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814 Dr. Wmngh^s Memoirs.
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MEMOIR OF THE REV. ALEXANDER WAUGH, D. D...
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Sir, That Part Of The Sixtieth Canon Of ...
and life 9 ant ! Christ is called the light and the Iife 9 sinfce he is the channel of conveyance , having the words of eternal life , and so beisig the light of the worldo I a like manner , God is declared to be the Logos in the abstract , since he is the source of all truth , of all revelation ; a ^ d Christ is called Logos , as the channel , through wliom the truth has been revealed : for the eKpression 3 the Word became flesh , corresponds clearly with the expressions the life was made manifest , and the light came into the world . If the double use and application of the same word Logos , seems strange to us , it is only because our language wants a word , which , like the Greek
word , expresses both thought and the utterance of the thought , the divine reason ^ and speech through which it is revealed * By keeping in view this two-fold meaning and double application of the word , we shall have little difficulty in understanding the whole introduction of John : and if in any part the clear exposition of it must be paraphrastical , this arises solely from our want of a word equivalent to Logos , which is applied abstractedly to God , as the light , the life , the truth , the logos , the source of revelation , and in its other meaning to Christ , the light , the life , the truth , the logos , the channel of Divine revelation .,
The Professor finds Jhis exposition confirmed by the history of the use of the phrasej , the word of God ,, in more ancient times . The act of God in creating was regarded as analogous to the act of man in speaking . Hemce we rea < d , Wis * ix . 19 6 G By thy word thou hast made all things ; " and in the Hebrews , The worlds were made by the word of God . " This thought was amplified in the Chaldee paraphrast , and Philo made use of it to construct a way for connecting Platonic notions with the Old Testament . It is plain that in the third and tenth verses , 6 t All things were made by it , the Logos ; it was in the world , and the world was made by it ; " the Evangelist had in his thoughts the creative word of God , or God creating all things by his word , and we may be sure , through the association of ideas , that by the Logos , in the first verse , he meant the same thing . J . M .
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814 Dr . Wmngh ^ s Memoirs .
Memoir Of The Rev. Alexander Waugh, D. D...
MEMOIR OF THE REV . ALEXANDER WAUGH , D . D . *
Memoir Of The Rev. Alexander Waugh, D. D...
We beg to recommend to our readers a new mefLhod of reading , or at least of beginning , a book of biography ; a method which we congratulate ourselves on Ihaving discovered , as it saves us from various perplexities and errors into which we were formerly led by biographers in general , and especially by reverend biographers . We begin , as directed by Dr . Watts , with the title-page , and then proceed to the table of contents , in order to ascertain "What there is original—of letters , journals , or sermons—in the volume . Then we turn back to the portrait , if there be one , then forward agairV ' "to th £ letters ; and having compared the physiognomy with the correspondence sf >( , as to form our own notions of the tone of mind and spirits of our subject ,, we prepare to hear what the biographer has to say- There is po Qthej- way of understanding the subject presented , for it might safely
fe " A Memoir of tlie Kcv . Alexander Waugh , D . IX With Selections from his Epistolary Correspondence , Pulpit Hccollectious , <& e . By Rev . Junues Hay , IYI . A ., and Rev . Henry Belfirage , 1 ) . D . Hamiltoni , Adams , and Co . London . 1830 .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1830, page 814, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/mrp_02121830/page/14/
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