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Mansfield * Sir , February 18 , 181 9-PERMIT me to request the insertion of a remark on John xii . 54 , which , 1 am informed , was originally
made by the late Rev ,. Mr . Simpson , of Bath . It was to this purpose : " That the addition or omission of the Greek article does , in many cases , very much affect the sense of a passage ; that the addition of it , particularly , seems often intended to render it
very ernphatical ; and that this is evidently the case in regard to the text above quoted , which Mr . S , would translate * the Son of the man *
hereby meaning David , from whom our Saviour was lineally descended . " I would add , that we should , perfcape , lay greater stress on the use of the article than ojn the occasional omission * TJb , sup-
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of it ; that there are no fewer than twenty-seven distinct passages in the Gospels of Matthew and John , where it appears to be used emphatically ; that in John v . 27 , the omission of it appears to be intentional and highly
significant ; that Jesus was considered , and repeatedly addressed , as " the Son of David ; " and that the reason for which he declined speaking of himself as such , was evidently the same which led him in general to avoid a declaration that he was "the
Messiah "—namely , that had he himself assumed , or had he encouraged his apostles to proclaim him under either of these titles , he must have appeared to friends and foes to be asserting a right to the throne of David , and in either case must have drawn
down the utmost vengeance of the Roman government upon himself and them . The reserve he maintained , as to acknowledging himself to be the Christ * is most admirably illustrated by the great Mr . Locke ^ in his " Reasonableness of Christianity as delivered in the New Testament } " a work of inestimable value . JOSIAH TOWNSEND-
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On the Contents of the Book of Revelation , No . III . WE are now come to the third part of this book . One occasion of its obscurity has been , the
considering it as prophetical of a series of events , instead of considering it as an amplification of those parts of the preceding visions , which by their importance particularly required elucidation . The last verse of the eleventh chapter should have been the first verse of the twelfth .
Chap . xi . 19 , describes the temple of God as open in heaven . This brings us back to the triumph of Christianity over idolatry , when the Church of God was opened on the throne of political power by Constantine , A . D # 3 IS . And there were lightnings , &c .
the usual prophetic manifestations of the Divine presence ; iv . \ , 2 ; Isa . vi . 1 . Chap . xii . 1 . And there appeared ,
when the temple or church wa opened , in heaven , on the throne of power , a woman clothed in the light and righteousness of divine irutb , crowned with the royal crowns of the
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modated his gospel more than any other Evangelist to the circumstances of tlie Gentiles , and takes every occasion of asserting their equality to the Jews , aud their equal share in the
regards of heaven . How then , ' * adds Mr . W ., " came he to take no notice of a parable which , in this supposed interpretation was calculated , more than any other , to ascertain that important point ?"
Allowing , however , that Luke wrote chiefly for the Gentile converts , still it may with justice be replied that our Saviour delivered the parable of the labourers in the vineyard for the reproof and instruction of his countrymen , and that to record it would therefore come especially within the design of Matthew .
Mr . Kenrick * says , " we hear of no dispute" about the Jews and Gentiles receiving the same reward for their services in the vineyard . Yet we learn from John viii . 3 S , &c . that the Jewish people greatly boasted in what I may call the antiquity of their religious privileges : and in the apostolic history and epistles evident traces occur of the desire of this class of Christian believers to take precedence of the Gentile converts on the principle that the latter had not till recently been adapted into the spiritual family of God . April 7 , 1819 . . N .
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Biblical Criticism . —On John xii . 84 . — € h % the Revelation . No . III . S 17
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1819, page 317, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1772/page/37/
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