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it to him, when no being existed beside the sacred three.
was the Father's attestation to the Son's eternal God-
head." If the Father's giving to Jesus deserved glory
should be acknowledged as amounting " to his attestation
to the Son's Godhead, " we must be under the necessity
of admitting the attestation of Jesus to the enternal deity
of his apostles, from the circumstance of his having given,
them the same deserved glory; —John xvii. 22, "And the
glory which thou hast given me I have given them," &c.
The Fditor twice says, that " Micah informs us that the
Son is from everlasting." I wish he had mentioned the
chapter and verse to which he alludes, that I might have
examined the passage.
He perhaps alludes to the phrase " everlasting," found
in the English version, in Micah v. 2 : " Out of thee shall
he come forth unto me that is to be ruler in Israel, whose
goings forth have been from of old, from everlasting." I
will, therefore, quote Parkhurst's explanation of the
original Hebrew word 123]} which is translated in the
English version " everlasting ;" and then notice the trans-
lation of this very Hebrew word, in many other instances,
by the authors of the English version ; and lastly, I will
repeat the context, that my readers may be able to Judge
whether any stress can be laid on the phrase alluded to by
the Editor.—First, from Parkhurst's Hebrew and English
Lexicon, ODJf and are used both as nouns and
particles, for time hidden or concealed from man, as well
indefinite, Gen. xvii. 8, 1 Sam. xiii. 13, 2 Sam. xii. 10,
and eternal, Gen. iii. 22, Psalm ix. 8, as finite, Exod.
xix. 9, xxi. 6, 1 Sam. i. 22, comp. ver. 28, 1 Sam. xxvii.
12, Isaiah, xxxii. i4; as well past, Gen. vi. 4, Deut. xxxii.
7, Josh. xxiv. 2, Psalm xli. 14, cxiii. 3, <?rov. viii. 23, as
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it to him, when no being existed beside the sacred three.
was the Father's attestation to the Son's eternal God-
head." If the Father's giving to Jesus deserved glory
should be acknowledged as amounting " to his attestation
to the Son's Godhead, " we must be under the necessity
of admitting the attestation of Jesus to the enternal deity
of his apostles, from the circumstance of his having given,
them the same deserved glory; —John xvii. 22, "And the
glory which thou hast given me I have given them," &c.
The Fditor twice says, that " Micah informs us that the
Son is from everlasting." I wish he had mentioned the
chapter and verse to which he alludes, that I might have
examined the passage.
He perhaps alludes to the phrase " everlasting," found
in the English version, in Micah v. 2 : " Out of thee shall
he come forth unto me that is to be ruler in Israel, whose
goings forth have been from of old, from everlasting." I
will, therefore, quote Parkhurst's explanation of the
original Hebrew word 123]} which is translated in the
English version " everlasting ;" and then notice the trans-
lation of this very Hebrew word, in many other instances,
by the authors of the English version ; and lastly, I will
repeat the context, that my readers may be able to Judge
whether any stress can be laid on the phrase alluded to by
the Editor.—First, from Parkhurst's Hebrew and English
Lexicon, ODJf and are used both as nouns and
particles, for time hidden or concealed from man, as well
indefinite, Gen. xvii. 8, 1 Sam. xiii. 13, 2 Sam. xii. 10,
and eternal, Gen. iii. 22, Psalm ix. 8, as finite, Exod.
xix. 9, xxi. 6, 1 Sam. i. 22, comp. ver. 28, 1 Sam. xxvii.
12, Isaiah, xxxii. i4; as well past, Gen. vi. 4, Deut. xxxii.
7, Josh. xxiv. 2, Psalm xli. 14, cxiii. 3, <?rov. viii. 23, as