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thing more should have been recollected of his origin , but that he was the son of Joseph and Mary ; and that his / father and mother were weil known in the
neighbourhood is , I thirtk , absolutely unaccountable upon the supposition of the truth of the narrative . Would nobody have recollected the hymns of the angels , the appearance of the star , the visit of the wise men , or the jealousy of Hc ^ rod ? Could
nothing more be said of him , but "is not this Jesus the carpenter , whose father and mother we know , whose brethren are Simon and Joses ,
and whose sisters live among us ? Whence hath this man letters , having never learned ? " Are these the only questions which would have been asked ? Are these the
only circumstances which would have occurred to memory if the narrative had been true ? In reply to the objection that there is no mention of , and no allusion to these facts , in other parts of the sacred writings ^ our Reviewer refers to Gal . iv . 4 . — God sent forth his son born of a woman . But if this expression proves any thing , it proves too much , It will prove that John the Baptist and many other persons , were conceived by mira * . tie-in the same manner ' && * Jesus Christ . For our Lord says * Matt .
xi . 11 among them that are born tof women , there has not risen a greater than John the baptist . The truth is , that the phrase is a common Hebrew periphrasis to express a proper human being . —See Job xiv . 1 . xv , 14 . —Go , Mr . Reviewer , go and study your New Testament , and then . re . Jurn and write your criticisms . J'his salutary precaution will save
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you many a blunder ^ and your friend ' s many a blush . To the objection that our Lord , if born at Bethlehem , Would irbt have been uniformly called Jestas of Nazareth , the learned Reviewer
states many reasons why he might have been s > o called ; but not one to prove that according to the Jewish custom he would have taken his local title from a plaice in which he was not born .
To -the argument that our Lord is repeatedly spoken of as the son of Joseph , without any intimation on the part of the historian , that this language is incorrect , no reply is made . The editors of I . V . have urged , that some of the facts in this
narrative have a fabulous appearance . To this the Reviewer , p . 329 , replies in the good old way of a baffled polemic , " We know not how far these persons may
carry their scepticism , but this we know , that they would only act in perfect consistency with what they here advanre , if they deetnfedall that our Saviour taueht
q . nd did , to be a cunningly devised fable . ' * . This is an insinuation worthy of St . Epiphanius himself , and . utterly unworthy of confuta ^ tion . He asks , 4 * do not all fchc facts of our Saviour ' s history bear the same fabulous appear-,
ance ? " I answer , most certainly not . What judicious reader would seriously maintain that our Lord ' s beneficent miracles , wrought in confirmation of his divine mission , and the important event of his resurrection , considered in all their circumstances and connections , have a degree of antccecteht improbability equal to that of Joseph ' s dfeams , or the star in the east * *
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1809, page 427, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1739/page/13/
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