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turn . to be dead : and did they die \ vithout any reason ? Our victory is completed in the blood of the apostles : our faith is ratified in their blood . JLet us therefore
cians in Egypt , and many others ^ have wrought signs . Let it be granted : ajid as you *> ay the apostl-es wrought signs that they might enrich themselves with the treasures of rich women whom they perverted . But then , why did they die ? Why v ^ e re th ey crucified ? Others have wrought signs by magical arts , but they 3 id not die'for a dead man ; they were not . crucihVd for a , man . that had been crucified . They knew
jpraise God , fo whem be glory for ever ard ever . " . This translation is by kardner * ( Wp ; fcs viii . 223— 5 . ) The pas * sago is a pleasing specimen of rational theology in the 4 th century . Jt might have come from I he pen of Gardner himself , a decided
Unitarian . Two or three remarks may be ^ made upon it . ¦ 1 . The two apostles , mentioned in . it are not designated by , the superstitious appellation ofCt Saint / 1 which is now the usual praefix to tneir names * Peter is '
denominated si np | ply a fisherman ; or as it is in the original , which is not lite - rally translated by Lardner , a rude fisherman , whose hand was har * . dened bjy labour . i 6 Petrum pis-* £ at 6 r ? m , qui dimiserat rete , < £ ui afe opere callosam h ^ bebat ma-* nuni : —Kdminem rirstilcanum . "
" Patil is i ' tyleVf merely an apostle , * bnct a persecutorj *• Paul us Apostqlus—quondam persecutor . " And both Peter and Paul are called poor men , pg . uperes . " 2 . The " master to whom Peter Hxifi ' , Paul stood in the relations of disciples and messengers , that is
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Jesus , is pointed out as a a dead man—a man that had been crvci-Jied—a man whotn thty knew to have been dead . * ' \ Homine mortuohemine crucifixo : —sciunt i . sti hominem ebsemortuum . " So steadily had the simple language of the first Christians fixed itself in the church ;
if found in the New Testament , applied to Christ , would be reckoned decisive proofs of his blood being bhed to satisfy Divine Justice for the ' sirfs ' of '' mankind ' . ' Peter
though their simple doctrines wefe beginning at this period to be exploded . "' ..... 3 . Here are some phrases which
and Paul ( martyrs ) died and kvere ciucrfitd for a de&d a crucified man ; 44 pro homine , &c . ** How readily would an orthodox divine shew that to "idie for ' arioth ' e ' r , is to die as his substitute or
ransom * Hfc- ^ onld refcr-usr Aiiis . worth / who sa ^ Pro . ( l ) Fory on account of , as a price , or redompense * ( 3 ) Instead of . ' To modern Christians , it ( vould seem little less than impiety to say that Christ died for men in the same
sense that Peter and Paul by their martyrdom died for Christ .- — Again , gfeat tooHfr and efficacy is attributed to the blood of the martyred apostles . Our victory ( says the Christian writer ) is completed in the blood of the apostles : bur
faith is ratified in their blood . The original is much stronger : 4 Felix ei " go nostra victoria ' , quae in sanguine ajVo ^ tolorum dicata est . Fides no ' stra non probatiir ,
nisi jper illorum sangiiinem . ' ' tfappy then is our victory , consummated in the blood of the apostles . Our faith is not confirmed but through their blood . Phrases of much leas force in reference to Christ tire believed to convey the
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1 ^ 2 Jerom , on Psalm lxxrxii . 8 . with Remarks
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1812, page 172, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1746/page/36/
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