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A Critical Examination of the late New Text and Version of the New Testament ... / by Leonard Twells, Vicar of St. Mary's in Malborough
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XVIII. Heb. iv. 15. Since he (i. e. Christ) wasexposed to the same Trials that weare , Sin only excepted.

This is false FaB, and therefore cannot be trueVersion. For Christ was tempted to Sin as wellas we, though not overcome by it. After Tri-als of the severest Kind, he remained ayxap--natf, void of Sin r Which is what the Apostlemeant here,

XIX. James iii. 6. The Tongue is but one of

the numerous Organs of the Rody y yetit can blast whole Assemblies.

Greek. oXov to But hereby is certainly

meant the whole human jBody : Between whichI and the Tongue , as one of its Members, there ishere an evident Opposition, which is quite lost inthe new Version.

XX. 1 Joh. iv. 18. He that is ajfeBed with

Fear cannot be sincere in bis Lone.

This is a false Assertion, and therefore cannotbe Sr. Johns, Sense. Love mix’d with Fear, maybe sincere, though it cannot be perfect, which isall that the Apostle says.

XXI. Ren. xviii. 2. The Dungeon of every foul

Spirit , and a Cage of ecery impureillhoding Sird.

The Place here spoken of is a City turn’d intoa Wilderness. But the Hellenijtick Writers neversupposed such Places to be the Residence of foulSpirits by Compulsion, but Choice: Such Places

were