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teiOLtw ociouvoi should be translated the end of the age , meaning the conclusion of the Jewish dispensation . This form of speech occurs five times in JMatthew ' s
gospel , and bears uniformly the same sense . It is not used by either of the other evangelists . We find it once in the Epistle to the Hebrews . " Christ was
ma-Difested once for all , to put away sin £ 7 ti trvvtsXeia ^ row cucuvojv , at the completion of the ages / ' Heb . ix . 26 . This cannot , in reason , l ? e interpreted of any appearance of Christ which is yet fuMire . In our apprehension , both the parables in questipn refer to the escape of the faithful , and the destruction
of the wicked in the general ruin , at the coming of Christ to judge the Jews , by the subversion of their state . Matt . xvi . 27 , 28 . will throw light upon the passages . The following animated
reflections are suggested by Matt . xv . 30 , 3 K M surprising and various are the miraeles of Christ ! The diseased and afflicted assemble round him from every quarter of the country , and form a
wretched meeting of the most disgusting and miserable objects , "which the imagination can conceive : some , deprived of the use of a limb , and incapable of moving at all , or without great pain ;• others , from some of those accidents to which human life is ever exposed , wjlth limbs cut off , presenting their
mangled bodies , without a finger , an anh or a leg ; some , like the brutes , incapable of speaiking , and only able to express their thoughts by mute signals ; others , blind from their birth , who had never yet seen the glorious light of the surf , or the cheerful face of nature , more hel pless and incapable of directing * themselves thun a child ; others , whose wild looks , incoherent discourse , and extravagant actions , too plainly discovered * hfct reason no longer presided in the
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soul , and that all Was confusion' afid dis «* order within : sm : h were the wrefcchdtt objects , with which Jesus was * urr 6 und ~ ed ; men labouring under the greatest of human calamities , and their spirits , where they "were capable of reflection , oppressed with disappointment , and de ^ spair of relief by any natural means \ sufficient to move the compassion of ths most obdurate heart . But the scene
suddenly changes : the bodies of the diseased are restored at once to a soundi state , and every thing that is painful or offensive disappears at the presence of the Saviour . With what rapture must he who had lost a limb , or to whom it was rendered useless , perceive it restored in a sound state 1 How would he
exercise his newly-acquired member With what pleasure would he lift his new hand , and leap ujjon his new leg % scarcely believing what he felt and saw , for joy ! How eagerly would the dumb exercise his tongue in the newly-acquired faculty of speech ! How would the biinci behold at once all the beauties of
creation ! No one can conceive the wonder and joy which must pervade every heart on such an occasion , any mote than thfc grateful acknowledgments which they would make to their kind deliverer , or the pleasure which he must feel on boholding the happy effects of his pow _ er .
c < Well might the surrounding mult ** _ tude glorify God for producing sowon- » derful a change , and permitting them to behold it ; and justly may we join our thanksgiving to theirs , when we learn s ^ uch things , in a less perfect manner , from history . "
Matt , xviii . 20 . u For where two or three are gathered together in my name , there am 1 in the midst of them . " .. ** The name of Christ , " says Mr-Kenrick , " is often pat for his religion . To be gathered together , therefore , in the name of Christ , is to meet for th £
purpose of promoting his religion . — Those who assembled together with this view , however few they might be irt number , might be assured / that their prayers and other services would have the same force , as if he himself were among them . There seems to be nothing in this passage , to countenance the idea
* In Matt . xxiv . 3 . and ^ xviii , 11 . Mr Kenrick transUtes awriMm t < w <*<« v * # f $£ endt > " ftbcage and rriukes some good observations on the phrase , * * ' 4 ? '
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Review . —Kenrick $ 12 xposition . 6 &&
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1809, page 625, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1742/page/39/
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