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of Cain , that calumniator and murderer , inasmuch as ye seek to kill me * a man who hath told
you the truth ; this did not Abraham . ' But if this allusion be not admitted , JesuSt must only be supposed to refer to the commonly received opinion of the origin o f
evil designs and wicked practices * In the language of his reproaches * and of his accusations against those , who were seeking his life , we are not to look for his authorized in-.
structions upon a subject incidentall y introduced .- —rThe third arid last place in which tbe word is to be found in the gospel of John , is ch . xiii . 2 . which seems expressly to support the opinion of those , who maintain the
existence of such a being as the devil , and that he hath access to the human mind . The words are these , * And supper being ended , the devil having tiotv put into the heart of Judas I scar lot , Simon ' s son to betray him ^ Jesus knowing , &c / It is to be observed that
the words in italics interrupt the connexion , and should be included in a parenthesis . They might be omitted without any injury to the sense . The text would then
read as follows : * And supper being ended , Jesus knowing that the Father had given / all things into his hands and that he was come from God , he riseth from supper , &C- * It is not improbable , that the passage in question was offici-
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To the Editor of the Monthly Repository ,,
sift , After fading in your valuable Miscellany many learned discussions by J . M , t { ie clergyman , &j > 4 others on the person of Christ ,
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ously inserted by some franscrifrer of the authentic gospel ; firsfc as a marginal note , ami afterwards incorporated with the text , of which other instances rtiigh 4 be adduced . There seems to be
no reason for the observation , that the devil had put it into the heart of Judas Iscariot to betray Jesu $ , when the evangelist is relating an interesting fact , which had no pe ^ culiar connexion with Judas , and therefore would lead to no
association of thought with the character of the apostate ^ The place for such an observation appears to be more proper and natural in a subsequent part of the narrative , when Jesus declared that
one of the twelve should betray him , and in this connexion a similar observation occurs , ver , 27-* And after the supper Satan entered into him ( Judsis ); ' an expression as much open to objection's the former and as likely to , have been
the marginal-gloss of some transcriber . But if the genuineness of both passages be supposed unquestionable , as they are found in all the MSS . now extant , they are certainly the only passages which have yet occurred , which
directly assert the agenc } ' of thrf devil over the human mind ; and the weight to be ascribed to them will be more justly estimated , when the general sense of the N . T . xipon this subject is fully ascertained . Jm \ V \
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140 T On tie Spirit of Religions Controversy .
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ON THE SPIRIT OF UELIOIODS CONTROVERSY * Vt
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I lately saw with pleasure his precept * brought forward to notice in some excellent practical remarks on Matt « v . 2 $ . -by Dr . Carpenter ,
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1809, page 140, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1734/page/20/
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