come to you.”—­Grant’s Latin Gram., p. 72. “Adsum Troius AEneas.”—­Virgil. “Romulus Rex regia arma offero.”—­Livy. “Annibal peto pacem.”—­Id. “Callopius recensui.”—­See Terence’s Comedies, at the end. “Paul, an apostle, &c., unto Timothy, my own son in the faith.”—­1 Tim., i, 2.  Again, if the word God is of the second person, in the text, “Thou, God, seest me,” why should any one deny that Paul is of the first person, in this one? “I Paul have written it.”—­Philemon, 19.  Or this?  “The salutation by the hand of me Paul.”—­Col., iv, 18.  And so of the plural:  “Of you builders.”—­Acts, iv, 11.  “Of us the apostles.”—­2 Pet., iii, 2.  How can it be pretended, that, in the phrase, “I Paul,” I is of the first person, as denoting the speaker, and Paul, of some other person, as denoting something or somebody that is not the speaker?  Let the admirers of Murray, Kirkham, Ingersoll, R. C. Smith, Comly, Greenleaf, Parkhurst, or of any others who teach this absurdity, answer.

OBS. 7.—­As, in the direct application of what are called Christian names, there is a kind of familiarity, which on many occasions would seem to indicate a lack of proper respect; so in a frequent and familiar use of the second person, as it is the placing of an other in the more intimate relation of the hearer, and one’s self in that of the speaker, there is a sort of assumption which may seem less modest and respectful than to use the third person.  In the following example, the patriarch Jacob uses both forms; applying the term servant to himself, and to his brother Esau the term lord:  “Let my lord, I pray thee, pass over before his servant:  and I will lead on softly.”—­Gen., xxxiii, 14.  For when a speaker or writer does not choose to declare himself in the first person, or to address his hearer or reader in the second, he speaks of both or either in the third.  Thus Moses relates what Moses did, and Caesar records the achievements of Caesar.  So Judah humbly beseeches Joseph:  “Let thy servant abide in stead of the lad a bondman to my lord.”—­Gen., xliv, 33.  And Abraham reverently intercedes with God:  “Oh! let not the Lord be angry, and I will speak.”—­Gen., xviii, 30.  And the Psalmist prays:  “God be merciful unto us, and bless us; and cause his face to shine upon us.”—­Ps., lxvii, 1.  So, on more common occasions:—­

   “As will the rest, so willeth Winchester.”—­Shak.

    “Richard of York, how fares our dearest brother?”—­Id.[141]

OBS. 8.—­When inanimate things are spoken to, they are personified; and their names are put in the second person, because by the figure the objects are supposed to be capable of hearing:  as, “What ailed thee, O thou sea, that thou fleddest? thou Jordan, that thou wast driven back? Ye mountains, that ye skipped like rams; and ye little hills, like lambs?  Tremble, thou earth, at the presence of the Lord, at the presence of the God of Jacob.”—­Psalms, cxiv, 5-7.