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I . It does not appear that any of the critics have thoroughly nnders ^ l ^ ftthe passage in Ephes . ii . from fife 1 st verse to the 6 th inclusively . It is confessedly an obscure p : aco .
The word ( r ^ . ocs ) us , ^ * n the 5 th verse , should not , perhaps , be taken as synonymous with 0 Jp , d £$ ) you , in the first ; or the contrast and antithesis , between the Jews
and the Gentiles , which run through most parts of the chapter , would be entirely lost . And it you and us are not opposed to one another here , the antithesis
does not begin sooner than at the 14 th verse , and then abruptly . It may be doubted whether [ ret & . { M ( fO 7 £ ca with the article , ] both , in that verse , be agreeable to
grammatical construction , and Greek phraseology , unless thv two parties had bee noc / ore intrQciuccd . With submission , thereiore , I
would propose " a new rendering of the beginning of this chaprer , which removes this difficulty , ii it be any , and exhibits a very important , and a very beautifui view of the apostle ' s meaning . J shall adopt the New Version , lately published , with a few variations 44 1 , And God hath given life ( xcci ' vfAxs ovroc $ vsxgovf ) both to Tou ( Gentile converts ) who were
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dead in offences and sins ; 5 . in which yc formerly walked , according to the course of this world , according to the powerful ruler of the air , ( the powerful ruler ) of the spirit that now worketh in the
sons of disobedience ; 3 . among whom even all of us ( Jews and Gentiles ) lived formerly in the desires of our flesh , fulfilling the wishes of our flesh and of our minds , and were , in our unconverted state , children of anger even as others ; 4 . but doth to
you , God who is rich in mercy , through ins own great love with which he < hath loved us ; 5 , and also to us , \ kou ovroic ' r ^ oig vsy ^ ovg ] ' who were dead in oi ' unces , h ^ ith
given life together , in Christ ; 6 . and hath raised us up together , and made us sit together in the heavenly places , in Jesus Christ /' 1 add to the reason above st ^ d . that the three verbs here i ^ hi ^ OTr o ^ a- B , o'vvr ^/ Bj , ^< , rws ~ itaSi < rs ] are compounded ^ vvith the
saiuv proposition [ enyv ] together . Ami surely the first , as well a > the two last , should be referred to the union of Jews and Gentile * together , and n ^ t ^ tfjeir union with Chiist , in the tmag predicated . To give a different sense to the ' preposition , in words which are so closely connected , would not
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independent income , died in peace , faith and hope , and i ^ embalmed in the memory of congenial relatives and of respectable and numerous friends . The afiflirence which the established church pours into the lap of some of her
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On Ephes . ii . 1—6 ; Ephes . i . 17 , 18 ; 1 Cor . vii . 14 . 443 *
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on ephes . ii . 1—6 ; epiies . i . 1 ? > 18 ; 1 cor . vii . 14 ,
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favoured sons , could notT have made such a man more truly opulent : its pomp and splendour could not have rendered him happier or more honourable ! June " 28 , J 809 - N « .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1809, page 443, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1739/page/29/
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