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sense of both clauses is the same ; and the fact which they imply and the sentiment which they suggest , are illustrated by Isaiah i . 11—18 ,
It may be observed that parallelisms are oftan found in Vir ^ H . See Heyne ' s Comment , on Mx \ . xii . 727 . Ps . cxxxix . IS . " If I should count them , they are more in number than the sand . '' So , on another subject , Pindai * , Olymp . Od « xiii . { erfCAjSi £ f , sub . fin . ) with the scholiast ' s note ) ,
87 t an £ 1 $ eiy ) y Xsyeiv tfovli&v fyatpwY up&iA , ov . Jer # x . 2 , 5 . compared with Ps . Ix ^ ix . 6 . ' * Pour out thy fury upon the heathen that know thee not , and upon the families that call not on thy name / ' In the
ftbpve PW it is 4 C the kingdoms that have not called upon thy name / ' Evident ^ , therefore , this passage cannot with prbpriety be quoted in favour of family worship ; a practice , nevertheless , which rests on Scriptural examples and authorities as well as on other
unanswerable arguments . Matt * xxvii . 4 g . " One of them ran an 4 took a sponge and filled it with vinegar , and put it on a reed , and gave him to drink . '* Com-. meiitators agree that this vinegar ( so our translators style it ) was
the small , ( art wine which formed the ordinary beverage of the Roman soldiers : and of exactly such a . sort oY liquor Horace appears to sp « afcin bis Satires , ii . L . iii . 1 * 6 , Il 7 where he describes an avari cious self tormentor ¦ , who with * A abundance of the choicest
wines in his cellars , drinks some Qjf the meanest quality ^
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< c acre , Potet acetum . ** Acts . xv . 29 . " That ye abstainr from meats offered to idols , and from blood and from things strangled /*—The following sentences in Tertulliaii ' s Apolpg . adv . Gent . § Q , shew that this advice was
regarded even after the apostolic age and beyond the limits of Judea , " ne animalium quidem . sanguinem in epufis esculentis habemus—svffocatis et morticinis abstinemus , ne quo sanguine contamin £ mur . " —xvi . 30 . CQ he brought them out , and said . Sirs , What raust I do to be saved ?"—from the * cor ~ sequences , that is of the earthquake , and from the punishment of a supposed neglect of duty .-
—It is , nothing to allege that the gaoler was in no real danger ; as hirprisoners had not escaped . The meaning and the pertinency of his question , depend upon the sense which he entertained of his own
situation . From the foregoing verse it is evident that he was in considerable agitation and terror 2 and his subsequent kindness to Paul and Silas , was , no doubt ^ for the most part , " the expression ef his gratitude . —xxvi . 8 . Why should it be thought a thing incredible with you that God should raise the dead ?* ' They who read this question without a reference of it to the
context , may suppose that th ® apostle intimates the natural credibility of a resurrection * The preceding and the following verses will shew that he adverts to
nothing of thfe kind , but teaches thjs great doctrine on the authority of revelation , and places it , where alone it can be fixed , on the basis of a ^ fact .
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Notes on Passages of Scripture * 10 !
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1812, page 101, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1745/page/37/
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