On Sun, 17 Feb 2002 16:04:32 +0100, "Benedikte Brisson"
<dikte@paradis.dk> wrote:
>> The Unitarian fiend expel
>> And chase his doctrine back to hell
>
>Jeg har fundet et link via google, jeg kan godtnok ikke få det til at virke,
>men her er det:
www.ccel.org/b/bett/methhymns/methhymns/A3.htm .
Google er din ven, og når links rådner er Google Cache din ven. Fra
samme side (gemt i Google's cache) findes følgende:
Remarks have often been ignorantly made on the bitter intolerance of
these lines, which many have understood as referring to the teaching
of those whom we now call Unitarians. The fact is, of course, that
they refer solely to Mahometanism. The hymn is headed, in the
Collection of 1780, 'For the Mahometans' (in the pamphlet in which it
was originally published, 'For the Turks'), and it is full of specific
allusions to Mahomet, 'That Arab-thief, as Satan bold, Who quite
destroyed Thine Asian fold.' The use of of Unitarian in reference to
Moslem doctrine is quite correct, and, in the eighteenth century, was
quite common. Gibbon, in describing the rise of Islam, refers again
and again to the march of the Unitarian armies, the advance of the
Unitarian banners. Those Christians who deny the Divinity of Christ
were always called Socinians in Wesley's time; it was only at the end
of the eighteenth century that they began to be generally called
Unitarians. Indeed the next hymn but one to this in the Hymns of
Intercession for all Mankind (1758), is entitled 'For the Arians,
Socinians, Deists, Pelagians, &c.'
Lars Erik