Footnotes for Lecture IV. Footnote 151: See Note on John xii. Footnote 152: John x. 34-36. Footnote 153: Acts xvii. 30, 31. Footnote 154: 1 Cor. xv. 21, 47. Footnote 155: Acts. x. Footnote 156: Cuvier. See Note 1. Footnote 157: See Note 2. Footnote 158: Lect. pp. 219, 220. Footnote 159: Lect. p. 222. Footnote 160: Lecture, p. 233. Footnote 161: Lecture, p. 244. Footnote 162: Cuvier’s Eloge on Priestley. Footnote 163: No. 126, 1836. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ THE PROPOSITION “THAT CHRIST IS GOD,” PROVED TO BE FALSE FROM THE JEWISH AND THE CHRISTIAN SCRIPTURES. --------------------- PREFACE. The length of the following Discourse rendered it necessary to omit large portions of it in the delivery; the remainder has undergone no alteration in preparing the Lecture for the press. It is one of the duties of the controversialist to drop each subject of debate so soon as everything materially affecting it has been advanced; and to seize the time for silence, as promptly as the time for speech. This consideration would have led me to abstain from any further remarks respecting the Improved Version, did it not appear that it is considered disrespectful to pass without notice any argument adduced by our opponents. In briefly adverting to Mr. Byrth’s strictures on my former Lecture, contained in the preface to his own, I am more anxious to avert from myself the imputation of discourtesy to him than to disprove his charge of “PITIFUL EVASION;” which even the accuser himself, I imagine, cannot permanently esteem just. Notwithstanding the criticisms of my respected opponent, I still maintain that a Subscriber to the British and Foreign Unitarian Association is no more responsible for the alleged delinquencies of the Improved Version, than is a Subscriber to the British and Foreign Bible Society for the known departures from the true standard of the text which its funds are employed to circulate. Mr. Byrth appears to enumerate three particulars, in which he thinks that the parallelism between these two cases fails: