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wfeAch ^ is , Ladeed h % W # probable ^ that the gneate * p ® $ bot the Expo- ? sit ion , was written before the discourse tp which we have alluded . *! % & Exposition * it will b ^ re membered * was not , in any degree prepared by Mr . Kenrick for the public eye . Mr . Kenriek ' s observations on
Acts i . £ > . are judicious and interesting : — tC A *> d when he bad spoken these things , while they be . , held , he was taken up ; ami a cloud recerved bim out of their sight . "
c All we learn * from this passage is , that J esus , after ascending * into the air , disappeared from the view of his disciples . On this occasion it is natural : to inquire "whither he went and what he is now doing . But on these subjects the history is silent . The common opinion ,
indeed * is that he ascended to some place above the clouds , where God has his peculiar residence , where he holds his court , sits upon a throne , and is su ' r * rounded by angels and other beings , JBut of the existence of such a place , as
a separate , portion of the universe , we may reasonably doubt . Modern discoveries m philosophy have shewn us nothing in the space with which we are surrounded but planets , Jil ^ e the eart h on which we live , moons , comets and stars . The sacred writers do indeed seem to
suppose the existence of such a place as that which has been just described ; but it is rather done to help our conceptions than to represent what is strictly true , an ^ l flight no more to be understood literally than when they speak of the Deity as having hands , and eyes and other
organs of a man , or as moving front place to place . ^ 16 -regard to the place whiah is designed to be the residence of good n * ea after the resurrection , it is probably this earth , after it has undergone certain important revolutions which may W necessary to prepare it for this
purpose . ' * If then there be no local heaven above the clouds , Christ , in ascending , could only go into the air , and never proceed bpyoud < £ be limits of this planet . Accordingly , some have supposed that t - v - ' ¦
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he i $ still on or ntav the earth , a ^ hottgn invisible to us , and thatfhe h employ ed * together with Enoch and Elijah , ift away which we cannot cbmpfehiemf , m promoting the designs of Prtiv idkkk $ e f ^ i specting the Christian church . In don * nrmatiOB of this opinion , they have © k- » served that he appeared several times ii > person to the apostle Paul . * But it must
be remembered that on this subject , this present residence of Christ , we have no- ^ thing but conjecture to ^ uide us ; the * scriptures having been silent , or * a£ most , having only furnished obscure hints . "
Acts ii . 34 . " Whom God hati ^ raised up , having loosed the pains ^ of death , " rather , " the bonds of the graved' - " This' * says Mr . Kenrick , "is a quo * tation from the Psalms in the Greek ver-i
sion , which was commonly-in use in Ji * - dea at this time ; but the Hebrew word signifies either bonds or pains , and the authors of that version preferred th 4 latter , "f In our opinion Ax ;< ra £ roug ta $ woi $ rev $ ava ? Qu should be translated ,
having loosed the birfk-pangs of death * The force and beauty of the passage entirely depend upon this view oi itt See Wak « fieW * s Sylva Critical , tdK it . see , *«**** : Hammond , whp is referred to fci ^ ^ ea rce observes tha t n § QLrme § aA being holden fast ^ in t \\® lat€ at clause of the verse , ** shows fhlit
the senise is bands or cords / ' Tli § criticism is not just . Io this case , the reading should have been , be * cause it was not pv & sifrle that he should be holden vqr cevrevv , by them ; whereas it is vtf . oujrou , by it , that is , by death . In CQ && T + mation of Mr . Wakefield * s
reasonings we may remark that the text is strikingly illustrated by Col . i . 18 . and Rev . i . 4 . where * Jesus Christ , is styled o tffwnrofro'Ktf ? touv vEKgcvv , * the ^ rst- born trbrtl ; the dead : ' and by Rom , viii * 29 *
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1809, page 747, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1707/page/41/
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