above the rest; som andra is adequate to being; sufficient as Suidas 2017 ore par appolo, fit for our support.' Give us not a superfluous bread, but a sufficient bread, O Lord! this day, or every day explained by xal' nepaz. Mede, p. 125.86. 1 Thus Toup also: To derive ng from 2 with Scali ger, Salmasius and Kuster, is not according to the genius of the Greek tongue. It is from a like us, "bread necessary for our subsistence, daily bread." Toup. Ep. Crit. ad Episc. Glouc p. 140.Bowyer. So Doddridge. Macknight." Michaelis, on the other side, joins Father Simon in thinking decisives and with good reason according to his own idea, that the Nazarene Gospel is the interpolated original of St. Matthew, and this passage not interpolated. And thus, lastly, Mr. Weston, whose acuteness and elegance of criticism are well known, illustrates, dimchar, "until tomorrow," (and not with a "of to-morrow,"), by shy in Josephus Ant. lib. iii. c. 10.; and hence concludes, that also was intended to mean us The E, or $5. atipi, "until to-morrow." H78 is a usual phrase, Prov. xxvii. 1. LXX.. Synes. Scapula; often used by St. Luke in the Acts for the morrow; so that he might have even used it here, as he changed -μeper into xab gav, if he had wished to convey that sense. Dimchar, however, though well expressed by stre, may yet be a forced or improper rendering of o This seems much to depend on the weight to be allowed to the Nazarene Gospel. The reader will observe how nearly this day," or "day by day," our daily bread, expresses the sense both of Grotius and of Mede. So that, as Medé truly says, "the meaning in general is indifferently well agreed upon; but much ado there is what this word b should signify."** Bread, , includes plainly, as the Latin Victus, all articles of subsistence and raiment, as Gen. xviii. 5. xliii. 31, 34. 1 Sam. ix. Kings xxi. 7. 1 Tim. vi. 8. Grotius. Whitby." The last extract shall be on the disputed passage of John ch. viii. 13. A woman taken in adultery. The doubts concerning the authenticity of this history, including the last verse of ch. vii. and the first cleven verses of this chapter, are fully stated by Simon and by Mill. The leading objections chiefly are, (but all cannot here be recited,) that it is not found in the Alex. Vatic. and some other Greek MSS. nor in the best copies of the Syriac; that in many others it is marked as faulty by an obelisk that Eusebius relates, that Papias gives a story of a woman accused of many crimes before Christ from the Nazarene Hebrew Gospel, and intimates that this was that legend; that Jerom implies, it is wanting in some copies that Chrysostom, in his comment on St. John, Origen, Clem. Alex. Cyrill, Theophylact, Nonnus, have omitted it; and that there are many errors in the text itself. Hence Beza questions, and Grotius and Hammond, with Le Clerc and Wetstein, reject it. But 5 : * But to these objections it is replied by Father Simon, from Mal donate, by Whitby also and Mill, that it is noticed by Ammonius in his Harmony of the Gospels, who is much more ancient than Jerom, flor. A. D. 230. and by Tatian, who flourished A. D. 160. that is, sixty years after the death of St. John, These two authors, Ammonius, and Tatian, are much insisted on by Selden: that it is also acknowledged by Eusebius in his Canons of the Gospels, Can. x. 86. (Selden.) that the errors in the text are very slight ones that Jerom, lib. ii. adv. Pelag. allows it is found in many both Greek and Latin copies that he admitted into the Vulgate; and it appears in all Latin MSS. that it is mentioned, finally, by Athanasius, Ambrose, and by Augustin, lib. ii. de Adult. Conjug. c. vii. et alibig who ascribes its omission to the fear lest it give encouragement and impunity to bad women. It is the idea of Mill, that on this account it is marked with an obelisk, that it might not be publicly read, and hence omitted in later copies. The genuineness of the passage is generally held to be established. For an accurate view of the question, see Selden de Uxor. Heb. lib. iii. c. xi. Simon Crit. Hist. of N. Test. lib. 1. c. xiii. Mill' ad loc et Prol. No. 251. (Wetstein ad loc, contra.) Whitby ad loc. Rider Fam. Bible ad loc. Michaelis also is of opinion that it is authentic, par. i. c. vi. § xi. p. 318.'. From these specimens, our readers will see what they are to expect from this not injudicious compilation. Our chief objection is that the author is too diffuse, and repeats many things: to which a simple reference would have been quite sufficient. His Greek quotations are generally correct: but the printer has sadly disfigured the Hebrew. We will give an alphabetical list of such mistakes as struck us in a cursory examination : 1 בראשית for ברשית - ברך for ברד-אמה for אמה -ברך ior ברך בתוך for בטוך - בראשנה for בתהלה מרכבת for גנבת-חיים for היים- בשרה for בשר כרכים-.in the errata רוב wrongly corrected ריב for יב נדה for נדה-מאור for מארך-מבן ים or בצרות for and תילדות .corrected in the errata ענה for עבה-lost of these are pro תולדה and תולדות for תילדה bably chargeable on the printer; and some of them the com piler may have found in his authors: but in either case he ought to have corrected them. ART. XVI. Observations on the Union, Orange Associations, and other Subjects of Domestic Policy; with Reflections on the late Events, on the Continent. By George Moore, Esq. of Lincoln's Inn,, Barrister at Law. 8vo. pp. 80. 28. Dublin, printed: Lun" don, reprinted for Debrett." THE HE catholics of Ireland seem hitherto to have been neutral in the controversy respecting the Union, or adverse to the adoption of that measure. What changes were to take place, in the constitution of a government from which they were excluded, Hh 4 Ged..s. 1 excluded, appears to have been considered by them as question of mere indifference. On the one hand, they might perhaps suspect the promises of political immunities and favours, which were half held out to them by the proposers of the Union; and on the other, it was impossible that they could feel much zeal for the independent authority of a parlia ment in which they were disqualified to sit. The author of the pamphlet before us, however, whom we understand to be an Irish Catholic of a respectable family, and whose talents must render him a man of importance in every body of which he is a member, views the subject of Union in a very different light. His great object is to prove that a really national government is impossible in Ireland; that, so long as that kingdom enjoys a separate legislature, its affairs must be administered by a small party, who never can have any interests and sympathies in common with the body of the people; and who at present are exasperated against them by every sort of animosity and pre judice that can enflame the human heart. In the Imperial legislature, it is Mr. Moore's opinion, the mediatorial voice of England might appease the animosities of Irish factions: but, in the Irish parliament, an Irish faction must always govern and often oppress their enemies. It is not aur province to decide whether this opinion be true: but it is our duty to say that it is maintained with great ingenuity of argument and vigour of eloquence; that the author's stores of knowlege are evidently rich, and that his powers of original thinking, as well as of nervous and polished composition, qualify him for greater works than temporary pamphlets. In his general politics, he is strongly Antijacobin and Antigallican; without forgetting those sound and antient principles of liberty, which we have unfortunately lived to see become objects of jealousy and suspicion to many Englishmen; and which the violence of one set of men, and the fears of another, almost threaten to banish from the world. He confesses himself to have been at first an admirer of the French revolution: but, with a manliness and honesty which cannot in any case be too much "commended, he avows his error, and declares that he is now 'disabused. In speaking of the crimes and confusions of our times, Mr. Moore presents us with a picture of some of the great antient disturbers of the worlds which we shall lay before the public as a short specimen of the style of this pan phlet: True, Catiline conspired to overturn the Roman state, and ven、 tured to attack when a Cicero defended; but who was Catiline? Tully exhausts the subtleties of his stile to describe the various quali heations which composed that extraordinary man. I shall not mention that he was of a patrician family, one of the first in Romey that he possessed. possessed as splendid patrimony till he had dissipated it by his pro digality. Perishable distinctions! to use the words of a great orator, compared with the immortality of his genius and his crimes. He was gay with the gay, severe with the severe, and could accommo date his manners and conversation to the various descriptions of mankind. Senates listened while he spoke; legions recoiled from the vigour of his arm; his wit and hilarity were the delight of every social circle; he was the hero of the battle and the orator of the forum; he had a mind capable of every design, and a body capable of every hardship; neither watching, nor fatigue, nor hunger, nor the inclemency of the seasons could break the vigour of his constitu tion; he could carry on at the same time both a private intrigue and a public conspiracy; and while he meditated the destruction of the state which repressed his ambition, he was intent upon the ruin of the woman that enflamed his desires. As far as the word right is applicable to wickedness, such a man had a right to be ambitious. Enterprizes of uncommon atrocity and daring, from which common minds shrink appalled, were suited to a nature like his. He was one of those destructive spirits whom Providence sometimes sends abroad to try human virtue, and to confound human wisdom. He meditated the destruction of the Roman commonwealth, but he had a Cicero to contend with, and he failed. Cæsar afterwards succeeded. The name of Cæsar comprehends whatever human valour has of heroic, human sagacity of penetrating, and human wit of elegant and refined.-Such names communicate a splendour to the history of those times. We admire while we execrate; we are shocked at the atrocity of the purpose, but we are struck by the boldness of the execution, and by the talents that appear in the execution. Far different are the crimes of the present day; they answer one great moral end-in them wickedness appears in all its native deformity. Curious speculators will search the history of our times to discover the true form of vice, divested of all the false glare, which great talents and elegant accom plishments are so apt to throw over it.'-P. 24 & seq. If our limits would allow, we could select many passages not inferior to the preceding. We were peculiarly gratified by an animated and splendid panegyric on William III.; whose character every man, really interested in the liberty and happiness of mankind, finds every day new reason to reverence. The errors, the crimes, and the calamities of ill-conceived and il conducted revolutions, are daily furnishing us with fresh cause to admire that great Prince, and the wise and preserving Revo lution of which he was the chief. MONTHLY CATALOGUE MILITARY. Art. 17 Plan of Union for the Military Volunteer Associations within Great Britain, acting without Pay, recommended to the Perusal of the Members of every Volunteer Corps in the Kingdom. By 9am Officer of Association. 8vo. 6d. Robinsons. 1799. The Mack....sh. The author of this little tract points out, with great good sense, and in plain concise language, the advantages that would accrue if the different Volunteer Associations, many of which do not exceed fifty or sixty men, were formed into battalions, so as to act together on an uniform system and we recommend his plan to the attention of those who reside in large towns, or populous neighbourhoods; where it could more easily be carried into effect than in detached villages. Suth. Art, 18. Observations on the English and French (Gun) Locks, and on one newly constructed. By an Officer of the Guards. 8vo. is. 6d. Grellier, Coventry-street. 1799. We scarcely ever peruse a military publication, without finding very heavy complaints of the great number ofour muskets that miss fire in time of action. Any attempt, therefore, to remedy so serious a defect is entitled to praise; and we have no doubt that, if the author of this tract, whom we understand to be Col. Turner of the 3d Guards, will avow himself, and send a copy work to the, Master-General, (or, in his lordship's absence, to the principal officers of the Board of Ordnance,) his suggestions will meet with a candid con sideration. of his RELIGIOUS, &c. Art. 19. Minutie; or little things for the Poor of Christ's Flock; Do This performance receives, in our opinion, no recommendation from the peculiarity of its title; and some of its principles also may be at least questionable: yet it may nevertheless prove acceptable. and useful to many readers, of particular denominations. The advertisement, by which it is introduced, is much in the strain of remote times, and is so peculiar that we cannot refrain from inserting it ;— Every star emits light; the least are not useless, though imper-" ceptible by the human eye.. Little things are necessary and benefi cial, or God would not have made them. The smallest veins, through which the blood circulates, conduce to the welfare of the whole body. The widow's mite was accepted: If my mite of meditation may but be blessed to the poor of Christ's flock, they will, with me, join in giving glory to God. May grace be upon thee! This seems sufficient to give a competent idea of the book, Art. 20. The principal part of the Old Testament, from the beginning of Genesis, to the conclusion of the Second Book of Kings. By the Rev. William Ashburner, Vicar of Urswick, and Schoolmaster there. 12mo. pp. 640. 3s. 6d. Bound. Robinsons. 6761798. 1798. This book is intended for the use of schools, and it has employed some time and attention in a manner very congruous to the author's character and station. The old testament, he observes, is but little used in schools; and to remove some objections on this head, he offers this kind of abridgment, which contains a most important and interesting history from the creation of the world down to the Babylonish captivity, a period of 3407 years. The very short summary, exhibited Hi. |