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jfr . W / s ground , be Christians by virtue of the marriage of the one believing with the unbeliever . The sense given to [^ ccyio ^ hol y ^ by Mr . W . is probably right on the whole . It signifies separated to a religious use , and as applied to Christians denotes their belief in Christianity , But the verb Vrf / idfCL ^ is sanctified ^ which is derived from it . must retain the
same signification by every principle of just criticism . Now an observation or two will set every thing in ^ this text in a clear and pleasing tight , consistently with this sense of these words * J . a Is sanctified 99 [ yytarou ] ' Is not in the present , but past time , and should be translatejdAaM been sanctified , or hath , in ^ niany cases , been sanctified . 2 . Your children" [ fa , ? bkvcx yawv ] mean , as in many other
instances , not infants , but the young , your youth * 3 . " Otherwise * [ srfei ctgot ] ' should give way to , if it were not . vo or if this be not the case , as inure clearly shewing the force of the reasoning here employed .
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With these observations in view let us now translate the passage < c For the unbelieving husband
has been frequently converted , [ or brought to a belief in Christ , ] by the wife ; and the unbelieving wife has been often converted by the husband : if this were not the
case , [ if this effect were not produced by relative connections , ] your youth would now be unconverted , [ or heathens ;]< but now , [ by the influence of family connections , ] they are converted , or believers in Christianity . "
Well , therefore , might the apostle advise the continuance of the marriage union between persons , one of whom only was a believer * There was great reason to expect the conversion of the other . And
this reason is urged expressly in the 16 th verse , which I take to be decisive of the justness of the above interpretation . cc For how knowest thou , O wife , whether thou shalt save thy husband ? Or how knowest thou , O husband , whether thou shalt save thy wife ?" PRIMITIVUS .
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Explanation of John iii . 13 * . 445
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Jejstis used in conversation with Nicodemus , and that it is incredible , that he should h'kve communicated to the Jewish counsellor , a clandestine visitor ,, a doctrine of which John , the fore
-runner of Jesus , appears to have been ignorant , and '^^ jf ^ ich Jesus had given no intimatfcft ro bis chosen disciples . It is incredible that Jesus would have revealed to a secret ; and perhaps a disingenu-
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EXPLANATION OF JOHN III . 13 .
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John III . 13 . Now no man hath a&cended up into heaven , but tie who came down from heaven , even the Son of Man , who is in heaven . These words of Jesus have been understood by some of a Ipcal ascent into heaven , of an actual descent from heaven , and continued presence there . Tp this interpretation it is a sufficient objection , that it is language which
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1809, page 445, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1739/page/31/
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