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$ it On the Temptation of Christ *—Letter 1 V ^
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Wer devil ; first in tHe wilderness q £ Jor 4 a 4 U ftexfc' upon the top of tfof ^ tn $ GyQi Jerusalem , & nd at
Ja & t , ipc ^ n ^ thigh mountain ^ and ^ fteil rfr ^ y ^ Ung ^' - -to such distant places , i€ jura again ta that from wfc ^ Sl ^ ke ^ eJri ^ at firet ?" red
^ J l ^ v & jj ^ endeavp u to state as plearjy as -Lean * what , according ^ $ ® F present view of things , fcr & l the maostu inaterial errors in Mit . C ?«^ explication of the story
o | . < piiigUt ? $ temptation in the wiltj ^ rness > i _ , jit may therefore be expfCted * that I should here bring tj * e # * together ^ especially since as to * tAc most essential article of
hi ? : fr ^ jpP ^ hssis , viz . that which makes the temptation of Christ to h ^ ye bee n : the growth of his own mind , th $ spontaneous produce of his thoughts / ' I profess to have lojig adopted a scheme of
int ^ rpretation , which coincides with it j ' a that article * It being not altogether improbable , that I may hg expected to do what has just been meintfpned , here follow the more m #$ erj # l instances , in which .
with j $ \ l & deference tp the superior judgment of Mr . C # 1 notwithstanding humbly conceive his explicatiati to t > e erroneous 2 and 1 . i % roaking the evangelical narratives to contain , not a strictly litcral , but ? purely figurative , account of the temptation ; 2 . in or
suppp ^ i Og the ^ vawgehst fiyst r $ c ^ de !? L . © f it to have thrown a x $ & c 0 $ i 4 lDn > k & vA figure , over the subject ^ ofibis reljation , lesty if de * Hwr ^ Jc / .: r * 'fjiiftu pJjaiiiP ^ naked Ian *
g ^ ag ^ a ^ r ^ OJHae ; $ orts of . persons shQwW take ^ c ^ d ^ ion , from : it 16 ca ^ i |^ fl ^ Uf > PS Ij ^ n owr Lo rrie s chai ^ r ^ $ sf ^ * igHn 4 : 'A 3 ^ ji . m . ; rep r ^ ienti ng ^ t 83 Jiftiii ^ rfrjri « Ci : . « poit ii r ^ corf ^ ras J haying I > fjpi ^ a ^^ t tinxw and in » it ^^^ W ^ ti ^ ia § id © rable distances vA ihzr ^ M ta ® m && 'i > $ ® t mz & i- ^* - <
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from one another , instead of fe « presenting Hhe ^ ais M ^ b g MF occurred in ' ^ l ^? a ^ tVd & Mig place , and *? £ ttftft th ^ Htmts of ar single day ^ ^ iictr-Mr / Fatrmei ^ has proved ^ ife $ y >)} 1 ^ 4 y v ^ Ha v ^ been the case ^ y aftS ^ if ! mky ^ Be
allowed tfr git % f ty t > pfniett ^ tKey ^ took plac ^ w itMft & tiika ll fdrii & f t of that day * - ^ ^^^ - ¦ ¦> - - t ^^ 'A ¦; ko *» By your leave , SiH-I ^ lHiefe ^ subjoin aa ex |> liclfctidii \ of ^ the ^ tbry of the t ^ mptfilSoti ^ ^ hicti se ^ Hii ^ to me ta he itpfrn the whole ffiiir most satisfactory * I suppose ^ that a ^ Moses , tlte Jewish lawgiver ^ w ^ is forty daj # and forty nights <^ n the mount ta " receive laws and instpudioiis for
the people of Israel ; & o Jesus , the Christian lawgiver , was impelled by the spirit to s ^ paratfe himself , for the same length df time , from intercouts ^ with
mankind , to receive information ci > fticexning the doctrines and duties he was to teach , and the labour ^ and sufferings he would have tb undergo in executing the office , x ) tt which he was afterwards to Wri
ter . During this time he ' -Tdste' 3 , ' and at the end of it he was hun * gred . His long fast had phobia - bly exhausted in great measure his strength and spirits . Resembling his brethren , as in otheir
respects , so in Aversion frorti - " paihf ( Heb * iivl ?*) it was natural foif him to consider , whether he inight not innocently eiMploy means di he
removing the l ; iung ^ r fel t f as well as do it in thfe course o » f h'fe :: ministry v to relieve dtiiers frbiii ' the like painful-s ^ iifeatioti . At- coidi n ^ ] yj nothing Usually taken to repair the v ^ astos bf the Animal frame being av toti ^ ^ M ^ d ' sJlii ^ 5 totieslyingtl ^ i t i 1 a )& tiiiii & ly ^ acciKWd ^ ' ' tifarr . Mm ^ ' " thfi ^ 'feft i ^ iia ?^^ *& ' % q- ^ ®&* ^ zuvw *
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1810, page 642, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1708/page/22/
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