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sin 3 or make wicked , he shall pay double unto bis neighbour /* Here our translation renders the phrase very justly , " whom the judges shall condemn" According to this instance then , to be made sin is to be judicially condemned . So again in the book of Job , x . 2 . * I will say unto God ^ do not condemn me j" literall y ^ do not make me wicked , or as
literally , do not make me sin . In the preceding verse Job having declared , that on account of the heavy calamities which had befallen him , " his sou ] was weary of life /* resolves to try whether any ease can be derived from indulging his complaints . " I will / ' he proceeds , " let loose my complaints from within myself , I will speak in the bitterness of my soul , I will say unto God , do not make me sin / 1 Here it rs evident Job
sutvposes God was making him sin , by inflicting upon him , and continuing those calamities which had made him weary of his life . It seems to be the intention of this unhappy man to intreat of God that he would remove from him those signal sufferings , from whence it was inferred by those around him , that he had been guilty of some enormous crime . According to this instance , therefore , to be made sin is to be treated as a sinner ,
to be distinguished by such great and singular afflictions as it is just and right that abandoned sinners should be distinguished . Again , chap , xxxii . 3 . " Against the three friends of Job , was the wrath of Elihu kindled ; because they had found no answer , and yet had condemned Job : " literally , and yet had made Job sin . If we reflect upon the history of Job we shall see , that according to this instance , to be made sin is to be unjustly
accused , uncandidly thought of , to be judged with uncharitable and unrighteous judgment . * So again , Psalro xxxiv . 21 , 22 . " Evil shall slay the wicked
and they that hate the righteous shall be desolate ; " shall be made sin , i . e . shall be slain by evil ( as it is in the first member of this verse ) , shall be overwhelmed in some terrible calamity : c * but the Lord redeemeth the soul of his servants ; " evil shall pot slay them , " and none of them that trust in him shail be desolate : " literally , made sinners . It is plain that in this passage the import of the phrase must be determined by the import of the same phrase in the preceding verse , where it is , beyoad all dispute , equivalent to the being slain by et * il : for the
Psalmist evidently meant to deny of the righteous , what he had affirmed of the wicked ; consequently according to this instance , to be made sin , is to be visited with terrible and destructive calamities . Again , Psalm xciv . 21 . " And condemn the innocent blood ; ' * literally , make sin the innocent blood . The Psalmist is here ppeakipg of unrighteous judges , who under form of law coni ^
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Chrisfs being made Sin . 85
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1806, page 85, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1721/page/29/
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