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    . . . .. . .. (^¦ .. SChmt' - aiX ^^ i ^ riti ^ " ^^^^ repeated ]* dzdwdi t | ia » 4 ie ioM . 4 b | MW

    tru % ai | d tfee truth ' from C ^* Mttm || K to the . ^ i ^ otiy ^ hi ^ C ^^^^^ P by the miracles wluch - he enabled ^ tuoi to perfbria / 4 U-. F ^ i ?^^ i 47 . . . ' J : ^ : , . ^ : The VTItth JLeci is upon t ^ l ^ s ^ ll tlie vvprd DevilJ ' p . the Epistfe ^ thi following is the scheme of interpretation here adopted :

    " This term is used eight times by Paul : Ephes . iv . 27 , where it implies a slanderer . -Tsr vi . 11 , accuser . t ^ rim . iii . 6 , 7 , evil speakers . ' 11 , slanderers , 2 Tim . ii . 26 , accuser . — iii . 3 , false accusers . Titus ii . 3 , false accusers . Heb . ii . 14 , Heathenism . James ir . 7 , ' * pride and revenge . 1 Peter v . 8 . false accusers . 1 John iii . 8 , 10 , Where it is used synonymously with sin . Jude 9 > au opponent to an archangel ^—E \ 178 . Note *

    We think our author peculiarly unhappy iu his exposition ofeHeb . ii . 14 . " Heatbeirisin " -Slight by a personification be styl ^ i the Devil , the Accuser or Tempter ; but in what sense could Heathenism be said to have " the poWier of death" ? A writer to the Hebrews was not , likely

    to expatiate upon the deliverance of the Gentiles from tueir bondage and fear , and verse J 6 th of the chapter expressly confines his reasonj ^ ig to " the seed of ;^| J $ r » ham . " There is evidence in tl ^ B- passage itself that the Devil , as be ; is commonly conceived , is not ^ piel cannot be in tended ; this Mr . Sc <| # fiatisfactorily shews : but the whole and true sense does

    not appear to us to have been yet discovered . Can the writer mean by the Accuser , who had the power of death , the Law , agreeably to John v . 45 , and Rom . vi . 13 and 20 ? or does he re ^ fe ^ to some Jewish hypothesis oHtqk ^ le whiqh is not preserved ?

    Lect . IX . embraces the explanation of other expressions in the New Testament besides tfye Devil and Satan which are supposed % o refer to a eighty evil Spirit . t € The Prince of this world /* in John xii . 3 , 1 , ( the ^^ xt of thi s Lecture , ) is e xplained of

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    the Jejyiiji Sanhedrim acting under the sanction of the Roman Government . Paul is said to refer , in Ephesii . 2 , under the phrase ** Prince of the power of the air , ** to some fanciful bei |* g in the theory of the Gnostics , against whom he is writing z

    and in 2 Cor . iv . 4 , under the phrase " God of this worldi" or age , to the idolatry of the Heathens . We quote at length the remarks upon some other supposed appellatives of the Evil Spirit in the Apocalypse :

    " The eleventh verse of the math chapter'of the book of the Revelations /* ( Revelation ) is said to be prolific in its supply of names for the Devil , having m > less than three i * the Angel of the bottomless pit , ' * Abaddon / a ^ d ' Apollyori / John does not say the pit is bottomless ; ,

    he calls it ' the pit of deepness / as Wlckliff translates the word ajtvove . The pit is on the earth , since the stai ^ o > ji messenger of heaven , came to the e ^ rth , and had the key given him to open this pit .

    Jt could not be hell , as Us inhabitants are said to be confined thejre in adamantine chains , whereas T tfiese Were let out for five month ^ . ^ e inhabUanta ot this visiouary pit were the enemies of the gqspel , and are represented under tfce Wakeneld ' s translation .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1823, page 659, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1790/page/43/