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have no evidence , and which office belonged to the deacons . & 10 CX . 0 VICL is sometimes used specifically , in the apostle's writings , for the Christian ministry : and its sense in this verse , is pointed out by the conclusion of the seventh . From a conviction , I suppose , that this is a common meaning of haxoyioc , in the epistles ro xypvypioc seems to have been employed as explanatory of it , in Rom xii . 7 > in a MS which Michaelis
notices * . -7-20 . —* ' ye suffer if a man bring you frito bondage . " You allow him to do so ' il e . says Mr * tock «'( in loc . ) , " to his own will /' I rather think to unwarrantable
^ op inions and practices : for granting that this subjection had not yet been accomplished , the very attempt was sufficient to justify Paul ' s selection of the word .
Gal . iii . sV . as many of you as have been baptized into Christ , liave put on Christ . " It may be inquired , whence the phraseology , put on Christ ? Or , what its
propriety in this connection ? Perhaps the allusion is to the baptized person cloathing himself again , when he comes out of the water .
The proselyte when initiated into the gospel , lays aside his former garment , renounces his prejudiceSj &c . whether Jewish or Heathen , ancf puts on something new , Rom . xiii . 14 .
Heb . xi . 26 i " Esteeming the reproach of Christ , &c . " The Christ or anointed , in this verse , is the same with the people of God , * Iatrod . to the Ni T . ( Marth , ) VoU . 986 .
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in the foregoing . See 1 Sam . ii . 35 . xii . 16 . — or profane person , as Esau , — . " He is so called only as the effect of his despising his birth-right ( Gen . xxv . 34 . ) . In this view alone the Hebrew Christians are exhorted not to follow his example , i- e . not to renounce a blessing and a hope infinitely more valuable . Though we may justly censure certain , parts o £ Esau ' s conduct , his general character , some features of which were excellent , is perhaps top harshly thought of , as the consequence of its not being understood in what respect he was profane . James i . 22—26 . " Be ye doers of the w © rd / ' &c . We meet withasimilar sentiment and turn of expression in Demosthenes—( Philip .. jv *) rocBrov yrpovov ctiBbaZjcre , oVov ay 9
xc&r }< rQe ot , K&ovre $ y—bit ctrtexQwy exocarro ? Vfjucvv , 3 povoy sSsv ( ppo yr ^^
Ttepi ctvruuv , # AV s 6 s [ ASfAvyroci * —25 . —" continueth therein " -r ~ rather continueth to look at it , as opposed to what precedes . T&e former &ro $ y in this verse is
somewhat embarrassing . Erasmus proposed to substitute ara ?^( Bo wyer * s Conject . in . loc ); a reading « o happy that 1 would willingly adopt it , could I consent to alter any
thing in the , text of the New Testament on the authority of conjecture . Rev , xviii . 21 . — " a mi ghty
angel took up a stone like a great mill-stone , &c . " A quotation from Xenophon ( Anab . JL . 1 . chap . v . § 6 ) , rnay place the beauty and propriety of this image in a clearer light : svoiK&yfeg \ tas itv \ a , $ \ ovsg 'aterof— £ i $ 0 a , Sv ? s . u ! ya rfyoK n . r . X . ... N .
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Jtfotes on Passages of Scripture . 103
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1812, page 103, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1745/page/39/
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