impurity, and remorfe; nor pledge her hand where, though the muft obey, the can neither love nor honour. errors are, in the fame ftrong fenfi inopera AN pore. life; ny of wat is never p ms of contention, and the preffure of buinek, it an yap trabity which, however faited to the rude buffets that it is defigned to endure, prevent its being made malleable by the eft ftrokes of feminine influence. Whatever feif "wills to do, feems," in its own eftination, "wifeft, virtuoufeft, difcreeteft, beit." If we attempt to remodel the lords of the creation, we muit begin before they have difcarded that emblem of fubjection, a petticoat. Infidelity is frequently coupled with licentious conduct; but fometimes it doffs its grofs affociates, and affects the dignity of moral virtue. The woman who regards her eternal interefts, and thofe of her future offspring, will tremble at fubmitting to the fuperintendance of a man whofe dark and cheerless mind is unil. lumined by vifions of a better world. Even if the had good grounds to rely on the virtue, tenderness, and generosity of fuch a partner (which I greatly doubt); even if the be previoufly af fured that he will never feek to unfettle her faith, to reftrain her devout exercifes, or to interfere with the religious education of his children; even if the know that he always will pay an out. ward refpect to faith and piety, and oftenfibly comply with its forms though affured that no word will ever efcape him, which fhall betray his fecret contempt and incredulity (what impoffibi: lities am I now admitting); if her fears are lulled, can her af fection fleep? can fhe be happy, while the views in her kind and faithful partner, her bofom.friend, the father of her children, the fource of all her earthly happiness, a rebel to his God, the self-de. voted for. of perdition, from whom, after death, she must hope to be eternally disjoined, and to whom she must wish annihilation as a blefling? The text, that "the believing wife fanctifies the uni "believing hufband," has no reference to the cafe that we are confidering, but to the early fituation of Chriftian converts, when baptifm did not diffolve the bonds either of marriage or fervi. tude, but the new members of the Chriftian church continued to dif. charge the obligations which they had contracted in their Gentile ftate, and this with additional carneftness, as a proof of their obedience to their heavenly Mafter. When we thus pervert fcripture, to ftrengthen the temptations of avarice, ambition, fenfual attachment, or from any other finifter motive, we imitate the conduct of the Prince of Darkness, who is never fo dangerpus to our fouls, as when he wields "the fword of the fpirit, even the word of God." Surely it is far better that "the rofe fhould wither on the virgin thorn," than that its tender leaves fhould be defiled, and excoriated, by being bound up with the filthy briers of vice or infidelity. "Next to thefe dreadful affociates, let the candidate for the wreath of connubial happiness steadily reject the offerings of inSuperable folly. There is a ftrangely erroneous jumble of ideas refpecting a fuppofed combination of docility, good-nature, and weaknefs of intellect, in the minds of fome people, who are deplorably ignorant of life and manners. Folly is always felfish and obftinate; and I take these to be the ftandard compofitions of ill-nature, not of amiability. Can narrownefs of intellect be capable of thofe enlarged and difinterefted views which produce good-will to all mankind, which refine the tender attentions of love, and invigorate the indelible impreffions of friendship? Can the fool forget his own dear felf fo far as to be truly benevolent; can he learn felf-denial; can he be convinced of his own infirmi ties, and set about reforming them? If you anfwer in the affirmative, you prove him not to be a fool." Vol. iii. P. 111. The thirteenth letter communicates fome excellent re- ' marks on the duty of mothers; the fourteenrh is on the no lefs interefting fubje&t of our duty, that is the duty of females to fervants and inferiors; the fifteenth and concluding difcuffes the duty of declining life and old age. Our opinion of the writer is certainly rather increased than diminished by this laft work. We however repeat our caution about her ftyle, and our hope that the praise fhe has defervedly obtained may not relax her exertions to deferve it. We could eafily juftify by numerous examples the flight cenfure, we have thought proper to intimate above. We hall only cite two paffages; vol, i. p. 13. we read thus, "While the fprightly fpinter waits till the coquetish wife difiniffes her wearied Cecifbeo, to yawn out an unmeaning compliment to the immature attractions of nineteen, fhe muft confole her chagrin by refolving to take the first offer that fhe can meet with, provided the creature poffeffes the requifites of wealth and fashion to enable her to revenge her prefent wrongs on the paft generation of beauties, and in her turn to triumph over the fucceeding," After twice reading the above we confefs ourselves una, ble to comprehend its meaning. Again vol. 3. p. 200. "Let her not be too anxious to form an infant Crichton; the will act more wifely in proportioning the stream of information to the capacity of the recipient, than by drowning the judgment through the flood-gates of memory. What is this but affectation? neverthelefs with thefe and a few other exceptions, the prefent volumes will be ftandard books, as indeed they ought, in the clafs to which they properly belong. ART. III. The Book of the Prophet Ifaiah, in Hebrew and CHAE English, &c. &c. [Continued from p. 479.] HAP. XXIII. 13. Dr. Stock... "Behold the land of the Chaldeans: -Even these have reduced her to a ruin.” "This people was not till the Affyrian founded it, for them that dwelt in the wilderness ;and he brought it to ruin." Pub. verf. In the common tranflation the reader is led to imagine that the Affyrian reduced to ruin that which he founded; whereas the Prophet meant to tell us that a people then fo contemptible in their origin, and on whofe rife to notice among the nations the Affyrian monarch was the fupporter, were the inftruments of the defolation of Tyre. A fimilar phrafeology is employed by St. Peter:-" Which in time paft were not a people." "O or haòs. 1 Pet. ii. 10. & Chap. xxiv. 3, 4. "For Jehovah hath pronounced this word. Mourning, withering is the land, languishing, withering is the world." Dr. Stock. "The earth mourneth and fadeth away; the world lan guifheth and fadeth away." Pub. verf. We ftop here only to mark the happy effect of observing the Hebrew arrangement, that there is a life and energy far furpaffing the common tranflation, which, being clogged by conjunctions unneceffarily fupplied, must make the words move heavily. Mourning, withering is the land," &c. V. 10. "The city is broken down, a void.” Dr. Stock. "The city of confusion is broken down." Pub. vers. Our tranflators have followed the Maforetes, who have joined the words by the maccaph in this manner, city of confufion. Inftead of city governing the word confufion, Dr. Stock underftands it as in appofition. "The city is broken down; become a chaos." V. 15. Wherefore in the ifles glorify ye Jehovah, in the ifles of the fea." Dr. Stock. Wherefore glorify the Lord in the fires.". Pub. verf. Some have understood by 8a, glorify Jehovah in those countries where Chriflianity is profeffed in its pureft form. In two MSS. of the Septuagint, it is read, iv rais vnoois, “in the islands;" from which it would feem that they had in their Hebrew copy sa Beiime · Chap. xxv. 8, "He fhall deftroy death for ever.". Dr. Stock. vets. "He shall fwallow up death in victory." Pub. verf. We conceive that the prophet of exprefs purpose employed a rather than 18, the firft fignifying deglutire, the fecond, perdere;, becaufe death feemed to be that monfter which till Iwallowed up, through every age, the children of Adam, devouring, as Young expreffes it, his 'thonfands at a meal." This fenfe the Apoftle Paul has expreffed, Kateπάθη ο Θάνατος εἰς νίκος, 1 Corinth. xv. 54. Chap. xxvi. 13, 14. "O Jehovak, our God, other Lords have ruled over us befide thee. "They are dead, they fhall not live; deceased, they shall not rife." Dr. Stock... < The Pub. verfion is nearly the fame. To the English reader, dead and deceafed mark no difference of meaning, but not fo, to a Hebrew, the two words Rephaim and Methim. This refers to the body, that to the foul. The Adonim that the prophet here complains of, were not those who had at any time exercised over them any temporal domination, but the idol gods of the nations, who were once mortals, but now by fuperftition deified. The worfhip of these had, by Ahaz, in oppofition to the pious part of the Jews, been introduced into the land of Judah. So unlike to the true God, the prophet pronounces they are dead. Such vicious characters, that he fays they are rephaim, reprobate; they fhall not rife. This laft expreffion feems to deny the refurrection of the wicked, although the contrary is exprefsly affirmed, Dan. xii. 2. But the verb p Kum, fignifies not only to rife, but to ftand with approbation; and fo it is rendered in Pfal. i. The ungodly fhall not, . 66 ftand ftand in the judgment." p Lo Jekamu. So the word ought to have been rendered here, and then the amount would have been, that although raised, they were never, as being rephaim, to lift up their heads in expectation of any redemption. V. 19. "Thy deceafed fhall live; my dead bodies fhall arife." Dr. Stock. "Thy dead men fhall live; together with my dead body fhall they arife." Pub. verf. Buxtorf, along with our tranflators, underftands na in the fingular. My dead body. Admitting it to be in the plural, yet being feminine, it cannot be nominative to the verb pop Jekamun, which is mafculine. Chap. xxvii. 6. "The days are coming when Jacob shall take root; when Ifrael fhall bloffom and bud." Dr. Stock. "He fhall caufe them that come of Jacob to take root. Ifrael fhail bloffom and bud." Pub, verf, ,,, The common verfion is uncommonly harfh. It views the participle Dan Habboim, as in the conftructed state with Jacob, and yet preferving the abfolute form. Amidít the exifting difficulty, the emendation of both prelates is excellent. Dr. Stock fuppofes, that to Habboim, "coming," days has been formerly joined, but now loft. Dr. Lowth adopts the Syriac lection, which has read ww from the root; he takes the 1 from the front of me and joins it to the end of the preceding verb, in this way, which then becomes a plural, and affumes habboim as its nominative. "They who fpring from the root of Jacob fhall bloffom," &c. Chap. xxviii. 4. Even the proud crown of the drunkards of Ephraim fhall be as the early fig before fummer, which he eyeth whoever feeth it." Dr. Stock. verf. "Which, when he that looketh upon it feeth it." Pub. Dr. Lowth adopts the ingenious emendation of Houbigant, which confifts merely in the tranfpofition of a letter, reading be fhall pluck, inftead of n he fhall fee. Which we prefer to the prefent reading. Chap. xxix. 13. "And their fear toward me is a leffon taught by the precepts of men." Dr. Stock. Similar to this is the public verfion.-Instead of 'n the feventy appear to have read in Vatobu, which they render Hazy. nky, taking the infinitive alfo as a fubftantive, |