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who knew nothing of the evangelical creed, and who had before him only the phrases in which they are used?
Consulting the dictionary, I found that the word KptVw had several different meanings, among the most used being "to condemn in a court of jus tice," and even " to condemn to death," but in no instance did it signify " to speak evil." I con sulted a dictionary of New Testament Greek, and found that was often used in the sense " to con demn in a court of justice," sometimes in the sense "to choose," never as meaning "to speak evil." From which I inferred that the word KptVoo might be translated iu different ways, but that the rendering "to speak evil" was the most forced and far fetched.
I searched for the word KaraSiKa^oj, which follows KptVw, evidently to define more closely the sense in which the latter is to be understood. I looked for KaraStKa^w in the dictionary, and found that it had no other signification than "to condemn in judg ment," or "to judge worthy of death." I found that the word was used four times in the New Tes tament, each time in the sense " to condemn under sentence, to judge worthy of death." In James (v. G) we read, " Ye have condemned and killed the just." The word rendered "condemned" is this same KaraStKa^w, and is used with reference to Jesus, who was condemned to death by a court of justice. The word is never used iu any other sense, in the
