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mack sfcofekcd at these assertions , feeling fully persuaded that much more had befen advanced than could be maintained on scriptural authority , and expr ^ fcsing a strong desire to near certain passages explained , if that could be done , consistently with the assertions which had been made . Agreeably to the wish aF the writer , an early notice , was given of the commencement of the intended
discussion , when a large and attentive congregation assembled , and continued to ddk so darilig the > wh 6 le course . "—Advent . pp , v . vi . > The Lectures are . Twenty-four ia number .
X * ecjL I . isupoa the Serpent in Paradise the ^ pxt Gen . iii . 13 . Mr . Scott het-e , estplai&s the mythology of the Persians and Hindoos , who deified the principle of evil , and shews that there was no sndh principle admitted into the Mosaic system , nor consequently any employment for a malignant being . He says ,
« — we do aftt find that the Jews ever etrter % ained any ideas concerning a separate principle-of evil , or a malignant spirit , until they re turned ifrora their captivity in Babylon . In the early part of that captivity , we find them adhering to the belief that Jelfcvah was the . source of
evil as well as good . This appears from Ezek Hi .. 20 ; * Again , when a righteous man doth turn from his righteousness and commit iniquity , and I lay a stumbling-block before him , he shall die ; because thou hast not given him warning , he shall die in his sin , and his righteousness which he Jbath done shall * not be remembered but his blood wilM require at thine ha&cL' During their long abode in Chaldea , however , they adopted many opinions which were not to be found ' in their Scripture ' s , and acquired many
habits which y §| Te not inctajcated ia them , and for neither of which can those Scriptures be made answerable . The , more learned menf among them adopted $ ie philosophical opltMus of the Greeks , among whom ^ bey lived ia ® Egypt and elsewhere ; and then , they began to
introduce , these Heathen notious into the Mosaic system , < as < inay easily be ascertained fr <| i # those books which are called A pocryphal * and which were written after their return from the Babylonian captivity . It vvasl among the Chaldeans that the Jews appear * to have learned to attribute certairi diseases to the influence of , evil Bpirit » i or the ghostts of Vyicked tnejpy and who ( were designated' by '••' tlte ^ ftrin voa ^ ft )^^ daemons ; an& < winch < 4 nm-Iat 6 rs of the cOraoiOn vferisioii i ^ Plreb .
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for not a syllablW ^ S ^ y ^^ ^^ gl : . * a . ^ v dej % ** ; to -S ^^ d ^ ve ¦ th # . mere y&m * m ^^^^^^ ;
tament § cri pture «?^ p ^^^^; Chalde u ^ . ^ r . a p ^^ l ^^ K . . ; quity , rtoft , any sue * being in t ^| glf ^ gious systems as that wMc }^ Cl ^^ K ^ have beea ;; loirg MCx ^ % ^ M M " ^^^ the Devil ta be ; u ^ pi ^^^ W g Bff ^ . the Romans any s&cfi flfeity 6 > iWM& Wk their mythology * Pluto , 4 ndb ^ ¥ mH Supreme over Ml the inhabitaiits of ^ thfeir infernal regions , but he was a veYy haffe ^ less and inoffensive being : he had riobtog of the Devil iar him . ' ^—Ptte 7- ^ w ^ K
The Lecture ^ ^ pritends that ther ^ is not the least autHbrity from th £ wolr&i of Moses to ^ M ^ fel :, # ^ ^ rpeiit that tempted ^ { J ^^^ tt ^ Devli , or as possessed by 'pflp . With Dr . Convers M& < mmm ^ Dr . Geddes ,
and , it ihig ^ t fee Mp |; Dr . Ptice , te considers the aclb ^ fe # ^ tlie fell of inaii ^ an aUegq # . ; "Jpe fffldwing remarks upon its moral design are excellent :
* Whether this apologue ^ ere intended to designate the placidity of a pastoral , or the actiyity of an agricultural life , as the history ^ of Caia and Abel appears to be symbolical of the ti * ansition frtorii yele to
ge ^ ab animal sacrifices ; or , whether iis design were td shew that , qt f # r tfeie Mosaic dispensation , no-eilmi ^ i ^ malignant being edttgft , TOieV as ttfe oppoaerft of God , 6 »| e ^ eitfy of lfla ^ nfeSlta , the reason for mioyiiig a sei ^ peiit Is one of the actors ^ fc fable , is
evident , to render more Conspicuous ^ e folly and absurdity of ser ^ ent-wojrSfflp ^ whiek fiad becovfflmty prevalcfe ^ n 0 B $ the 'Seathen q | nH | . Th ^ l * ?^^^ were " very mucH ^^ KiJte ^ pmistiffi ^ . lous wor A * # » nexioh with » . % »»;^ Kj «
^^ ' mmm ' FI « « whont t | iefer ^ TOs ^ hM lWe ^^ Pfe Moses is induced to hold nMjIp as an object of degradati 6 ^ f ^ wJ % d of religious v ? osghipA S Ip ^ f ^ il ** ^ * ^ diwfc-tp . ^ ' ¦** ¦ W ^ mm- ' ^ ^ « % - ^« sedop ^ f o | . jni «» # nafii , mmOmS ^« ' Wfe . » °
ttrong x ^ mM ^ m ^ w ^ -w ^^ here , f ^ UtfjSM AMmk&w •> ** - » B » I *!» the Israelites wiChWlorVor of ssuch de-
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Rmhw . ~ -8 cott s Lectutes on the &MV 653 \ -t . ¦ ' ¦ ' ' ¦ *
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1823, page 653, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1790/page/37/
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