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BIBLICAL CRITICISM.
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Bishop Hurd , in the tenth number of the first volume of his Sermons preached at Lincoln ' s Inn , is unwilling to allow , that the sole or the chief end of our Saviour ' s washing the feet of his disciples , ( John xiii . 1—18 ) 5 was to give them a lesson of humility and condescension : he considers him as signifying , by this ceremony , the efficacy and value of his own precious blood , by which alone they , and all . man - kind , were to have all their sins purged and washed away for ever .. " I , shall examine the reasoning by which this interpretation * . is attempted to be established . The preacher ^ de&ires us to remember , that " nothing was more familiar with the Jews , than to convey an information to others ,
especially if that information was of importance , by natural , rather than artificial signs , by deeds , rather than words / ' This , no doubt , is a just and pertinent ob-(servation : for it is added , that * every one knows" the fact ,
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who has but dipped into the history and writings of the Old and New Testament ; '' hence it will * admitted , on both sides , that the transaction before us is " a lesson conveyed to the disciples in this form /' But it is said , that u this way of information was occasionally made to serve two contrary purposes , either to give more force and emphasis to an instruction , or to clothe it with some degree of obscurity , or even ambiguity . " The answer is not difficult : obscurity or ambiguity was then only designed when prophetic representations were conveyed , either by words , as in the parables contained in Matt . xiii . or by
actions , as in the cases of Jeremiah , Ksekie ) , Michaiah and others Where nothing more was proposed than instruction ill religious doctrines or in -moral duties , obscurity and ambiguity seem to have been , most carefully avoided * We are told , nevertheless , of a u primary gemy ? " and of" a * *
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440 Jesus washing the Feet of Tits Disciples .
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a year , the whole expence of this 'would rise to but 3 000 I . a year : by this inconsiderable charge , a prince might have a constant nursery for a wise and ABLE MINISTRY . '' The good bishop also recommends particular care to be taken in the nomination of the chaplains of ministers abroad , that there way be a breed of worthy clergy men , who have large thoughts and great notions ^ from a more
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enlarged view of mankind and of the world **—Did the bishop , who had been a great traveller , intend here to characterize himself ?— . This reminds the Gleaner to put a question which he has lon <* wished to see answered :- —What was the origin of Travelling Fellowships in our Universities— -how many are there—and what arc their endowments ?
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THE 1 NTS 3 TIQN OF JESUS IK WASHING TttE FEET OF HIS JDISCIPLES .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1809, page 440, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1739/page/26/
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