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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1876 Excerpt:...of it. It is on solid fact alone I wish to found my arguments, not on the oscillating opinions of men. But are we to be told by you that the Septuagint translators, quoted by our Lord--that the pastors of Geneva, the translators of the authorised French Bible, the Assembly of divines at Westminster, Calvin, Sir Frederic Leigh, Dr Castell, Matthew Poole, Schleusner, Parkhurst, Scott, Henry, Drs Hammond, Doddridge, Mackniglit, Campbell, Boothroyd, Bloomfield, and Pye Smith, with Professors Bush and Stuart, are not amongst the first of scholars? Wesley, Watson, Clarke, Archd. Jeffreys, and others of inferior note, may be added. St Paul does not once mention drunkenness in the chapter cited; but, in the sixth, says that some of them had been drunkards, but were then sanctified. Could he so speak if a large body of them had been getting drunk at the Eucharist? Had he been accusing them of drunkenness, oould he immediately add--" Have ye not houses to eat and drink in?" No--for such a question implies that they might do that at home which they had done in the church; but this could not be said of intoxication. He clearly implies that their fault was simply this--doing at the sacred, feast what was their wont at home. As commentators have repeatedly remarked, the antithesis requires the passage to be rendered--' One is Hungry, and another is Full.' A Boman Catholic work, now before me, gives the same meaning to the phrase---' The Apostle condemns their partaking of this as of ordinary food.' (Letters to Dr Hook, p. 16.) 'Alcohol' says, indeed, that' 200 equally learned men might be brought to bear against them, 50 of whom were convened together to edit our,_ English Bible.' Now there were not 50 persons to translate St Paul's epistles, only seven. The 54...