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If it do not mislead , is confessedly preferable , as far as regards dignity and emphasis of style ; and has a propriety , as conveying" an allusion to the eternal purpose of God ., in whose sight the past and the future are a ! ike present ; and in
reference to which the Messiah is described as c the same yesterday , to-day and for ever . * The Bible translators have , with equal taste and judgment , united the present and past times on a similar occasion , where the existence of God is spoken of i Isaiah xlii . 13 , Yea , before the day was , I am 7
he . "— Pp . 36—38 . The Author shews the probability of Jesus being the angel who forbids worship to himself , Rev . xxii . 8 , 9 : " The title servant is applied to Jesus by Isaiah , Ttlii . 1 , * Behold my servant whom I uphold ; * and III i . 2 , 'My
righteous servant / and in Acts iv . 27 , Thy hobr thild Jesus , * may equally be rendered servant ) iv < xi <; ; the same word as that rendered servant in the quotation from Isaiah , Matt . xii . 18 . The title prophet is applied to Jesus by Moses : Deut . xviii , 18 , 4 I will raise them up a prophet from among their brethren , like unto thee ;^ and by Jesus to himself : Luke xiii . 33 ,
c cannot be that a prophet perish out of Jerusalem . ' Though all reasonings on this passage must be merely speculative , there is at least a strong- probability that Jesus is the . Angel who forbids worship to himself .
The Angel of this passage is not the same who has before refused a similar homage of John , xix . 10 , for he names himself of those who bear the testimony of Jesus ; and is the same mentioned in xrii . 1 , as one of the seven angels who had the seveu phials ; and who again is distinct
from the angel mentioned also as one of the seven , xxi . 9 , who 6 talked with me , saying , Come hither ^ and this latter angel , though it is attempted to carry on his agency through the 7 th , 8 tli and 9 th verses , is not the second angel that forbids worship ; for this his agency properly ceases at ver . 5 , they shall reign for ever 1
and ever : arid the original speaker in this vision , described i . 13 , * In the midst of the seven candlesticks , one like the Son of Man ' resumes , in ver . 5 , ' And he said unto me , These sayings are faithful and true . And the Lord Goj > of the holy
prophets sent his angel to shew unto his servants the things whiclj must shortly he done . Belt old j 1 come quickly . ' TJhis is the peculiar language of Jeans , identified to be his by verse 12 , Behold , I come quickly ; ' and £ 0 , * He which testifieth these things , saith , Surely I come quickly ;" to which John replies , Even so , come , Lord JesusV The arg-uinent therefore is
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invalid , drawn from verse 16 , c I Jesui have sent my angel to testify unto you these things in the churches , * that the angel sent to the churches is the last speaker to John , and that Jesus onlv speaks through him . It is the gloriGed Son of Man himself who begins the dra ^ matic scene of the vision , and who closes it \ and the angel sent by Jesus to the churches is John the divine , or inspired ; who writes the record . There is no ground therefore for the opinion that in the verse , i . 1 , ' The revelation of Jesus Christ * which God crave unto him . to
shew unto his servants thing's which must shortly come to pass ; and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant John , * he relates to Jesus ; for it is plain that God is the antecedent , and the Son of Man , who visibly appears , 13 , clothed with a garment clown to his foot , ' is the angel sent , by whom the revelation was signified to John . He also is the second ang ^ el before whose feet John falls down to worshi ps he it is who describes himself as John ' s fellow-servant , and of his brethren the prophets ; and who ,, refusing the homage of adoration to himself , bids him to worship God . * u The character of an Angel of God is assigned to Jesus by Paul . Gal . if . 14 ,
4 Ye received me as an angel of God , even as Christ Jesus . "—Pp . 62 , 63 . In tbe passage that follows there is a happy retort of a Trinitarian accusation : v
" That the Father , or Jehovah , is alone God , is explicitly declared by Jesus , in John xvii . 3 , * This is life eternal , that they might know thee [ O Father !] the only true God , and Jesus Christ whom thou hast sent *
u On this passage , they who accuse the Unitarians of racking * Scripture , exercise their wit by two experiments : u 1 . They say , it is not expressed * thai they might know thee only the true GonV but * thee the onlv true Ood : " * * thee the
Father including' the Son % who is addressing tbe Father ; the humanity of Jesus now praying to his divinity , which wa * hnth in the manhood and in the Godhead at the same time ; and Jesus Christ being " ,
in this passage , the man Jesus Christ only , and the Father being Father ? Son and Spirit . So that when the Father only is mentioned , it ofteu means the Father together with the Son ; and when Jesus h distinguished from tub Father , it menus the man Jpsus ; God the Son being always included in the term Father .
" 2 . They say that Jesus Christ is included in the term true God 5 for that tbe connexion properly is , * that they might know thee and Jesus Christ whom thou hast sent to be the only true God . '
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434 Review . —Appeal to Scripture and Tradition .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1819, page 434, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1774/page/34/
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