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    3 > T & e hypothesis in question is likewise strengthened by observing that Barabbas , whom the Jews preferred to \ Jesus , is called by the evangelist John , -a Yobber ^ whereas by Luke he is said to be Cast into prison for sedition and murder . In this sedition arid murder the two men were probably his accomplices .

    4 . The malefactor who rebtiked the insolence of his fellow-sufferer , discovers a knowledge of the life and character of Jesus , which is hardly consistent with his being a common robber ; bat which

    might well be expected from a man of a religious turn of mind , who had taken up arms upon mistaken principles respecting the sovereignty and independence of the Jewish nation : cc This man

    hath done nothing amiss . " Without some supposition of this kind , it will be difficult to account for that faith irvJesus , as the Messiah , which he discovers in the 42 d

    verse . " And he said unto . Jesus , Master , remember me when thou Comest to thy kingdom : " alluding to that temporal authority with which he conceived it to be the

    intention of Providence to invest our Lord . As he was conscious of being actuated by good intentions in his past conduct , although guilty of som « £ criminal excesses ( verse 4 JL ) he might With propriety hope for some marks of the favour of Christ , and Christ might with propriety bestow them .

    In Dr . Jortin ' s Senivon , entitled " The Penitent Thiefy" ( vol . iii . No . iv . ) the reader will find some good remarks which serve to confirm this interpretation . Mr . Ken rick's explanation oi | ' ' Me 43 dve ^ € f is in hisusbal style . ** And Jesus said utuo hijn

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    Veril y I say uiito thee \ O-dny shal-t thou be uritti me in iparadise . " *• In answer to the request of thfe penitent malefactor , Christ promises th * t he should be in the same state with himself on that day / In order , therefore , to determine where this man was to be , > ve have only to consider where Christ was . Now it is evident from the

    history that Christ died on that day , and was laid in the grave ; yet he Jay there under the smiles of heaven , and with the certainty of a resurrection The meaning of Christ then , as illus ' rated by the fact , could be no more than that-he should go to the state of the righteous dead ; to pious men of former ages ,

    where he should lie m hope of a resurrection . Agreea Jy to this notion it has been observed that according , to the opinion of the' Je ws , Paradise was that part of the habitation of the dead which was assigned to righteous and good men . This , Jesus might well promise

    to him , because he discerned in him some promising dispositions , and was convinced , from what Kenow observed , and from the miraculous knowledge which he had of his character , that the conduct for which he was suffering was to be ascribed rather to the

    erroucoMsnes . s of his principles than to the depravity of his heart . That Chribt could not mean to promise this man that he should be with him that day in ( leave n , is evident hence : —That Christ di 4 not go thither that day himself ; for it was some time after his resurrection before

    he ascended into heaven . That the soul of Chri & t , whether it were that of a man or a superajngelic spirit , quitted his body at his death , ascended into heaven , the residence of the blessed , continued there three day > , and descended from heaven again to re-animate his body , is a supposition which cannot be admitted

    without sortie evidence , of which this passage affords none . w Some have supposed that Christ , on this occasion , intended to say , to-day thou art certain of a place w \ th me in heaven : it is a thing already done and

    determined ; * he words to-day being constantly used of any matter then fired , settled or declared , though not to commence till some months or even ages after . So , * in tfi $ 4 ay ifiim fptesf there > fp thou shalt surely ' die . ' . * Hear , O Israel , tfrou art to pas » over Jordan & ti ' Jay £

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1809, page 741, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1707/page/35/