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~ ^ M ^^^^ fli ^ tfi ^ k i ^^^^^^ M ¦ Bloxhaniy Sept . 16 , 1815 . Mr- Editor , MY present design is to give the readers of your valuable
Miscellany a very concise view of the sacrifices that were offered to God by the Patriarchs 5 and to endeavour to prove that some of them were sinofferiqgs .
The patriarchal age continued for about 2500 years ; and the history of it is contained in the Book of Genesis , the ten first chapters of Exodus , and the Book of Job * I . It appears that animal sacrifices were offered to God soon after man
was expelled from the garden of Eden . It is said , Gen . iv . S , 4 , " Caia brought of the fruit of the ground an offering unto the Lord . And Abel ,
he also brought of the firstlings of hi * flocks y and of the fat thereof . And the Lord had respect unto Abel aod his offering . * ' Gen . viii . 20—22 , xxxi . 5 .
II . It is highly probable that these sacrifices were of divine appointment . 1 st . They were offered at so early a period of the world , and at a time when but few , if any , beasts were put to death for human sustenance , that i ^ . ^ u ld have seemed cruel and
pre-- » u ^ * iious , and consequently more likely to offend God than to please him if he had not commanded it . It is also said in Heb . xi . 4 , " That
by faith Abel offered unto God , . Nows to perform a religious act by faith seems here , to do it from a firna belief that God expressly required it to be done . See ver . 40 . And as it pleased God oftea to converse w «
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640 Sacrifices offered by the Patriarchs .
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that the agreement of Paul ' s intention to pass through and stop some time in Macedonia , and of Apollos ' s journey from Corinth to Ephesus , as learnt from the Acts and the Epistles to the Corinthians , with Paul ' s intention to winter at Nicopolis , and Apollos
passing through Crete , as learnt from this epistle , furnishes another instance , in addition to the very numerous instances , of minute agreement between the Epistles and the . Acts , which Dr .
Paley has collected , and which he lias very fully proved could not arise either from chance or contrivance , but can only be accounted for on the supposition that the books are genuine * 1 am , Sir , Your sincere well-wisher , E . C . D .
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spent the whole time that is mentioned entirely at those cities , but that he made small . excursions to propagate the gospel in the neighbouring country ; with which excursions Luke , not being with him * was not acquainted . From Corinth he probably went
through Peloponnesus and ^ Etolia , and from Ephesus I think he made the journey to Crete , mentioned Titus i . 5 , for this Epistle to Titus could not have been written during Paul ' s stay at Corinth , as Apollos , who is mentioned in it , was not converted to Christianity till after Paul had left Corinth , Acts
xviii . £ 4 . It is therefore probable that this epistle was written from Ephesus , a little before Paul left that city for Macedonia , Now from Acts xix . 1 , it appears that when Paul came to Ephesus , Apollos was at Corinth ; and from the first epistle to the Corhithi *
ans , xvi . 12 , it appears that , at the time when that epistle was written , a little before Paul left Ephesus , Apollos was with him at Ephesus : Apollos must therefore have come from Corinth
to Ephesus during this time , and about the time when it appears probable , from other circumstances , that the epistle to Titus was written . In this journey Apollos might very probably take Crete in his way . From first Corinthians xvi . 5 , and many other
passages in both the epistles to the Corinthians , it appears that Paul intended to pass through Macedonia on his way to Corinth , and to wait in that Country till he heard what effect his letters had produced on the minds of the Corinthians . Having this in view , lie writes to Titus to come to meet
him at Nicopolis in Macedonia on his road , and says that it wss very probable he might spend the winter there . The only suppositions which fixing the epistle to Titus to this date requires us to make , are , that during Paul ' s stay at Ephesus he went to Crete and left Titus there , and that
Apollos on his way from Corinth to Ephesus called at Crete ; and I think it will be readily allowed that these are much more probable suppositions than those which Dr . Paley makes , that Paul after his imprisonment at Itome returned to Asia Minor , and then visited Crete and wrote his letter
to Titus . I think I have vow offered sufficient reasons to render it highly probable that this epistle was written from Ephesus a short time before the first epistle to the Corinthians , and
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1815, page 646, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1765/page/46/
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