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BIBLICAL CRITICISM.
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Biblical Criticism.
BIBLICAL CRITICISM .
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COMMENTARY UPON ZECH . IX—X . 1 ^ ? Designed to illustrate Matt . xxi . 4 . From H . E , G . Paulus * , Crlt . Phil , and R £ st . Com * on the N ^ T . Liibecfc : i 8 oi > VoL Hf / p . 115 , &c . f It was necessary thus to exhibit , at full length , the context of the passage cited l > y Matthew as a parallel prophecy , because
by that , connection the original meaning must be determined * The whole passage does truly refer to the Messiah ^ inas much as the ^ expectation qf happier times forthe Jewish people ^ under some king the vicegerent of Jehovah ^ may be said , under every difFerent modification * to have reference to the Messiah . It
has been observed by other authors * thstf ; the last chapters of , what are called the oracles of Zechariah are an appendix to the ; criginat collection ,. and . of ^ jnuch later date than the return frouao Bahy ^ pru ( See " Die Weissagungen * welche den Schriftew des Proph . ZaGharias beigebogen sincL" Hamburg ,: 1784 * $ j ami Eicmhdrn ^ in , the postscript to the 605 th paragraph of his ^ Einl ; , ins . A * TV 1 * 187 §•) The time atwhich the oracle itv
question was written ,, and ta which it has . reference ^ may bei ? Lately Professor of Theology at jena , fcut now at Wurzbur ^ . A secomli edition of the £ tst volume of his £ Conunentary was published in 1804 , ^ vith great ; additions and in \ provements . . ' -f For Paulus ' s original version ofZedi . ix—x . r . see Monthly Repository , p . i ^ T * J The author of'this piece was the Rev . B . Gilbert Fl « gge > i of Hamturg * He 2 opposed Eichhorn ' s opinion that Zechariah was really the author of the last chapters of what are called his prophecies ^ and , it should seem from the manner in which Eichhorn notices the work in his subsequent editions , with considerable
asperity , § In the £ rst edition of his introduction , Eichhorn had given-it as his opinion ^ that the latter chapters of Zechariah were written by the prophet whose name they ] b < # r ; ¦ iti ttie seebnd an < d third , he exjpresses his doubts abou t the soundness ofJiisi former Conclusion , and thus states the reasons which had ; made him incline ; to the other side of the question ^— I now incline to the opinion Which denies the claim of ^ ecli ariah to these chapters ^ but without being able to come to a decisioiir ^ without being able to say who is their real author- —without asserting , . that
froni the" ninth chapter to the end discovers itself to be fragments T > y the same 1 hand . The dissimilarity of the style from that of the former part still remains very great , after all the resemblances which have been adduced ; and this > . ^ toge ^ ther with the nature of the contents , first made me hesitate . * The whole cbmpoftition is different ; the colouring has another character , and the tints are combined
in quite a different manner ; nor can I clearly see ,- as I once didj th « - spirit o £ Zechariah in the connection of the whole , where the question depends less upon single words . The contents of this part , particularly , make me doubt whether it £ e Zecrjariah ' s- Chap . ix . 1—8 . appears to celebrate the victories of Alexander ,
socfar as the Jewsv / ere gainers by th ^ m : can this oracle , then , be so ancient as Zechariab ' s time ? / On the other hand , chap . ix . 9 . x . 13 * or theuoracle concerning the happf sera of the Messiah * appears much older , and to have been composed before the separation of Israel from Judah fix . 13 , x . 6 , 7 . )* and while the Assyrian empire -was in existence ( x . 10—12 ) . With still leas certainty can we speak 0 /
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1806, page 655, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1731/page/39/
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