divinavit nescio Utus : commentum humanum rejicio , " « c . vSee p . 67 of Milton ' s posthumous w&rk entitled , J > e Doctrina Christiana . va ^ eologlcal * > erformance of surpassing M 6 n . Uepos . 388 , &c .

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    has rectified fcrry error in reference tr > a passage ci ( £ d from Thaeydides * V . § 53 , The virhote of his cammanication proves the inadmissibility of the rendering made by Grotiua . Rev . iii . 10 : " —the world , " [ t ^ QtK apevvis } — the earth" [ ryjq 7 ^] Dean Woodhouse , Transl . of Apoc . in loc , has given a better rendering *—" the region—the earth . * In Matt . xxiv . 3 , 14 , 21 , the received translation presents us indiscriminately with the term " world ; " though the Greek substantive be in each verse different

    —in the first instance , atavoq , the age or die Jewish dispensation^—tlrea o * x 8 £ C £ V 77 , the Roman empire — and , lastly , Ko < r ( A 8 f the world at large . This distinction is admirably preserved in the Vulgate , but has been generally lost sight of by translators . N .

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    Sir , ALTHOUG H I am aware that this communication may not be in . * teresting to the generality of your readers , yet as you profess to hold out a ' Repository for General

    Literature , I hope they will excuse iny rea nesting a place for it . Some at least of your readers may recollect the beautiful lines adopted by Dr . Hutton , of Leeds , as a motto in the title-page of his Funeral Sermon for his friend Henry Turner , late of Nottingham .

    Te mihi junxerunt nivei sine crimine mores , Simplicitasque sagax , ingenuusqne pudor , Et ben& nota fides , et candor frontia hone stse , Et studia h studiis uon aliena nicis .

    On being asked for a reference , Dr . Hutton replied that , having been struck with them in the course of his miscellaneous reading some years before , lie had inserted them in his Common-place Book on the same pags

    which contained an entiy in the handwriting of his friend , as singularly appropriate to his character , and to their mutual friendship and relation as fellow-students and fellow-ministers ; hut that he could not recollect in what

    author he had met with them . Several other friends were then applied to , whose acquaintance with the Latin poets , both ancient and modern , is very exteasivc , but without success

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    Latin Ver&es applied to the tate Rev . If . Turner . 455

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1825, page 455, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2539/page/5/