Excerpt from Speeches Delivered by the Rev. J. B. M'crea, in the Protestant Conservative Society, on Sept. 4th, 1832, and Feb. 6th, 1833 Upon the 15th v. Of the 3d Genesis, which, like the former passage, is literally from the Douay version, with the exception of a pronoun, we read I will put enmities between thee and the woman, and be tween her seed and thy seed; it shall crush thy head, and thou shalt lie in wait for his heel. In a note upon this verse, which is a thousand-fold more art ful and pernicious than were the worst distortion of the text, we read again from the Douay, It shall crush, zpsa, she, the woman; so divers of the fathers read this place, conformably to the Latin; others read it sprain, viz. The seed. The sense 1s the same; for it is by her seed, Jesus Christ, that the woman crushes the serpent's head. The sense the same, Sir! Why it were as reasonable to make the mother of Noah and the son of Lamech the same per son' as to imake the woman and her.' seed the same thing - (hear, hear). Sir, this bungling attempt to. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.