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t ^ t will bear meanings , to p ^ ef ^ r that whic h gives the noblest ettrf jnost extensive sense , and txii ^ hf make the passage in question most universally useful /'* It is almost heedless to remark that
the deliberate inquirer into the true sense and spirit of the sacred writers can expect to derive lit * tie assistance in his pursuits , from & commentary which is avowedly formed ^ on so wild and preposterous a principle .
Mr . Kenrick well explains the teem atvxyKctcroVy in the parable of the marriage-supper , Luke xi v . 23 , ( compel Mem to come in , ) as expressive of " earnest persuasion by reason and argument / ' Those
who infer from this passage the propriety of employing violence in defence of what they apprehend to be the true faith , should remember , as our author very pertinently observes , that it was to a feast the servant was directed to
bring them , to which it is not usual to force men , although it may be common to entreat and press them . Nor was one servant alone'Strong enough to force in a great number of beggars against their will . Moreover , Christ is said to have compelled ( Matt .
xiv . 22 , yvayKcx . < rs ) his disciples to go into a ship , although he neither drove nor thrust them into it but employed exhortation or tae Influence of his authority for that purpose . JUuke xix . 12 , €€ He said therefore , a certain nobleman went
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into a far country to receive for himself a kingdom arfd to reiura *?
«• In this part of the par able , ** ' we ar * told " there is an allusion to the custom which prevailed in Judea and some $ > f the neighbouring countries , for jinfy kings to go to Rome , to have their rig hr£ to the throne confirmed by the emperor ^ and to receive his protection . ** *
It might have been observed that in thev machinery of the pa * rable there is a reference not merely to the general cuftom of th ^ Jews 5 but to the particular case of Archelaus who * a few yearti before , went to Rome to receive
from the hands of Augustus ^ the kingdom left him by his father ' s will ) and , on his return , called to account all who , in his absence had been wanting in their duty * and severely punished such as had rebelled against him . This incident was , of course , well known to the Jews . See Le Clerc
on Hammond , in loc . It was our Lord's constant practice to deduce lessons of instruction from the occurrences 6 f life and from objects that were before his eyes . There
are many very beautiful and striking observations on this subject in Bishop Law ' s " Considerations /' P . 3 l 5 & c . Carlisle Edition . Luke x ^ iii . 31 * " For if thQj do tj * ese things In a green tree ., what shall be done in the dry ? * f * These words , " says Mr . Kenrick , " have been thus paraphrased :- —If divln * Providence , for wise ends , permits thi « suffering to befal me , who am an inno ^
cent person ; so that there is no mor * apparent propriety in nay being * a bandoned to this fate than in i > reen woojl being employed for fuel ; What will be done to you , whose vices render you a * ripe for destruction , a * dry wood U £ U for burning . "f >
• « Family Expositor . ' * Preface to Vol . itf * ^ Prieitley ^ Harmpvj * i ^
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Review . —Kentick ' s Exposition * 73 f
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1809, page 739, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1707/page/33/
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