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» to be derived from Luke ' s writings was the faith of the first Christians , then we must take either a different rendering , or a different meaning of the common nnp .
The third rendering most accords with the style of Luke ; and in his writings there cain be little hesitation therefore respecting it . If we take the instances in which he uses the phrase , in their connexion , thus making
him his own interpreter , we see abundant reason to suppose that he meant by it those who were called disciples of Christ , ( not , who were called Christians , beeause it does not appear that the disciples were then called so . } Saul , full of persecuting rage
* dgainst the disciples of the Lord , ' obtained letters from the high priest , to the synagogues at Damascus that ( ch . ix . 2 . ) * if he found any of this way' or religion , he might bring them bound to Jerusalem . Ananias * when Jesus
in a vision , directed him to go and inquire for Saul , spoke of Paul ' s conduct towards the * saints in Jerusalem / find added , ( vs . 14 . ) 4 and here he hath authority from the chief priest to bind all who
mre called by thy navfteS The jfirst three expressions in italics at once appear to be synonimous ; or at least explanatory of each other ; and the last seems to
require the same import : but if we consider the phirase in question as stghifying * all who pray to thee / to s&y the least it has nothing to do-withthe case . If Saul knew no more of the Christians , than we must infer from the preceding
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chapters of the A < ite ^ tof tU not himself designate t ) xe Cfrristians as persons who pfraysd t $ Christ ; nor could it ( unless the history is excessivejy detective ) be their common designation at thai time , since no mention is made of any one ' s praying to Christ * .
Hence therefore , even if it could be admitted that a disciple used the phrase with this meaning us a designation of Christians , we ca . ru not suppose that the Jews of Damascus used it with this
meaning ( vs . 21 : ) they tnust surely be understood to say , ¦ * Is not this he who destroyed those ! ' * who are called by this nafne / or * who are of this way , ' ( to use the expression in vs . 1 . ) It * these two instances one would think
nothing but excessive attachment to a pre-formed system could oppose this rendering . In Acts xxii . 16 . there is greater room for doubt . The verb is here in the middle form , and therefore requires the 1 st or 4 th rendering , ( the second being
excluded bv the sense . ) Whicft erf the two is to be chosen , must be determined by tfre circijmstances of the case ; and different circumstances favour each . The reading of the received text * the namfe of the Lord / naturally leads to the quotation twice maae
( viz . Acts ii . 21 . Rom . x . 13 . ) from Joel , ( ii , 32 . ) * whosoever callctfh upon the najne of the Lord shall be saved : ' ajnd though it appears that the true reading is * his name , * this naturally refem to the remote but principal antecedent , fc the God bf our fathers / ( vs . 14 . ) sMce ys " . 15 / is obviously r I '
* The case of Stephen fa $ already been referred io $ his invocation was an adr Jress to Jesus sensibly niaiuJBested to b&w * » nd was . aor more a pmyejcy thsin fhc re ^ quests < tf fcii disciples wt / c , which were made to him during Jus ministry on earth *
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96 S itemccrks on the Improved Version of 1 Cor * 1 / %
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1809, page 268, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1736/page/22/
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