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BrBMCAL CRITICISM, -.,.;¦.. - • • 'and INQUIRIES AND DISQUISITIONS ON ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY.
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" Abraham saw his day 9 y verse 56 , he did not mean , that Abbaham / saw the person himself \ ( i . e , Jesus of Nazareth , ' the son of M < % - ry ) whose day he saw ; since he could not be ignorant of the ( ruth of the reply made by the JeWs 4 Thou art hot yet 50 years old /* verse 57 .
4 . That the Jews , however , supposed or pretended To suppose ^ that Jesus had said what : w&s tan ~ tamount with declaring that Abraham had seen him himself , the
very identical person standing 6 &-fort them , in the form andfigure of a man , ) and accordingly inferred , that , if that had been the casej tie must also have seen Abraham dnd
been alive at the same time with him , — -which the uncontradicted observation they had just mad 6 shows they could not admit * 5 . That Jesus perceived / and
could not but perceive and grant , that he could not have been livings as a son of Mary , or an inhabitant if Nazareth , in or before the days of Abraham , and , therefore , could nnt intend to assert the one or the
other to have been a fact , 6 . That if therefore Jesus really meant by his words , verse 5 S , that nhere was a sense ^ in which he was before Abraham , he must have
intended to asscjrt , that he ( Jesus of N azure thy existed or was before Abraham in the contemplation , appointmentor decree of the Deity . 7- That all events whatsoever having been known to the Infinite Mind from all eternity , and thoire-
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On John viii . 58-. Sep . 7 , 1811 . f my * ideas respecting the proper translation and interpretation of John viii . 58 , laid before the public itv a periodical work ,, between 20 and 30 years ago , appear now to me to have been erroneous , I hold it to be right pirblicly ; also to acknowledge what I at present regard as an error , and U > giver what , upon a re-examination of this celebrated passage , I have been recently led to consider as its genuine sense and design . No one > I imagine , caiv be justly censured far owning and correcting a misapprehension , iiito which becoticeivciB himself to have fallen .
1 ^ therefdECj beg laave to offer for insertion in your Repository jD \ & Second Thovghts on John viii . 68 . I . am nbt aw ^ re , that any wellfounded objections can be made to tbfc foil owing positions—viz *
!• Tibat Jesus meant the same 1 cind < rfh&ing and the same identical being by > the word ( syev ) / , in the SSih vecae ^ as by {[ x , e ) fne ^ with whidh { uvBpwirov ) a man , stands in apposition in the 40 th ver ^ e of ch . viiL in John ' s gospel . Both occur
in the ^ ame discourse ; and there is not the slightest intimation of their being uaed in different senses . 2 . That by ( jxvbpWTtQv ) a man Jfc&us meant that individual visible b € * ngy whom the Je-ws 8 aw stand-*** g , and heard conversing ^ tvith them , ~ &n That . when Jesus said ,
Brbmcal Criticism, -.,.;¦.. - • • 'And Inquiries And Disquisitions On Ecclesiastical History.
BrBMCAL CRITICISM , -.,. ;¦ .. - • ' and INQUIRIES AND DISQUISITIONS ON ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1812, page 97, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1745/page/33/
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