Blacklock's translation of Horace's "Justum," is admirable; superior to Addison's. Could David be translated as well, his superiority would be universally acknowledged. We cannot compare the sublime poetry. By Virgil's "Pollio," we may conjecture there was prophecy as well as sublimity. Why have those verses been annihilated? I suspect Platonic Christianity, Pharisaical Judaism or Machiavilian politics, in this case, as in all other cases, of the destruction of records and literary monuments, The auri sacra fames, et dominandi sæva cupido. Among all your researches in Hebrew history and controversy, have you ever met a book the design of which is to prove that the ten commandments, as we have them in our Catechisms and hung up in our churches, were not the ten commandments written by the finger of God upon tables delivered to Moses on Mount Sinai, and broken by him in a passion with Aaron for his golden calf, nor those afterwards engraved by him on tables of stone; but a very different set of commandments? There is such a book, by J. W. Goethen, Schriften, Berlin 1775-1779. I wish to see this book. You will perceive the question in Exodus, 20: 1, 17, 22, 28, chapter 24: 3, &c.; chapter 24: 12; chapter 25: 31; chapter 31: 18; chapter 31: 19; chapter 34: 1; chapter 34: 10, &c. I will make a covenant with all this people. Observe that which I command this day: 1. Thou shalt not adore any other God. Therefore take heed not to enter into covenant with the inhabitants of the country; neither take for your sons their daughters in marriage. They would allure thee to the worship of false Gods. Much less shall you in any place erect images. 2. The feast of unleavened bread shalt thou keep. Seven days shalt thou eat unleavened bread, at the time of the month Abib; to remember that about that time, I delivered thee from Egypt. 3. Every first born of the mother is mine; the male of thine herd, be it stock or flock. But you shall replace the first born of an ass with a sheep. The first born of your sons shall you _redeem_. No man shall appear before me with empty hands. 4. Six days shalt thou labor. The seventh day thou shalt rest from ploughing and gathering. 5. The feast of weeks shalt thou keep with the firstlings of the wheat harvest; and the feast of harvesting at the end of the year. 6. Thrice in every year all male persons shall appear before the Lord. Nobody shall invade your country, as long as you obey this command. 7. Thou shalt not sacrifice the blood of a sacrifice of mine, upon leavened bread. 8. The sacrifice of the Passover shall not remain till the next day. 9. The firstlings of the produce of your land, thou shalt bring to the house of the Lord. 10. Thou shalt not boil the kid, while it is yet sucking. And the Lord spake to Moses: Write these words, as after these words I made with you and with Israel a covenant.