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fword," Gen. 3, 24. as 66 a Symbol of THE ORACLE"-De Cherubim, p. 86. And again, "GOD, having fharpened the diffector of all things, His ORACLE (τον τομέα των συμπανίων, αυτε ΛΟΓΟΝ) divideth the unformed and unmade effence of the whole."-Quis Rerum Divin. Hæres. p. 391.

5. Thy arrows [are] Jharp; peoples hall fall] under Thee; THE KING's enemies fhall fail in heart."

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In the ufual way of rendering this obfcure paffage, "Thine Arrows [are] harp (the people shall fall under Thee) in the heart of the Kings enemies.' The Hyperbaton or tranfition," marked by the Parenthefis, is abrupt and unnatural; wherefore to make the sense plainer, our Public Tranflation, tranfpofes the words;-" Thine arrows [are] sharp in the hearts of the Kings enemies; [whereby] the people fall under Thee." But the ingenious emendation proposed by Darell, in his Critical Remarks, feems much preferable: He refers the verb, 155, to the following (not the foregoing) words of the fentence; and renders it, they shall fail," or be difmayed," or 66 caft down," in which fenfe, the verb is also used in parallel paffages: "Let no mans heart fail" (1) 1 Sam. 17, 32. "And they were much cast down (5) in their own eyes." Neh. 6, 16. This furnishes a most noble climax to the fentence: representing first, the fharpness of CHRIST's arrows; next, the havoc they spread and lastly, the general difmay and confternation produced thereby in the heart of all THE KING'S enemies; even of those who were not engaged in the battle.And the whole accords perfectly with the reprefentations of Holy Writ:In another fublime vifion of the Apocalypfe, CHRIST triumphant, is thus reprefented, Rev. 6, 2.

“And I saw, and lo a white horse; and his rider having a bow: and there was given to him a crown and he went forth conquering and in order to conquer"-thus marking his prefent and future conquests: and the latter are thus magnificently described, after the opening of the fixth Seal: Rev. 6, 12.

"And lo, there was a great earthquake; and the fun became black as hair fackcloth, and the moon, as blood; and the stars of heaven fell to the ground, as a fig tree cafteth its early figs, when fhaken by a great wind: And the heaven departed, as a scroll rolled up, and every mountain and iland were removed out of their places :"

And the effects of these tremendous judgments, on the heart of all beholders, is thus awfully reprefented in the fublimeft imagery: 6, 15.

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And the Kings of the earth, and the nobles, and the rich, and the captains, and the mighty, and every fervant, and every freeman, hid themfelves, in the caves, and in the rocks of the mountains: And they say to the mountains and to the rocks: Fall upon us! and hide us from the face of HIM THAT SITTETH ON THE THRONE, and from the wrath of THE LAMB: for the great day of his wrath is come, and who shall be able to Stand!"

6-7.

Thy Throne, O God, [is] for ever and ever ;
A Sceptre of Equity is the Sceptre of thy kingdom;
Thou didst love righteousness and hate wickedness,
Therefore GOD, THY GOD, hath anointed thee
With oil of gladness above thy fellows."

Various and difcordant have been the guesses, and abortive the attempts of and the concealed enemies, or the well meaning but injudicious

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friends of CHRISTIANITY, to overthrow, undermine or unfettle the unequivocal and decifive evidence of this most important paffage, to the proper divinity of JESUS CHRIST: And although I have already endeavoured to vindicate it from mifreprefentation, in the Critique on the Introduction to the Hebrews, vol. 2, p. 16, and alfo, On the primitive names of the DEITY, Part II. p. 246, under the head, ÆLOHÍM: yet it may not be useless or unneceffary to enumerate the several glosses, ancient and modern, that have been put thereon;

1. Aben Ezra, to elude its force, fuppofes an ellipfis of the word throne, understood: 66 Thy throne is [the throne] of God, for ever" -as "Solomon fate on the throne of the LORD, as King, instead of David his Father," 1 Chron. 29, 23. But a greater than Solomon is here meant; and the ellipfis is far fetched, and rejected by the Chaldee Paraphraft and all the verfions without exception.

2. R. Gaon, fuppofes an ellipfis of "David," and of "will establish" -thus, "Thy throne, [O David] GOD [will establish] for ever."-But to fuppofe David, the writer of the Hymn, to apoftrophize himself thus, is abfurd and impious.

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3. He alfo fuppofes, that the term God, may be used in an inferior fenfe, as Mofes was made a God to Pharaoh" Exod. 7. 1-And this notion seems to have been adopted by the BRITISH CRITIC, as stated in the latter critique referred to above-and there, I truft, fully refuted.

4. A Leader in the Unitarian School, Wakefield, renders-" GOD is thy throne for ever and ever." But as your correfpondent Bouftead, well obferved thereon, Vol. 1. p. 392. To convert GOD himself into a throne for the Son to fit on, is a perverfion of rhetoric and reason, little thort

of blafphemy.

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5. It is our furmise however-" GOD [faith] thy throne is to the age of the age" Vol. 1. 331, cannot ftand, for this additional reason ; that although Aye, "faith" might perhaps be understood, as marking a citation, λέγει, in the Introduction to the Hebrews: it cannot poffibly be understood or introduced without violence to the context, in the forty-fifth pfalm, in which ÆLOHIM, God, is part of the original text; and is taken vocatively, by the Chaldee paraphraft and all the verfions; as 'o ε05, was proved to be, in the Septuagint verfion of Pf. 22. 1. compared with Matt. 27. 46.

6. As a laft fubterfuge, fome would fain expunge ELOHIM, entirely from the text, (fee Slichtingius on Rom. 9. 5.) contrary to all ancient verfions, editions, and MSS.

Rejecting all thefe "imaginations," as idle and mifchievous, we are fully authorized to understand, the paffage in the ufual conftruction, as defcriptive of the divinity of CHRIST; of the duration of his kingdom, and of his tranfcendent exaltation, in confequence of his fuperior worth and excellence, above his fellows: or the angels; as understood by the Introduction of the Hebrews, 1. 7—9—far above every principality, and jurifdiction, and power, and dominion, and every name that is named, not "only in this world, but alfo in the future" Ephef. 1. 21. "Angels and jurifdictions and powers having been fubjected unto Him," 1 Pet. 3, 29. to whom all authority was given in Heaven and in earth," at his refurrection. Matt. 28. 18.

The following fublime defcription of his Throne, and of the general Judgment, is also furnished by the Apocalypfe, 20. 11-14.

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"And I faw a great white throne, and Him that fat thereon; from whofe face the earth and the Heavens fled; and there was found no place for them: And I faw the dead, fmall and great, ftanding before the Throne; and the Books were opened, and another Book was opened, which is [the Book] of Life: and the dead were judged out of the things written in the Books according to their works: and Death and Hades were caft into the Lake of Fire (This is the fecond Death.) and whofoever was not found written in the Book of Life, was caft into the Lake of Fire."

N.B. In the received Greek Text, the Dead are reprefented, as "ftanding (ENTION TO 8) before GOD"-namely, THE GOD who fat upon the Throne; and which correfponds with the Pfalmift's Title, ELOHIM : however, as the reading, WO TOρove," before the throne" is fupported by the authority of all the ancient Verfions, the Syriac, Vulgate, Ethiopic, Arabic and Coptic; by the earliest editions, the Complutentian, Plautin, Geneva; by the Alexandrine and Vatican, and 15 other MSS. of character, and restored into the Text by Bengelius and Griefbach; I cannot hesitate to adopt it: More especially, as according to the ufage of the writers of the New Testament, the term, o‘OEOZ, taken abfolutely or unconnected, denotes "THE SUPREME GOD"--who clearly is not meant in this place : as will further appear from OUR LORD's fuller description of the laft Judgment: Matt. 25. 31.

(To be concluded in our next.)

THE TARGUMIM OR CHALDEE PARAPHRASES,

of ONKELOS, of JONATHAN BEN UZZIEL, (falfely fo called) and of JERUSALEM,

ON THE LAW OF MOSES.

Genefis, Cha. 6. v. 1.

Onkelos. AND it came to pafs when the fons of Men began to multiply upon the face of the earth, and daughters were

born unto them. Pfeudo-Jonathan. And it came to pass when the fons of men began to multiply upon the face of the earth, and beautiful daughters were born unto them.

2.

O. That the fons of the nobles faw the daughters of men that they were beautiful; and they took unto themselves wives of all whom they chofe.

P. J. That the fons of the nobles faw the daughters of men that they were beautiful, both painting their faces and curling their hair, and walking in fleshly impudence and imagination of whoredom, and they took unto themselves wives of all whom they chose.

3.

O. And the Lord faid, This wicked generation fhall not live before me for ever, inasmuch as they are flesh, and their works are evil, a prorogation of punishment shall be given them, even an hundred and twenty years, if fo be that they will repent.

Openness or manifestation of the flesh.

P. J.

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P. J. And the Lord faid by his word: All those wicked generations which are to arise shall not be judged after the order of THE JUDGMENT OF THE GENERATION OF THE FLOOD, TO BE DESTROYED AND rooted out from the midst of the world. Have I not placed in them the Spirit of my Holiness, in order that they should perform good works? But, behold! because they have performed ill their works, behold! I gave them a term of an hundred and twenty years, in order that they might exercise repentance, but they have not done it.

J. And the word of the Lord said, The generations that are to arise after the generation of the flood fhall not be judged that they should be deftroyed, confumed, and utterly rooted out. Have I not placed my Spirit in the fons of men, for that they are flesh, and that their works may be good works? Because their works are evil works, behold! I gave them the space of an hundred and twenty years; if fo be that they would exercise repentance, but they have not done it.

4.

: 0. There were giants in the earth in those days and also after that the fons of the nobles had gone in unto the daughters of men and had begotten children of them. These were mighty men who were of old men of †

renown.

P. J. Schamchazai and Uzill, these were they who fell from heaven, were upon the earth in those days and also after that the fons of the nobles went in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children unto them, and thefe were called men who were of old, men of † renown.

5.

0. And when the Lord faw that the wickednefs of man was multiplied upon the earth, and that every inclination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil ‡ day by day.

P. J. And the Lord faw that the wickednefs of man was great upon the earth, and every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil every day.

6.

0. Then it repented the Lord within himself that he had made man upon the earth, and he faid within himfelf that he would bruife their ftrength according § as it feemed good to him.

P. J. And the Lord repented in himself that he had made man upon the earth, and he passed judgment upon them in himself.

J. And it repented the Lord in his word that he had made man upon the earth, and he talked and reafoned with his heart.

7.

0. And the Lord faid, I will destroy the man whom I have created from off the face of the earth, from man even unto the cattle, unto the creeping thing and unto the fowl of the ¶ air, for it repenteth me within myfelf that I have made them.

P. J. And the Lord faid, I will deftroy man by my word whom I have created from off the face of the earth, from man even unto the cattle, unto the creeping thing and unto the fowl of the ¶ air, for it repenteth me in myfelf that I have made them.

‡ Name.

† Every day.

* His word.
There was repentance before the Lord in his word.

§ To his will.

¶Heaven.

8.

0. But Noach found * mercy before the Lord.

P. J. But Noach, who was a juft man, found favor before the Lord. J. But Noach because he was just in his generation found favor and mercy before the Lord.

9.

0. These are the generations of Noach; Noach was a juft man, perfect in his generation. In the fear of the Lord walked Noach.

P. J. This is the * lineage of the generation, of Noach; Noach was a juft man, perfect all in good works was he in his generations. In the fear of the Lord walked Noach.

0.

10.

And Noach begat three Sons, Shem, Cham, and Japheth.

P. J. And Noach begat three Sons, Shem, Cham, and Japheth.

11.

0. And the earth was corrupt before the Lord, and the earth was filled with rapine.

P. J. And the earth was corrupt through the inhabitants thereof, who had turned afide from the right paths in the fight of the Lord, and the earth was filled with * rapine.

J. And the earth was filled with violence and rapine.

12.

0. And the Lord contemplated the earth, and behold it was corrupt, for all fiefh had corrupted every man his way upon the earth.

P. J. And the Lord faw the earth and behold! it was corrupt, for all flesh had corrupted every one his way upon the earth.

13.

O. And the Lord faid unto Noach, The end of all flesh is come before me, for the earth is filled with rapine through their evil works, and behold! I will destroy them with the earth.

P. J. And the Lord faid unto Noach, The end of all flesh is come from before me, for the earth is filled with rapine through their evil works, and behold I will deftroy them with the earth.

14.

O. Make to thyself an ark of cedar-wood, rooms fhalt thou make in the ark, and thou fhall cover it within and without with pitch.

P. J. Make unto thyfelf an ark of cedar wood, an hundred and fifty cells fhalt thou make in the ark in its left fide, and thirty-fix in its breadth, and ten binns in the middle wherein to place food, and five compartments on the right hand and five on its left, and thou fhalt fmear it within and without with pitch.

J. An ark of the wood of cedar.

0. And thus, it is that thou thalt make it: three hundred cubits hall be the length of the ark, fifty cubits its breadth, and thirty cubits its height.

16.

0. A window fhalt thou make to the ark, and in a cubit fhalt thou finish it above, and the door of the ark thou fhalt place in the fide thereof, with lower, fecond, and third rooms thou fhalt make it.

P. J. Go unto Pithon, and take from thence the † precious ftone, and thou fhalt place it in the ark to give light unto you, and in a cubit shalt + Vide Sanhedrin, fol. 108, col. 2. U u

* Plural.

Vol. III. Churchm. Mag. Dec. 1802.

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