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    . down of myself : I have power to lay it down , and . I have power to take it again . This commandment have I received . of my FVther " * These words of our Lord were verified in

    his willing surrender of * himself into the hands of his enemies : he would not avert his death , by the exercise of his miraculous endowments in his owa defence , but was an unresisting victim , Matt . xxvi . 53—55 . Thus ,

    and thus * only , he laid down his life , that he mighty take it again . The " strong cry , " + which he sent forth , just berore he expired , is no proof that he dismissed his breath before the vital principle was subdued . In circumstances like his , shrieks are sometimes the result of a convulsive

    effort of nature , and have been known to precede immediately the moment of dissolution . Let me transcribe the judicious and excellent note of J . G . Kosenmtiller on Mark xv . 39— "

    Iriterpunge : on ovru ><; y Kpa , £ a , q e ^ sicvevcrBV , quodita , ( utnempe coinm . 33 , 34 , 37 , dictum ) clamore edito earpirasset . Non clamor ( hie enim non plane insolitus moribundis ) sed miracula , de quibus paullo ante dictum , in admirationem

    rapuerunt centunonem . " I will add , that our Saviour's language— ' * it is finished—into thy hands , " &c . —appears to have followed his " loud voice . " or shriek .

    John x \ ii . 3 : the only true God . " J Tfiis appellation is explained by the parallel text in 1 TJiess . i . 9 : " ye turned to God from idols , to serve the living' and true God ; which passage Hallet has overlooked , in his observations on the

    phrase . According to that ingenious and learned anuotator , § " the expression , The only true God , signifies the same as the alone ; most high , or supreme , God . The true ( Joel signifies the same as the chief God , The God , byway of emphasis , the God in the most famous and eartyaordinary sense * "C la this criticism I cannot

    acquiesce . ., Thie sovereign dominion pf God would r&eem to imply his JUxfity : and it were pleonastic to speak ¦ - *' . ¦ ' ¦ * ¦* ¦—»— - — . — - — - — . ~ — ¦* Grot , on Matt , xxvii , 50 , Benson ' s Life of Christ , p . 514 . f Doddridge ' s Expos ., in loc . t Gerard ' s Institutes , &c ., 2 d ed ., pp . 321 , 322 . § Notes , &C . * , Vol . I . pp . 14 , 15 ,

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    of him a * tfi the alone most high . " Nor is the description , " the true God , * ' identical with itf the chief < Jod , ?> hut conveys a far more interesting aad magnificent idea . . ^ To > u $ cCfei ^ t i ^ there is , literally and absolutely , o «^

    God , and no other than , Hje ; ^ l besides , who have been so called , are nothing . We dishonour , though unintentionally , the Being' whom we adore , when we declare simply that he is " the GocJ , by way of emphasis , the God in the most famous and

    extraordinary sense : " for the Scriptures go much further . * " Those places of the New Testament / 5 which Hailet cites , are irrelevant to his purpose : in none of them is the word true

    employed " in a like manner as in this text . " Our Saviour , in Luke xvi . 11 , contrasts €€ the unrighteous mammon /* i . e . the deceitful , preparipu ? riches of this world , with the truef or durable , riches of heaven . la John i .

    9 , th § Evangelist opposes the true , the everlasting , light of Christian knowledge , to all material light ; as , in John vi . 32 , our Lord does the manna received by the Israelites , a temporary and perishable food , to the vital nourishment supplied by his owa instructions . So , the true vine , John xv . I , is that which endures for ever ,

    and fa } ls not to refresh the imnd : the truq tabernacle , or sanctuary , Heb . viii . 2 , ix . 24 , is the church of Christ , permanent and stable , in contradistinction to the convention-tent of the Ijiebrews ; it is , figuratively , the " house of prayer for all nations /*

    Even if this class of texts stated , or implied ^ a comparison of what is chief and eminent with what is . greatly inferior—and not a comparison of what is earthly and fleeting w } th . what is spiritual , heavenl y ' ^ nd immortalstill , John xvii . 3 , dojss not belong to OlfAtJ , VUUlt AlUt W , UV&O UVf U MUAVMf ^ - " -

    them : here the phrasfe is , €€ The om > * true . God . " Now he alone is the true God , w | io is the ever-Jiving ( iod : consequently , the passage before ; , ns does not place in contrast a Supreme G . od and a secondary pjr ^ ti ^ ordinate God , but the only Gl > # and-the idolvanities of the Heathene-t

    +: ?< T * X (^ QlM ^ M ^ M ^^ T ^ Bahrdrs Note 0 ^ : lt } Ap $ Cnfic ^ ta l ° ;

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    698 Notes on Passages in the New Testament . * ;

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1823, page 698, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1791/page/18/