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Ph i ) , ii . % 1 O . " Wherefore God en his part hath very highly exalted him , and of his favour y re * warded him with that name which is above evexy name ; that in the name of Jesus every kliee should bow , of beings in heaven and on earth and under the earth ; and
that every tongue should- confess that Jesus Christ is JLord to the glory of God the Father . 5 > The writers , it appears to me , have been very unsuccessful in this passage ; and their want of success arose from a want of
acquaintance with the object of the apostle . The Gnostics , by maintaining the Christ to be God , consistently enough held him forth as an object of worship . Against this doctrine the apostolic writerguards the Christians at Philippi ,
by representing God as the only proper object of divine homage , and the name of Jesus as the only medium through which it was to be offered . Verse 10 , therefore , should be thus rendered , That in the name of Jesus every knee
© t beings la heaven , and on earth , and under the earth , should bendj and ev ^ ry tongue confesn Jesus Christ to be Lord , to the glory of God the Father , " i . e . every knee should bend to the
glory of God the Father . Here the proper object of religious glory is God , and Jesus himself but the name in which this glory is to be offered to the Supreme Being . The editors very properly changed
at the name o ( Jesus , for in the name * of Jesus . But they hit the passage still more absurd than they ipund it , having separated the first ; by their preposterous punctuation , from the concluding , clause . . To bow at the name of * Jesus aod in nbe nuuie of Jesus ,
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must necessarily mean the sanrffe ining , unless another object is specified in the context . 1 he aposne guards in . more direct terms his friend Timothys
against the homage , of which Jesus Christ , as supposed to be a God , was deemed worthy . la 1 Tim . i . 15 > 16 . he represents the object of Jesus in coming into
the world as beirg to save sinners , and conferring everlasting life on thobewho believe in and obey him . The conclusion was then natural ,. that he was to be worshipped by all those who received this bless
ing at his hands . But the apostl * prevents the inference by subjoin * ing this prohibitory clause : " But to the king eternal , immortal , invisible , the only wise God , be honour ami glory for ever and ever . ' * He then insinuates that
the existence of one Divine Being , and the worship of him alone ^ were the fundamental principles of the Jewish prophecies ; and he recommends it to Timothy , who had been previously instructed in them , to arm hrrnfeclf with these ,
that by means of such divine armour he might be able to maintain a successful combat against those who pretended to be the friends , but were in reality the enemies , of the faith . This fine
and decisive passage is thus unhappily rendered in the Improved Version , ** r | hese are true words , and worthy to be received b y all ., that Christ Jesus came into the
world to save sinners , of whom I am a chief sinner . However , ior this cause I obtained mercy , that in me , a chief sinner , Jesus Christ might shew forth nil long guttering , for an example to those * ijA&' should hereafter believe on Jwlhi to everlasting life . Now to
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1 W 5 Defence 6 f * c Stricttifes oil the Improved Versioif . **
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1809, page 96, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1733/page/40/
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