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Excerpt from The Expositor, Vol. 2
But Prof. Ramsay finds me guilty of two further in justices, first to Mr. Turner by my remarkable silence as to his article. This I trust may be somewhat atoned for by the present somewhat detailed discussion of what seems to me the great blemish on an otherwise able and scholarly article, which gave me great pleasure when it appeared by the closeness of its approximation to my own results. The explanation is simple. I could not make use of the article, for the reason that my own articles had already been in the hands of the editor of the expositor for many months and in corrected proof for a considerable time, when Prof. Turner's article appeared. They remained in the same limbo for eighteen months longer, awaiting, as the editor kindly explained to me, an Opportunity when the pressure on the columns of the expositor from Prof. Ramsay's pen should be intermitted.
As to Mr. Lewin, Prof. Ramsay objects that I have treated it as a fault that he has generally placed the first day of Nisan twenty-four hours too early. In reply Prof. Ramsay says, Prof. Bacon assumes the point and urges that Mr. Turner holds that possibly, or even probably, Mr. Lewin places first Nisan too late. As Mr. Turner represents a still further stage of divergence from the real authorities, it is not surprising that he outdoes Mr. Lewin as much as Mr. Lewin outdoes Wieseler.1 But Prof.
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