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*> f malice and wickedness , but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth . " The Greek word cSuSfy , there used from&v& , says Parkhurst , * means
•* . to slay for food , occ . Matt . xxii . 4 ; Luke xv . 23 , 27 ; Acts x . 13 ; xi . 7 > Compare John x . 10 / ' " In the LXX . " he adds , " it is used for mi . "
Upon what untenable premises , then , does Dr . Magee assert , in contradiction to Dr . Priestley , that the passover is expressly called a sacrifice in the passages above referred to I But in further contradiction to the
Doctor , Magee asserts : " 2 . A priest nvas employed . S- An altar was made use of . 4 . There was a burning , and a part offered to the JLord : the inwards being burnt upon the altar , and the blood poured out at the foot thereof /* It is much easier to assert
and to contraqict than it is to answer and refute . What is there in the institution of the passover to justify these assertions of Dr . Magee ? And yet the institution must' necessarily
contain every thing in it essential to the due observance of the ordinance ; and that it did so we may be assured from the particularity with which Moses describes the manner in which
they were to observe it , and he charges them , when the Lord shall have brought them into the land which he sware unto their fathers to give them , to keep this service . 4 priest was employed . " What does the Doctor allege in
justification of this assertion ? Why he says , f " 1 . It was a corban , or offering , brought to the tabernacle or temple , as we find it expressly enjoined in Deut . xvi . C 2 5 . 6 . " " Thou shalt therefore rot , hill the passover unto the Lord thy God , of the flock and the herd , in the place which the Lord
Miall choose to put his name there . Thou mayest not kill the passover within any of thy gates , which the Lord thy God giveth thee , but at the place which the Lord thy God shall choose to place his name in , there thou shalt kill the passover at even at the going down of the sun , at the season that thou earnest forth
out of Egypt . " This is all of it ex ~ actly agreeable to the institution by Moses y " but here is nothing said about # Gr . Lex . under £ W , iv . f P . 299 .
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" a priest , a tabernacle , a temple , an altary & sacrifice , a corban or offering ^ or tany one thing the passage is brought to prove . They were , it is
true , to kill it in the place which the Lord should choose to put his name there : this , says he , must mean the tabernacle or temple . If it were so , that would not make it a
sacrifice-Dr . Magee not only says that it was expressly enjoined in the passage just quoted , but that it was " exemplified at the solemn passover in the reign of Josiah , 2 Chron . xxxv . 5 , 6 10 , 11 . " It is there stated that Josiah
kept a passover unto the Lord in Jerusalem ; and they killed the passover on the fourteenth clay of the first month , arid he set the priests in their charges , aud encouraged them to the service of the house of the Lord , and he commanded the Levites to put the ark into the house which Solomon had
built , and to prepare themselves by the houses of their fathers after their courses , according to the writing of David , King of Israel , and according to the writing of Solomon his son ; and in the 10 th and nth verses it is said ,
" So the service was prepared , and the priests stood in their place , and the Levites in their courses , according to the king ' s commandment . " This ordering the charges of the priests , and the courses of the Levites , had no
connexion with the institution of the passover , but was the appointment of David and Solomon for the general and regular service of the sanctuary . They were , therefore , in' their places according to the king ' s ( Josiah ' s ) commandmenty on this solemn occasion .
It follows , " And they killed the passover , and the priests sprinkled the blood from their hands , and the Levites flayed them . " This is all that is said concerning the passover in the above passage referred to by Dr . Magee , to prove that the passover " was a
corban 9 an offering brought to the tabernacle or temple , as expressly enjoined in Deateronomy , and exemplified in this passage . " But there is not any thing in the passage to shew that it
was a sacrifice , or that it was an offering brought to the temple and offered to God . There is no mention of any altar , or that the blood was the blood of a sacrifice , that it was sprinkled on the altar , that it was shed for sin * or designed to make an atonement . The ?
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i J 2 eM <** to o-n Dr . M < tgee * s Arguments to prove the Passover to be a Sacrifice . 471
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1819, page 471, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1775/page/11/
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