carried on in the Classical Journal. But all was fair discussion, without -personal invective. But he has lately been assailed by the weapons of bitter hostility, and nothing but his utter ruin seems to satisfy the wishes of his enemies. We are as far as any of them from assenting to every part of his Translation; but we must, in the spirit of candor and humanity, deprecate every attempt to injure his interest and his character. Let them strike at his arguments, but let them hear his defence. The present work is written, with the same intention of defending the Holy Scriptures against the artful insinuations of infidels. Some articles in his Vindication have been already published by other writers in the cause of truth and revelation. But either new, or placed in a new light. As the work is rapidly running through a third edition, we shall present our readers with only one extract. OBJECTION. many are "The DEIST brings two solemn charges against David when he was on his death-bed: the first is absolutely false as it stands in the authorised versions; the second is not true according to the Hebrew. He says, "But what shall we think of this Nero of the Hebrews, this man after God's own heart, this idol of the Christians, when we see him die in a manner uniform and consistent with the whole course of his life? What will be our reflections, when we find him with his last accents delivering two cruel and inhuman murders in charge to his son Solomon? murders, still farther aggravated by the included crimes of ingratitude and perjury.! One of them to be executed on his old and faithful general Joab, who powerfully assisted him on all occasions, and who adhered to him in all his extremities, till the last, but who, notwithstanding, had not appeared in actual hostility against him, but only drank a glass of wine with the malcontents. His other charge was against Shimea, who reviled David at his retreat from Jerusalem, during his son Absalom's rebellion, but who made his submission when he returned victorious, and whose pardon David had sealed with a solemn oath." ANSWER. I will beg the attention of the reader to the "included crime of ingratitude" toward Joab, In the first place, Joab had been guilty of the crime of murder; he had murdered two captains of the host who stood in the way of his glory, and thus "shed the blood of war in peace," 1 Kings ii. 5. He had also committed another murder; the king had commanded that his son Absalom should not be put to death; but in defiance of this command of his sovereign, he murdered the royal youth. And notwithstanding all these murders, David sought not to take his life. Now I will refer the reader to the crime of Joab, which the DEIST palliates by saying, it was "only drinking a glass of wine with the malcontents." But previously I should show the reader what was the real charge of David to Solomon respecting Joab. The translation is perfectly correct, viz. "But let not his hoar-head go down to the grave in peace." From this expression, the DEIST supposes that David charged Solomon to murder Joab. Solomon however had succeeded to the throne, and Joab joined in the cause of Adonijah in rebellion against Solomon, ver. 28. and when Joab heard that the king and the people had made Solomon king, he knew that he had transgressed the law, which was death. David did not charge Solomon to murder him, "to bring down his hoar-head to the grave with blood;" but "not to suffer him to go down to the grave in peace;" the meaning of which phrase is, that he was pot to hold him guiltless, but to keep a watch over his actions. The second charge which the DEIST brings against David is perjury and murder. In the common version of 1 Kings ii. 9. it is said; "But his hoar-head bring thou down to the grave with blood." A very different charge from that respecting Joab: nevertheless we shall find that the charge given to Solomon by David respecting Shimea, was not to murder him, but to save his life after David's decease. It is only the DEIST who brings this charge against David, being guided by the error made in the translation. The translators have omitted the translation of the negative: the clause when truly rendered, reads-" Neither bring thou down his hoar-head with blood to the grave." It is therefore so far from being true that David sought the death of Shimea, commanded Solomon to kill him, that on the contrary, mindful of his oath, he laid his injunctions on Solomon also to keep it in memory; and the history proves the fact. 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