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paren thetical . — On the other hand , considering that Saul was actually a religious man , and that Ananias had ( as we have seen ) before used a similar expression , to denote those who owned the authority of Chris ^ it seems somewhat more probable that he vised it now with a similar import , viz . < take upon thyself his pame .
One passage only remains , ( for Rom . x . 11—13 . assuredly refers to God ) viz , 1 Cor . i . 2 . ' to the church of God which is at Corinth , to those that are sanctified through Christ Jesus , called to the saints , s \ nd to all that in every place arc called by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ / or . * call on the name of our
Lord Jesus Christ . '—If it could be proved that the apostle considered Jesus as the very and eternal God the object of religious worship , and also that it was a peculiar characteristic of
Christians in general in those days , to pray to Jesus , the latter o { these two renderings would be somewhat preferable , because the apostle uses the verb in the few other
cases in which he employs it with an active force-, and because he quotes the very phrase ^ c call upon the name of the Lord , ' from Joel in reference to the Supreme Being , ( Rom . x . 13 . ) unless
however such were a peculiar characteristic of the Christians ( and assuredly it was not , ) the connexion would obviously point to the former rendering , which is the rendering of the I . V . . which brings into view what was certainly a characteristic of them , that the y were called , and called themselves disciples of Christ ; and it ^ y be remarked , th $ , t fpj many J ^ WR fa nfare this Epistle wa $
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written , they were delimitated Christians . It is not enough observed that Luke ' s common use of the verb * differs from the common use of it
in the Septuagint . There is perhaps scarcely an instance in the latter , corresponding to Acts x * 18 . * Simon who was called Peter / The use of the verb had obviously varied ; and therefore , ( except when quoting from the
O . T . ) the N . T . writes * would naturally use it in the sense thea most customary in such a connexion . - — However the t grand point is , that the usual interpret tatioft of tht usual rendering ,
supposes that to be a common characteristic of Christians , of which there is no other proof than that usual rendering : arut even this rendering if admitted proves nothing , for the only gases in which we know that the first
Christians invoked the name oi Christ , was by saying 4 In tha name of Jesus Christ * when they were working a miracle , ( Acts iit . 6 . iv . 10 , 30 , &c . ) by baptizing 6 in the name of Jesus Christ / ( Acts ii . 38 . viii . l 6 . &c . ) and by teaching c in the name of Jesus / ( Acts iv . 17 , 18 . )
We shall finish these remark * by observing , that there is a wide difference between provipg an opinion , and according with a thing when proved . Admit the hypothesis , that the first Christians called upon Jesus as an ob *
ject of religious worship , and ( though there is much which dU rectly opposes it , ) some express * -, ons may be sufficiently well explained according t <> it : bui till this is proved , no expression can really support it , which ^ will fairly admit of a ditefefft . jwjrtex-
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1809, page 269, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1736/page/23/
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