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cf its " simplicity and uniformity / and . because ^ " it is founded upon the apostle ' s own words in the beginning of his epistles . " " According to this / ' he observes , " the sacred historian , in the introduction
to his narrative , gives us an abstract or outline of the history which he is about to write , as . is usual with other historians in entering upon their work ; or just in the
same mariner as a painter first draws a sketch or outline of the picture wjiich he afterwards fills up . " John ii . 10 . < % Jesus answered
and said unto them , Destroy this temple , and in three days I will raise it up /' As Jesus seems here to tpeak of the rebuilding of the temple as his own act , some have hence
inferred that he raised himself from the dead , and because his resurrection is in other parts of the New Testament attributed to God , this passage has been adduced as a proof that he is the eternal God . Mr . Kenrick shews that th ^ se
conclusions are unauthorized , because similar expressions are used by our Lord , where no one thinks of giving them such aa interpretation . Thus Matt . x . 39- " He that loseth his life for my sake shall find it . " Mark viii . 35 ,
cc Whosoever shall lose his Life for iriy sake and the gospel's , the fcame shall save ? it . " Luke xvii . 3 & . ** YVhosQever shall lose his life shall preserve it / ' In the last passage the word ( ZcvoyovrjcrEi ) translated shall preserve , signifies shall produce a living creature . As in these instances the man who
gives up life is said to find it p-g ^ in , # nd to produce a living bejnjfr , although this is manifestly bbybnid ' the power of a , dead body , ¦ M ti & ' ilkd $ t ho the work of God
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in its behalf ; so Christ may say that when the temple is destroyed he will raise it again , when he only means that it wilt be raised for him again by God . This ii * lustration appears to us to be iU > less satisfactory than it is
ingenious , and . as far as we know , it ou * , and , as far as we know , it has not been suggested by any preceding commentator . From John x . 17 JS , the in * frrence has also been drawn , that our Lord ' s resurrection was
the effect of bis ftwn power * The original , as Mr . Kenrick ob «« serves , warrants no such eonclu * sion . The literal rendering of the p « ssage is , / 'Therefore doth rny Father love me , because I lay down my life that I may reqeivo
\ ccpM it again . No man takeih . it from me , but I lay it down o£ myself . I have authority s % ov , < riait to lay it down , and I have authority s£ ovclolv to receive \ oc / 3 eiv it again . This commission . a ^ roXyjy ( that is , the authority , before
mentioned- ) have I received sXat ^ 3 ov of my Father . ' * Our Lord ' s meaning is , that his death wa & voluntary . His language is illustrated by what he says to Peter , who had just been employing his sword in defence of his Master 1
" rhinkest thou that I cannot pra ) y to my Father , and he shall presently give me twelve legi on ^ of angels ? —implying that it was in his power to avoid death , by the assistance of his Father , hail he been disposed to avail himself of it .
JVlr . Kenrick ' s comment oa John iii . | 3 . is so acute and yet so unaffectedly , simple , that wo cannot withhold it from our rea * dera . v t _ "And no man hath asceridfcd up to heaven , but he that cai > j «
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1809, page 743, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1707/page/37/
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