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> vhen he wrought the miracle of Ivhich they then bare record : and surel y no one will contend that th'feir being at the" grave of Lazarus , and their being on the road to Jerusalem , bearing record of the
miracle , were not successive but simultaneous , because the historian uses the participle uv ? I also observed that the verb BTricv ^ zvc rs in this connection can - not be properly rendered was poor , and showed that Mr . B . ' s
rendering it he led a life of poverty \ s altogether foreign to its meaning . It is a verb in the active voice , and therefore cannot mean he was poor ; but either he became poor ^ Or imPOV € ri $ h € d himselfi and thiHre confirmed by t t ^^ esi gn of the passage which is 9 Paescribe the active benevolence and
kindiiess of Jesus-Christ , in this cir * cumstance . $ . e know , says the apostle , the gtace of-our Lord Jesus Christ , that being rich , for your sake he became poor , that ye through his poverty might be rifch . f
These arguments , with every other which 1 have made use of to refute Mr . Belsham ' sjigense of the passage , Mr . C . pas ^ s ove r , and contents himself with affirm *
ing fh ( it sense to be the true one . To illustrate the subject Mr . C . gofers to the second verse , aigl affirms that there the apostle cJIP scribes them ( Hie Macedonians ) as at the same time both rich and
poor . " This is not true : be speaks indeed of their deep cover * ty , arid of the rwpes , not of them , jbut of their liberality . This is not any thing li ||| pajjing that they wove at the $ djnW * t 4 me both rich and poor ; nor / Would there be
* See Moutiffl ^ jReposk ory . V . in . page 719 .
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any more propriety , iiy 4 ayinv so of-thera : than of > the poor widow who cast her mite , that is , all her living into the ^ jlreasury .
He also assert ^ that the aj >< % tie there makes use of the v ^^ p same Greek words" -as in the gtU verse . But neither is this true . He does not there- use the verb n 7 a / j ££# a / poor ; ( the word in the clause in dispute , ver . jf ^ but the noun T ¥ lcjo * Yeiay poverty ; but
suppose we might , with propriety infer from the words of the apos - tle , what nevertheless they do not e * press , that the Macedonians being poor , were at the same time rich in liberality * , still it would
notajiswer Mr . A >/ s p ^ rpose ; becdifle the scripture $ never speak of persons as being rich and poor at the s&me time , meaning thereby rich in one sense and poor in another without , either explicitly
or by necessary implication , shewing in what sense the term& ^ re used ; as in this and the follc | pi ) g instances ; ricl ^ in liberality *—rich towards God—rick in fait h- ~> rich in g , &od work $ . r- > -Poor of this
world—poor in spirit , &c . ; but nothing of this sort occurs in the passage in question . I have now to notice ^ your cor ^ respondent ' s misconstruction and perversion both of my words and
meaning , an order to convict me of inconsistency and contradiction . This is the great burden of his ^ piece , he begins with it , refers to tand repeats it in different ways , ET&Jt , the ^ reader may see where flflfcicy lies , I shall first put vn my sta'tcrnent , and then the representation given of it by my opponent ^ . My \ MgPafs are , * a rich man
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1809, page 558, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1741/page/28/
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