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rassment and interruption in the reasoning. This singulari- 

 ty is a species of digression which may properly, I think, be 

 denominated going off at a word, it is turning aside from 

 the subject upon the occurrence of some particular word, 

 forsaking the train of thought then in hand, and entering 

 npon a parenthetic sentence in which that word is the pre- 

 vailing term. I shall lay before the reader some example.? 

 of this collected from the other epistles, and then propose 

 two examples of it which are found in the epistle to the 

 Ephesians. In 2 Cor. 2 : 14-17, at the word savor : "Now 

 thanks be unto God, which always causeth us to triumph in 

 Christ, and maketh manifest the savor of his knowledge by 

 us in every place. (For we are unto God a sweet savor ol 

 Christ, in them that are saved, and in them that perish : to 

 the one we are the savor of death unto death, and to the 

 other the savor of life unto life. And who is sufficient for 

 these things ?) For we are not as many which corrupt the 

 word of God : but as of sincerity, but as of God, in the sight 

 of God speak we in Christ." Again, 2 Cor. 3 : 1-3, at the 

 word epistle: "Need we, as some others, ejnstles of com- 

 mendation to you, or of commendation from you ? (Ye are 

 our epistle written in our hearts, known and read of all 

 men : forasmuch as ye are manifestly declared to be the 

 epistle of Christ ministered by us, written not with ink, but 

 with the Spirit of the living God : not in tables of stone, but 

 in the fleshly tables of the heart.") The position of the 

 words in the original, shows more strongly than in the trans- 

 lation, that it was the occurrence of the Avord kmaTolrj which 

 gave birth to the sentence that follows : 2 Cor. 3:1. E/ 

 M^ XPV^ofJ'SV, ug TLveg, crvGTanKcJv emaroXuv npog vfiui; ?} e^ v(icJv avcra- 

 ri-cuv; rj entaroTirj r^fiuv vnetg lore, eyysypa^idvrj kv ralg Kap&kug i/fj-cov. 

 ] t yuaKOfih-r} kul uvaytvuaKOfievT] vtto iravruv uv&pQiTuv • cpavspovfievoL Cn i 

 iore E7naT0?i?j Xpiarov 6uiK0vr]-&elaa v^' r/fiuv, ey/Eypa/i[XEvr} ov /.liT^vi, 

 aX^a TTVEvmri Qeov ^uvTog' ovk ev Tzka^l Ic^tvatg, uKK ev irla^l Kapdia^ 

 japtdvaic. 



Again, 2 Cor. 3 : 12, etc., at the word veil • •' Seeing 



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