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THE PACIFIC
Commercial Advertiser.
THURSDAY. SEPTEMBER II.

in theological science, may be deserving OF
notice, even in the columns of the secular press.
1t becomes public property, and if 1t has any
thought in it, is provocative of public discus
sion. So We thought when Mr.. Mason, by per-
mission of his Bishop CPermissu Episcopi,)
published his sermon on The Creation Of man
in the image of God" And for that reason
we made some structures upon the fanciful, not
to say fantastic. Interpretation OF his text,
which Mr.. Mason insists upon and we VEN
tured to call in question the somewhat pedantic
show of Hebrew scholarship upon which that
Interpretation rested. There We ~purposed to
let the subject drop. But Mr.. Mason has writ
ten two articles in defence Of his discourse
which require further notice, since they show
him to be, If possible. lamer as a iinguist, and
more manifestly erroneous in his statements,
than he seemed in the original sermon. The
one is Il response to what he is pleased to call
our harmless criticism. The other is "A reply
in the last Pokynesian to a rather tart, though
slightly impious, sarcasm upon his position,
which had appeared in that paper. In his re-
sponse to our harmless criticism he says:
Perhaps l might have cut off the me- from the
Hebrew root - tzal, - leaving this simple form " tai
or 1T zal'm." | have by NE at present readings In
Hebrew from the book Of Genesis by a German
Hebraist; aud in a note on the text be gives " tai
as the s-signed-though unused-root 10 the word IN
question, meaning to cast a shade or be shady.
| have only an English edition OF Uesenlus TRAM
mar in my library, and that OF course does not help
me in the suhjec; Of roots. / stand corrected In the
matter of b prefix with its usual pointing.
Bat tai, shade, or shadow, is from fEdIat;
fzeIem, image, is from Tallahassee Gesenius.
This frank confession of a lack of Hebrew books
in ones library. is a very good reason for not
attempting to tell what one does not know.
But it is hardly a fair apology for publishing
Il theological novelty, the whole force OF which
may depend upon Il grammatical blunder.
thank you. sir, for quoting Gen. ST. Adam
begat IA son in his own likeness. after his Shdde.'
4 melancholy contrast this verse TO our text, dod
said, = Let US make man in our Image lshadowl
after our likeness - The shadow or shade is now
contorted, spoiled by original sin
We do not believe that SAGde, or ShddOlr. IS
q proper rendering of feelem. Gesenius renders
it thus only in two passages, Ps 80 Z, and
Ps. 80 80. In the Septuagint it is rendered
always, we think, by eikOH. But who would
get any clear idea from the expressions, God
created man an has o,on shadoto? adam 6egOt
a son IN has olcn shade? We acknowledge that
the meaning is very Shadolry to lis.
Mr.. VI. says in his sermon, 1.-The truth
Oh the lICdEndtlOH TOtttS OUth upOh nv htSb
creation of man for it proves the possibility
OF mans being in has material form a perfect
reflection OF shadow of the GOdhedd :" Jesus
Christ, the perfect image of God, being made
of the old material substance Of man. If this
material and substantial resemblance OF man 10
his Maker is his idea Of the sense in which
man was the shadow or image of the Godhead-
then we ask him what he means by saying,
THE shadow or shade is now cOntorted. spoiled
by original SIM Does lie mean to say that
original sin has put our bones out OF joint, and
damaged our figures so that we are not half 50
good looking as Adam was? Or shall we as
sumo that in proportion to the degree of their
original sin men are twisted out OF shape and
distorted from the original type of the Divine
image? Heaven help the homelIest If this is
the standard of Judgment!
You object thus : : But nothing IL gained in giving
n new translation of the Hebrew word unless II can
be shown that the Greek word ei6Oa has the same
meaning in > Cor S:lS." Why SO. But had II
heen necessary | could have done so. Indeed | prefer
the word eikOn to any other for the Greek translation
of the Hebrew. Ii expresses idea emooiied much
better than the literal Greek translation ska
would for you are no doubt aware that eiEOn bears
the Specification of a phantom Sem6ldnce, "a shade,
and by no means conveys the same notion rs even
the other Greek word for image. namely : etaoioH.
The Latin image III Ihe uihneF e"I 'e Se"'e "
idea
That eikcn sometimes : bears the Specification
of a phantom senp5lance, Il shade" we admit {:
but we are not aware that this is its primary
and general meaning. Liddell and Scott define
it, a figure, image, likeness. spoken of Il picture,
or statue. Also, an yfhing Ike, a sinihtude. sem
BLaace, phantom. But they define idoton. Il
shape. figure, image in Homer, of diScmbodied
spirits, any unsu5stantial farm, especially q
rision, phantom of the mind. a tancy. IL.
In IMAGE IN the mind, idea. Ill. An image
a statue. Let our readers judge which of the
two words . : bears the Specification of Il
phantom somblance, Il shade" But we have no
interest in fixing any substantial or material
sense upon either Hebrew, Greek or English
word. for unlike Mr.. Mason, we hold that his
text refers not at all to the material substance
but solely to a spiritual likeness.
regret that you should differ from Holy Scripture
and the mind OF the Universal Church in your view
Of our Lords human nature. The Bible declares
that Jesus was made of "A woman and that . mas
much as the children are partakers of flesh and
blood, i, beloved Him (Jesus) also TO take part OF
the same
We differ neither from the Holy Scripture
nor from the mind of the Universal Church in
our view of our Lords human nature. Mr..
Mason asserts in his sermon that Jesus Christ
being the perfect image of God, was made OF
the old material substance OF man. We dis
sented from this because We do not believe that
it Is a doctrine of the Bible. Mr.. Mason at
tempts to sustain his assertion by quoting Gal.
"A, Jesus was made of a woman" The
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