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. " ¦ V . Ctor- l& . 2 : " I ^ fcave fed you with rtiift , * b& f ttot with meatr for yfcu tfete totfliiWfett aSIfeto rfecfefre it ; *** - th&r ate jii tieii $ et able . ' * On thfe declaration Mr * Belsham ( Translation , &c ., ift loc . ) bertinently asks , ** On .
What Was thtit meat which the Corinthians trould not digest ? that doctrine which they could not receive ?" Doubtless , we can only conjecture , what it was ; arid there is much difficulty in the employment . I might , indeed , answer generally , that it was some instruction which their
contentious , worldly spirit disqualified them for admitting and using . Ver . 3 , &c . Still , a more specific reply is desirable . If in the second epistle to the Corinthians Paul had discussed any point of religious doctrine , concerning which he is silent in the former , our perplexity might be removed or lessened . But I discover no such difference be * -
tween these two letters , which , in truth , are particularly characterised by lacal references , and a localapplication . Probably , the apostle does toot , in this passage , allude to any one
tenet : all which he means , may be , that , as the consequence of the unhappy state of things in the church at Corinth , and of the prevailing habits of its members , he forbore t <> touch to
on certain matters ^ which commission extended , and in which he felt a deep interest ; these he waived , as he could not , for the present , write on them with advantage to the infant society—and he consulted , as became him , their urgent wants . " The
variety and worthlessness of all their boasted systems of philosophy , " had not entirely escaped his attention ; as is clear from the preceding part of the epistle . Of " the perfect spirituality of the Christian rehgton" much could ,
unquestionably , have been said by Mm : and this , perhaps , was a subject ° & which he would have enlarged , had circumstances permitted . * Another wourite topic of his thoughts and P « , was the liberty of converts from among the Gentiles to the Gospel :
He who carefully peruses the account , which JC D . Michaelfe ( Introd . « c ., iv . 44 ?) ttetf given of these circutn-A ^ Ce 8 ' ^ rt ° ^ ^> A « t otitehed ; that Paul ^* £ » 0 t tftfW 1 enlarge on many gfeueial
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yet Mr . B . rightly intimates , that the apostle wag not called ttpbn to $ * $ && of it , in the letters to the Corinthians . I lmve sometimes thought * $ hat ^ Wrtil might refer to the future stat ^ of tfife church of Christ , and the ; fWler disclosure of the existence ^ nature , claims and acts of an antichristlan pdwer . Concerning all these pointy he seems to have been in possession of prophetic knowledge : and to his friends at Thessalonica , who , certainly , were spiritual / in comparison of those at Corinth , he writes , with much freedom-, On the man of sin , &c . 2 Thessi ik
-Let me not finish this note , without remarking , that Mr . Belshiam ' s Translation , &c ., of the Epistles of Paul , is honourably characterized by-some of the most luminous and impressive statements , which can atiy where be found , of both direct atfd pre&utapfcive evidence in behalf of Christianity , : 2 Cor . viii . 2 : €€ * the abundance of their joy , and their deep poverty . "
Dr * Mangey ( Bowyer * s Conjeet . in loc . ) would read %£ «*<* $ , instead of % a . $ a <; . Were the emendation fe ^ fuisite , nothing could well be happier than this reading : were the text ift * s <>
desperate a condition , as to baffle the established principles of criticism ^ we might gladly have recourse to this conjecture . But a glance at Griesbach ' s edition will shew that ail the
MSS . and versions , &c , are in favour of the clause , aa it now stands : and the attentive reader will perceive that the apostle repreisents the predominant joy of his Macedonian friends in their Christian privileges as ineiting thenv to make uncommonly generous efforts
for the relief of some of their yet poorer brethren , and as thus enhancing the- merit of their contributions . Dr . M / s conjecture is extremely ingenious : I cannot think it solid ; and it strongly proves the impropriety of
attempting to alter the text of the New Testament only on conjeetti $ ? e . 1 Tim . v . 8 : " if any provide not for his own , and ftpecififliy" for those of his owa hotiaie ¦'¦ * i aWH . e .
says Hallet , " for those pf tiffin , tvho are of the household of Jfr $ t }) , " or Christiapp ; in Uluatiffit ^ , ^ * - port of which commei ^ t he cites GaK vi . 10 , * Now in $£ && pae ^ flge , tt ^ —r— : , : . ^ ¦ ¦< : -r-7-r . — ? NOHHVI . 'U .. ' :
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Notes on Passages in the New Testamen t * 69 #
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1823, page 699, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1791/page/19/
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