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On the Hebrew Name of Jesus Christ. 



[Feb. 1, 



to insanity. We tliink, however, that 

 the Reviewer is not strictly logical in 

 his argument, lor although nioial error 

 he the consequence of physical disease, 

 it surely does not follow that criminal 

 acts should he deemed less offensive to 

 correct feeling merely hecause the cri- 

 minal himself may have heen actuated 

 by physical impulses. There is no 

 part of the treatment applied to insa- 

 nity so effectual in controlling extra- 

 vagant behnvioiir, as coercive means ; 

 and therefore, whether criminals he 

 instigated in their depraved volitions 

 by disease, or by what is called vice, 

 we do not see how crimes oiight to be 

 considered with more indulgence in 

 the one case than in the other. It is a 

 proper humanity — a christian doctrine 

 — which instructs us to regard the 

 wicked with compassion ; but we 

 should become evil ourselves, were we 

 to allow compassion to prevent tis 

 from taking juilicial meas-nes of inti- 

 midatory justice against oflenders — 

 measures which are essential to the 

 maintenance of social life. 



The eighth article occupies the re- 

 mainder of the Number, and is of great 

 extent, five sheets. It relates to the Re- 

 port of the SeleclCommitteeon Criminal 

 Laws, and is one of the ablest exposi- 

 tions we have yet vseen on that interest- 

 ing subject. We are quite astonished 

 4o find a paper so masterly, liberal, and 

 impartial, in the Quarterly Review. 

 We hope and trust, considering the 

 persons among whom the Review chiefly 

 circulates, that, if the country must still 

 endure the present ministers, this calm 

 and excellent paper will produce some 

 effect upon them, and lead to that dis- 

 passionate investigation of the subject, 

 which its importance so imperiously 

 requix'es, and which we freely acknow- 

 ledge it has not rescued from its advo- 

 cates. The alterations in fundamental 

 laws on like experiments in medicine 

 — they kill or cure, and the case should 

 be well made out before any of them is 

 tried. 



To the Editor of the Monthlj Magazine. 



SIR, 



EVERY reader of the Monthly Ma- 

 gazine, who is a lover of truth, 

 will be gratified with the propriety of 

 your Correspondent's observations re- 

 specting the orthography of the name 

 Jesus Christ. 



The translators of the sacred writ- 

 ings have converted the Hebrew letter 

 « end or yod (which corresponds with 



the Greek e or the y of Mo<lern En- 

 rope) into J ; by which mutation the 

 true sound and pronunciation of the 

 word .Jesus (as well as many others) is 

 altogether lost. 



The Romans first called Tadmor in 

 the desert Palmyra, (probably from 

 the date trees which formerly tlourislicd 

 there), by which name they anniiiilatefl 

 its identity. Til is ridiculous mutation 

 is equally absurd with calling Mr. Fox 

 Maitre Renard, or General Buonaparte 

 General Goodpart; — which two latter 

 names do not so completely anniliilate 

 their i<lentity. 



The exploded absurdity of translat- 

 ing proper names will not, 1 presume, 

 be continued in the 19th century; pro- 

 bably even those, which, through (liis 

 custom, have lost their identity, nuiy 

 be restored. 



In the Arabic translation of the Gos- 

 pels, the name is preserved ,^jma\\ 

 ^^JouJ i, e. Eseua, or ysyua El Mes- 

 siah. The Romans appear to have 

 had a strange propensity to the harsh 

 and unsonorous letters j and s : thus, 

 Yosbuab or Eb-huah fhej- bave made Jesus 

 ElWah Oasis 



In the first tiiey have changed the 

 Greek e into j, and h into s. In the 

 latter, two letters s are substituted for 

 h ; and, by the construction of our 

 language, it becomes necessaiT to add 

 a third hissing letter — an s, to make it 

 plural — Oasises : thus verifying the 

 observations of the Arabian Africans, 

 that the language of Europeans resem- 

 bles the whistling of birds. v^. 



For the Monthly Magazine. 

 Description of ^//e phigaleian mar- 

 bles, being an Analyii.: of the Fourth 

 Part of the Description of the Col- 

 lection of ANCIENT MARBLES in the 

 BRITISH MUSEIM, Just Published 

 bi/ the Trustees of the British Mu- 

 seum, 

 TT^HIS new portion of one of the 

 JL most tasteful works of the present 

 day, consists of a series of engravings, 

 and descriptions of the ancient sculp- 

 tures which adorned the Temple of 

 Apollo, on Moimt Cotylion, a little 

 distance from the ancient city of Phi- 

 galeia, in Arcadia. 



The engravings, with the exception 

 of two views of the temple in aqua- 

 tinta, are in line, and executed in a 

 beautiful style by some of the first ar- 

 tists of the day. The drawings from 

 the sculptures were executed by Mr. 

 Heniy 



