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All the commentators , as far as % ve have had an opportunity of examining , agree in giving this interpretation-, * but they seem to Uj > to have misapprehended the purport of the text , which we conceive to be as follows : — 46 If the
Jews are guilty ot these excesses ( sv rev vygcv Zuacc ) while their state
Is comparatively flourishing , to what iicts of desperation will they not be driven ( sv rev ^ qco ) when its prosperity is at an end , and it is on the eve of destruction ? '
Matt iii . 10 . is strongly illustrative of the passage . And now also the axe is laid to the root of the trees & c . The gramma- * tical construction appears to
require this sense . Besides a tree is a more expressive image of external condition , whether happy or otherwisej than of moral character : and thus we understand
the metaphor in Ps . i . 3 . Hos . xiv . 6 . Jer . xvii . 8 . Job . xv . 32 . Nor does Ezekiel xx . 47 militate against this interpretation , since " every green tree and every
dry tree" is by no means necessatily to be explained as descriptive of" the righteous and the zvicked , " mentioned in the 4 th verse of the
Jiext chapter . The account given by Josephus of the unparalleled cruelties which preceded the taking of Jerusalem , places in a most affecting light our compassionate Saviour ' s address in this verse and in those immediately before it , to the " multitude which bewailed
And lamented him : " ** Daughters of Jerusalem ^ weep not for mc ^ but weep for yourselves ami your children . The account which Mr . Ken-
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nek gives of the two m ^ n . wfio were crucified with our Lorcl , Luke xsiii . 39—43 , w \) Vf convince every impartial reader that he possessed high qualiMentions as an interpreter of the sacred volume . He maintains that they
were not such persons as we usually understand by the term malefactors , that i . % they were neither house-breakers nor highwaymen ; but belonged to a class of Jews wfjo took up arms upon the
princi p le that it was not lawful to pny tribute to Caesar , and plundered the Romans in return for the tribute which they exacted . His arguments , which we
must content ourselves with stating as briefly as possible , are , in our opinion , sufficient to prove the point . 1 . It is remarkable that Jose *
phus calls those who were engaged in these insurrections , robbers the same name which the evangelists have given to ihe two male factors .
2 . The language of one of the malefactors , though used in deri - sioiij favours this view of the sub . ject . The Roman soldiers had ridiculed the kingly power of
Jesus , saying , " If thou be the king of the Jews , save thyself / ' In this mockery cne of the malefactors joined , adding such sentiments as his own circumstances suggested , " If thou be the Christ , save thyself and us : " in other words ,
u If thou be appointed to deliver the Jews from the Roman yoke , save thyself from thy present situation , and rescue us who , Hke thee , are suffering for our attempt * to throw off that yoke //
* There is a Setxnton by Dr , Jortin on thia text , which he explain * ia itsi $ 0 W j « oji acceptation . Vol . vii . No , 1 . - * .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1809, page 740, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1707/page/34/
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