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things revealed to him , and possesses the qualification necessary to support his claims / It is far-Sher observable , that our Lord , in very delicate terms , inculcates ins superiority as the Messiah to the lawgiver of the Jews . Moses went up to the mount \ the Son of Man ascended to heaven . Though Moses was with God , and above the people , yet he was still in the midst of earthly things ; but the Son of Man , having ascended
to heaven was raised in his views above earthly things , and had a £ uH and a near contemplation of heavenly objects 7 of- the spiritual 2 > ature and events of his kingdom . Finally , Moses was only the servant of God , and while vviih God on ihe mount had only
a distant view of bun , and a transient conversation with him : but Christ is his beloved Son , holds the most intimate and coniklefitial communication with the
JFktker and resides even in In 3 bosom . " ' P . 81 , 82 . We feel strongly inclined to transcribe several other passages , which we had marked as
deserving peculiar attention , nnci which aflord striking proofs of the author * s critical acumen and happy mode of illustration , particularly fcis . admirable remarks on the
cure of the epileptic young man ; Lut it would not be easy , by any extract , to do justice to the roejrits of the writer , and we would rathejr refer the lover of the Scriptures to the Illustrations
themselves , which will not fail to reward the reader for all the time ami attention devoted to them . The style of this writer is generally ek * ar , am } often elegant ; but sometimes incorrect ; , evidently froip the rapidity with
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which his thoughts have been committed to writing , afid which ought to have been reviewed . For want of suck attention the author of the Illustrations , without intending it , has contradicted the language of the Evangelist , and absurdly expressed what he did not mean . Speaking of th < j cure of the man , who was blind from his birth , he says , p . 418 :
" By this contrivance , Jesus got rid of the man , without having yet seen him , and at the same time taught him to connect the benefit , which he was coing to l i- receive , with his power , as its real cause . " It should have been
. without having been seen by him . We have also thought our author ' s language sometimes too metaphorical , or rather too much
loaded with metaphor , and were particularly struck with the following passage , which excited more surprise as flowing from the pen of one so well acquainted with the best writers of ancient land
modern times , and with , the mles which they have prescribed in the conduct and use of figures . " I cannot help observing , ** says Mr . Jones ^ in his comments upon the history of our Lord ' s- tra&nsflguration > < c that this part of our Lord's history is eminently beautiful , and is . as . far above the arts of
imposture , as is the zenith above the centre of the earth . The student of the N . T . is often surprised by events , which on the surface , from the conciseness of their detail , appear insignificant
and unimportant ; butwhqn deeply investigated , they catch fire , as it were , from the taper employed in exploring them , and by the elastic energy of truth , tbey bqxtrt into light ,. jmd expand i » t 0
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t * 00 Review * —Jones's Illustrations of the Four Gospeis .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1809, page 400, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1738/page/46/
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