Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1838-01-17
ANTI-sLAVERY.
TIE BEbie against slayery.--conanaed.
IMPORT OF. THE WORD "BUY,n AND THE
PHRASE "BoUoHT WITH MONEY"


PHRASE "BoUGHT WITH MONEY"
From the direction to the IsraeIites 10
buy" their servants, and from the phrase
!" bought with money" applied to Abra.
hams servants, il is argued that they
were articles ofPropeyty The sole ground
for this belief is the terms abuy'' and
bought with money" and such an inI-
port to these terms when applied to SER
wants is assumed, not only in the absence
Of all proof, but in the lace of evidence to
the contrary. How much might be saw
ed, If In discussion, the thing to be prov
ed was always assumed. To beg the
question in debate, what economy of mid
night oil what forestaller Of premature
wrinkles, and grey hairsl insead OF
protracted investigation into Scripture
usage, and painful collating Of passages,
and cautiously tracing minute relations,
70 find the meaning Of Scripture terms,
let every man boldly resolve to interpret
The language Of the Oldest book in the
world. by the usages Of his own lime and
place, and the work is done. And then
what q march Of mind Instead Of one
revelation. they might be multiplied as
the droops ofthe morningl Every man
might take orders as an inspired inter-
prefer, with an infalliable clue 10 the mind
ofthe Spirit, IL be only understood the d.
alect Of his own neighborhood We re-
peat H. the only ground of proof that these
sterIns are 10 be interpreted to mean, when
applied to servants in the Bible, the same
that they mean when applied to our slares
- the terms fkemselves e.a7F y
What q Babeljargon il would make Of
the Bible 10 take il for granted that the
sense in which words are HouO used IS the
saspired sense. }a.a p a.
David says, . Iprevented the dawnino
of the morning. and cried.' What a mir.
acle-worker, TO stop the earth in its reyo
lutionl Rather too fast. Two hundred
years ago, prerent was used in the stric
Latin sense to come before, or anticipate
II is always used in this sense In the Ole
and New Testaments. Davids express
: ION, IN the English OF the nineteenth cen
fury, IS, " Before the dawning ofthe mora
ing cried,n or, ! began to cry befor,
tday-break. So my prayers shall pre-
rent Jhee.n Let us prpUent his face
) with thanksgiving I" Mine eyes pre
cent the night Watches I'VE shall no
) yreueat them that are asleep" Sc. II
almost every chapter Of the Bible, word.
are used in q sense now nearly or quit
obsolete, and sometimes in sense totally
opposite @ their present meaning. AfeN
! examples follow: !" Ohentimes | purpos
ed to come 20 you. but was let (hindered
hitherto And the four beasts living
ones) fell down and worshipped God,"-
SWhosoever shall offend (cause to sin,
one Of these little ones. 49, Go out int
the high ways and compel (urge) them Il
come in, -" Ouly LEI your eoarersatio,
(habiiual conduct or course of lifel be a.
hecometh the Gospel -saThey that seel
me early Earnestly shall find me."-
!. Give me Iy-aad-by (now) in Charger
the head Of John the Baptist, $50 wher
tribulation or persecution ariseth by-and-b,
Immediately they are offended. Moth
ing Is more molable than language
Words, like bodies, are continually throw
ing of particles and absorbing Others
SO long as they Gre mere representatives
elected by the whims Of universal suff
rage. their meaning will be perfect vol
ntile. and to cork i up for the next cen
fury IS an employment sufficiently silly
90 speak within bounds for modern
Bible dictionary maker. There nevel
was a shallower conceit than that Of estab
fishing the sense attached to word cen
turtles ago, by showing what i, mean,
noe. Pity that hyperfashionabIe man
tuamakers and miliners were not littls
quicker at hiking hints from some Of oul
Doctors Of Divinity. How easily they
couldsavc their pions cnstomersall quaIms
ofeonscience about the weekly sbihiD9s
Of fashion. BY demonstrating that the last
importai'Dn Of Partisan iadccency,- jus,