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ripttiE aspiraats after episcopal ho-JL ;; noura and ecclesiastical emolument $ , are infinitely indebted to the Editors of the Improved Version of the New Testament . In a book written
by ooe of these gentlemen , I find great indignation expressed at the rendering of 2 Tim , iii . 16 , All Scripture given by inspiration , &c Not that I suppose these gentlemen are angry in reality , any more than a sportsman is
angry with a hare or fox which he kills , though killing seems in one case the expression of wrath , and calumny in the other seems to indicate dkplea-§ ure . My object , however , is not to expatiate on this mode of warfare , but to make some remarks on the text in
question , and another somewhat connected with it .. The only two views of the text above named that J have seen , are that in pur Common Version and that in the Improved Version . Neither of them
appears to me satisfactory . , It would seem a somewhat superfluoua observation from the apostle tp t&U Tirno $ hy , that the inspired part # f the Scriptures was profitable , &c . , He had just before reminded his young friend , that from a ehild he had known
the Holy Scriptures , which were able to make him wiee unto salvation ; where , then , was the necessity of adding that sudU parts of Scripture as were divinely inspired were profitable for doctrine , for reproof , for correction ,
for instrijujtijQn in nghteousnesa ? The objecfion to the Common Ver sion is , tiat it fa aot quite fai unison with the language of r jtheorigmaL In the preceding verae he £ * lte the Scriptures * m i * pm f > f «/^] Ui « T <»; in the verse in que&fcionh&uae *" mamygauptri . Now Uytbte expression hermuct iB ^ m 4 fv <^ wtwtme , o&lit ift hardly mppo ^ ble that , b& would use towgiiflg « «^ indefr-
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V&& US to < MpO * tfcfrt &&& individual scripture «> r passage m conducive to this variety #£ ; $ mJ 9 jU ^ imtft&wi&d stated * and if ^ had wt ^ aded to say that aB the Scnpfure « were divinely inspired , he would most likely have said mav * a . */ pauMamr * * or oA itwrat
ypoufa * . _ t , Allow me to Biuggept another rendering . Tfye words scripture m& writing have in our language a distinct meaning . There wm not stich distuiction i » the Greek : the Greeks had
ypapq for wr&ing , ypmpj ** for a thingwritten ; the books of the Old Testament were colled emphatically the Writing ** or the Sacred Writings ; we m&fp therefore , very naturally suppose raul to have said to Timothy , " Thou hast from a child been
acquainted with the Holy Writings , which are able to make thee wise , or instruct thee to salvation . AIL writing , ( i . e ^) the art of writing , is of God , and is profitable for the several
purposes of instruction in the first rudiments of knowledge , % &m * TKafcux , ; for the higher branches of science or argument , zXeyxH ; for direction ia moral conduct . £ * wj' 0 p&& * - ' < ; mid lastly , for
instruction or initiation into the highest duties of religion , TOt *§ £ ta ^ cv 8 * xa * o-< rt > y fl . " The indefiniteness of icaarat ypaxpr ) will admit and , indeed , seems to require this .
This leads me to an interpretation of a passage in the second Epistle of Peter iii 16 , " which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest , as they do also the other Scriptures , to their own destruction . " Is it not better to
« ay , " which they that axe unlearned mid unstable wrest , as they do other writings , to their destruction / ' L e . to the destruction of the writings or the total perversion of their meaning If the apostle had meant the
destruction of themselves , he would have used hxx > T& 9 % as in Rom * iv . 19 , to kxme vvfMx ,, his ot&m body ; or omitted awrav , as ia Bain . x \ v . A , t * S ^ hv ? w > & his own Tnaater i hut <* ao < rip & ' *
avruv amcoteac * jt yewaa to the entire destruction of" them , referring to the writing * . A iinjdlarr mesaamg ^ oi 3 w may be found aa ** Stoigii ^ JLejacon Xenoph : . n : * k . Vj % : € ertusy ntru&i perpetitus , - ^ * 13 r aotuytat * d * o , ¦ - Vomm < $ jjjiw peculi $ ws » j r . ¦ * n , * vr v /« - ¦ : <¦ ^ ^ ¦ - ¦¦ - I Jrterely mm ^ t ttie abwe *» qiie-
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only tetrarch of Galilee , infrequently called king , H 9 Mark vi . 14 ; but he could not without great iismr ^ prlety have been called king of Judea ,. >
According to this readnig and interpretation , the passage agrees with Luke iii . 1 , 2 , while the evident absurdity of the reading given by our common copies m Matt . iii . 1 , strongl y confirms the other flrgiunents for believing that Matthew L and ii . axe not genuine . T . C . H ,
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396 On 2 Tirn ^ uL 16 ^ and 2 Pet . Si . 16 .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1820, page 396, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2490/page/16/
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