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    plac ^ i , -this Was the natural and o & viotes meaning of the < juestk > n and reply , and tke iittgrptetetion is confirmed ± > y the ltfogtiage of t & e apostles oil a variety of occasions . To deliverance from Jewish superstition and heathen idolatry by embracing Christianity , they uniformly apply the term salvation or being saved . Thus we are told that God will have all

    men to be saved an 4 brought to the knowledge of the truth : where the latter expression explains what is meant by the former . The principal idea included in this salvation was e ^ wlently a deliverance from ignorance , superstition and a false worship * but it seems also to have been connected wkh a

    deliverance from temporal calamities ; for with sush calamities we know that the j , e > ws -were threatened , and actually visited , for their rejection of the gospel , while those who embraced it were preserved safe . On this ground the a ^ xosr le Peter , Acts ii , 40 , exhorts his countrymen to save themselves fro ** n this entoward generation . To similar evils 4 & e heathen

    world might likewise be exposed , if they acted in like manner ; with evils of this nature the gaoler was evidently threatened , when on account of his severity to the preachers of tfhe gospel , his fiouse was shaken from the foundations .

    They might therefore with propriety tell him , that if he believed in Christ , both he and his family would escape xtenger . This , indeed , was not the whole or principal benefit which he would derive from his faith ; but it was all-about which he inquired .

    ** I have dwelt the longer upon this passage , because the interpretation given is unusual , and may probably to some appear harsh : but I am persuaded that a proper consideration of the occasion and of the usual language of the apostles , will reconcile the mind of the attentive inquirer tp it . *

    JYlr , Wakefiji'ld gives the same translation of the phrase with Mr , Ketirick , but understands it in a different sense . The impartial ex-• fimiper , after reading th < p quotation which we have just m & cle , will prob & foly think , as we do , tb ^ t that eniijaeiitly-learned critic bas ( pepresb ^ d himself Witt * too much

    * S $ tf the Notes to his Translation , inloc , f Sec Mar & h'a IViichaeKs * Vol . iv . p . X 83—* 8 ( 5

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    coundenoe . * Iva tru ^ ui ^ to be sa fe , t viz / ' says Mf . Wakefield , 44 to avoid punisAmeuft for what has befallen the pris & ncrs and the prison ; not doubting but those men , who had occasioned such extraordinary events , could

    deliver him from the power of his superiors . This is beyond all doubt the sense of the passage , though Paul , in his reply , uses the words in a more extensive signification a practice common in these writings . " *

    We regard it as a peculiar excellence of the work before us , that it eon tains so many incidental remarks , tending to demonstrate the divine authority of Jesus Christ . Mr , Kenrick , however , has omitted to observe on Acts

    xvii . 32 . ( c 4 And whtn they lieard of the resurrection of the < ieady some mucked , " ) that in addition to the other obst ^ qies with which

    Christianity had to contend ^ in its infancy , it was attacked by ridicule . Acts xviii . 3 . u And because he was of the same craft , of tht same trade he abode witfy them and wrought : ( for by their occupation they were tent-makers / ' ) 1

    " The tents / says Mr . Kenriclc , < c which Paul and his companions were employed in making , were composed of linen or skins , and used as a summer residence in hot climates , by travellers upon their journies , where no other lodging was to be found , and by soldiers in their camps . "

    Michaelis has pointed out several difficulties that attend ; this acceptation of the word cnajvoTTo / o / , and has assigned reasons whiofc deserve to be attentivel y considered , for trans & tiftg it , w makm of mechanical in 6 tfim #$ tit # 9 v f

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1809, page 750, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1707/page/44/