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. 1855 Excerpt: ...with a plural verb (as, e.g., Gen. xx. 13; xxxv. 7, etc.), the plural of the original is left out altogether in the Chinese translation; and both Shin and its verb are then intended to remain in the singular! And, thirdly, --if it be alleged that, since Shin means "Spirits," and "God is a Spirit," Shin is therefore an ...
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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. 1855 Excerpt: ...with a plural verb (as, e.g., Gen. xx. 13; xxxv. 7, etc.), the plural of the original is left out altogether in the Chinese translation; and both Shin and its verb are then intended to remain in the singular! And, thirdly, --if it be alleged that, since Shin means "Spirits," and "God is a Spirit," Shin is therefore an appropriate term for "God," that appears to us, either begging the question, or blinking it altogether. Since it is evident that the reason that "God is a Spirit," is also the very reason why Shin, "Spirits," should not be chosen to render "God" into Chinese., For, although we believe, as taught by our Saviour Himself, whose words "were Spirit and Life," that "God Is A Spirit," whom we humbly seek to "serve in spirit and in truth," while we "walk not after the flesh but after the Spirit," and "through the Spirit" endeavour "to mortify the deeds of the body;" yet we cannot overlook the fact that, as God was to be worshipped by mortal men of limited minds, He, in mercy to their infirmity, did not introduce Himself to them as "a Spirit," indefinite and inappreciable, which no human mind can rightly understand or fully grasp. But He made Himself known to His people, by speaking of Himself, at first, as of " a Person," rn-6tnwt?, figuratively " endowed" with a "Spirit" emanating from Him; and with active energies compared to those of men. Without some such definite "outline" or "idea" of God, His own people even, much less others, could not have continued faithful to Him. For we find that, even immediately after having trembled at His voice speaking from Sinai, they could ...
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