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Ijjo-S Xetr«- TZvV the Righte-ousness of our God and. Saviour JesusChrist.

It is observable that the Absence of the Arti-cle before Scowp®. makes it evident, that God and Saviour are both one L er son ; as above,Tit. ii. 13. But notwithstanding, the new Ver-sion makes them Two. Through the Veracityof God and of Jesus Christ . 2 st et. iii. 18. wehave the very same Construction, iv $

yvdscxsi tsj ji uQjev VfJ&v % emirs©. I»c« Xg/ij-'a.Here both Grotius and our Translator make butone Person spoken of: And the most probableReason of this different Exposition, where theConstruction is perfectly similar, is that theyare willing to own Jesus Christ for their Lord,but unwilling to admit him for their God : Whilstthe Scripture in these stallages alike declares both,or neither. Our Translator to make sure Workw ,v h the Place before us, has dropt the Wordsfjjv 'S.wTvp©. in his Version, plainly becausethe y favoured the Orthodox Sense of the Place.

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The literal Rendering of which Words is this,"And we are in him that is true , in his Son JesusChrist. This is the true God and eternal Life.From which stallage it is most evident, that Je-sus Christ is, in the Scripture Account, the trueGod . But rather than this should be, the new

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