New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1864-03-11
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To the Members of the American Bible Zion.


To the Members Of the American Bible I E:on.
DKAK FELLOW LABoURERs; The present stare OF ploie
Theoiogans demands examination into the claims oil tue
Septusgn attention end definite determination respecting
the Nauc Of It's authority purpose on The present occa'oH
to submit these subjects 10 your consideration.
II indeed painful to hear declarations respecting The good
Providence Of God In granting to us the DE NJ
wa possess in the L&x means Of unfold n. noth the
words Of His Divine Revelation and the Sense that thvse
words designed seeing that cannot ind
been translated IN any respect otherwise than would hste
been, had the bAH 9Sis;rd sud this too even w the
Readings the Hebrew MSS directly contradiced by the
!siou Of the even! IN the new Testament See zen
Aiyi.. %. EsO. l., ;. Act. vii, ~.
he Readings OF the Ink that differ the Hebrew Text
ere Numerous and are also so important a. IPeTdr,yto
demand either that the LINZ be received the only True
Teri Of Holy Scripture DC altogether discarded as IN
worthy Of stsnon IN determining eher the Sense or the
True lert OF Divine Revelation.
the Xxx not conpe'en. Hebrew Scholars for
the just performance Of their work before any opinion can
Text which Authors Translated the same in its
import "a that which the Hebrew Mss represent
4, 70 be and this I, be proved could not have been
Ia - present Of Ihe0ogans minds this subject II
appear 10 be better 20 endesvour TO estsbsh this
POSITION farther th9n to request cm examination OF e
pasgc in the Hioiued List leaving to each man to explain
to his sa,isiscon whether the Hebrew Records do
Truly represent tAe Original Tex, M those passages inc eY
idence OF XX IN place justly be received IS author
iy In tie passages IN the snbon;d List selected nom me
ft Five chapters Of Genesis have ley unnotcrd numerous
ssl differences which might be- attributed 70 mperecton
Of scholarship in Of the en.cribng parties in most Of
those have produced Il is clear ha such an explanation Of
their difference cannot be admitted
Any himself perceive that the Hebrew Text is mac
curae in That important particular to the Sons Of Israel
~ the record the posery cf their father Jacobs seeing
that the record OF Genesis Nunber and Chronicles does
not agree with each other It therefore follows that Of
M. pr-ent DAY here have bsoufe Pye.nt Dsrson,tyation
that Sacred Records did not rcre cHf care TO pre-
serve Them from th. important particular team only
be an s4el Preference that claims any other portion
particular Of the Sacred Record exemption from
found in the Lxx proves nothing relative to the perfection Of
the accuracy oil That Record The Xxx claims only repre-
sen, the mos, correct Sec,cd Cory that the time II
made could be obtaned Of the Divine Original out Of the
rous Corrt7fsd Cpel tia; were then IN existence inc
Other r1cs unss it can proved either that the discovered
Error had existence in the document OF which the In 70
COPY or thst n had existence only in a document, that
ought not TO hsye selected Copy for the Xxx but
such has yet been proved 20 have existence n
FSamnation will prove that Quotations Ia the New Tesla
ment from the Old festamen are so commonly only Quota
tons OF this General Serse Of the Passage that any verbal
Originals any determine from which Of them
the Quotation taken. The PrOps Persons not
sared the Particular and General ndcronty changed
the Absolute and Qualified &c &c The only mode
Of determining the Original source OF Quotation II oy atten-
ton 10 the Facts Narrated Fact being specified IN ouos
T xGib Ia r..oce onlv In one of the Two Orign,ls
proves that 4. must have been taken from that Original IN
There are Six passages referred to in the New Tesla
nent Gen ,isi rs Eso. 5, Deut. Ni % Pa d g. lisb
found "a the Ink and which Facts if received True
qurs Two passages in the Hebrew Originals T. De- as
making Dyst False SfdteEeat; thus Gen XVII 70 Exc D.
Ac,s vii a. And be noted that there no, One rnyI.
pa',aqe In which the Fee. stated in any quotation IN Ie
New Testament only to be found IN The Hebrew Originals
Chranty Jews and also Christians did receive the sep
tuagiul as The Tue Tsrt OF Holy Scripture.
do answer them. habit. education pIedec.
FRI sfnFct hen be given Wen az I ing, SCI
HEBREW MSS.
Gen. e,ss and il was 80.
II herb yielding seed:
fruit; whose seed Is IN itself
IL seed after It's kind
IL lights IN tie armament, Of the heaven 10 divide &c.
q cattle, and creeping thing and beat Of the earth
AFTER bis kind.
image Of God created he him..
% over the fowl ot the heaven, and oyer every Hy
II On ihs Ses.uth day God ended his work.
every tha. is pleasant to the sight and good,
&c.
IS took the
~. Cain brought OF isu OF TIE ground IN Offering
And tho Lord had rcspec, unto Abel snd to his
Offering
Bus unto Cain and his offerings
81 thou doest well shal; taoa not be accepted'
and If thou ioest well. sin h.th az the door.
And thee shall be his desire, aud thou
shalt rule over him.
Aud Cain talked with Abel hia brother.
70 then began to Call upon the name Of the
Lord
'. an hundred and Thirty years.
eight hundred years
an hundred and i've years.
eight hundred and seven years.
ninety years.
10 sgh, hundred and iiteen years.
~ seventy years.
- eight bundled and forty years.
IS sixty and Eve years.
10 eight hundred and thirty years.
"a sixty aud tive years
y three hundred years.
10 an hundred and eighty two years'
20 five hundred and ninety and tive years.
u seven hundred seventy and seven years.
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