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    If this had really been the meaning , would not out Lord have said , " But by and bye he saith The new is better ? . ' - ' As it now stands , it wants the very words which , according to Schleiermacher ' s view , contain the whole gist of the argument . The remainder of the collection of out Lord ' s actions and discourses in the neighbourhood off Capernaum is chiefly occupied by the sermon on the mount . Our author thinks that this celebrated discourse was

    not addressed peculiarly to the future teachers of his religion , ( p . 89 , ) but to the company of his disciples generally , and even doubts , upon grounds of which we cannot discern the validity , whether the Evangelist meant to repre--sent Christ as on this occasion choosing his twelve apostles , or whether he , indeed , ever formally and specifically designated twelve to this office . From ch . vii . 10 , to ix . 51 , according to our author , we have another collection , evidently of passages which wer , e once distinct , ch . vii . 11—51 ,

    vni . 1—22 , ix . 1 , and thence another to ~ ix . 45 . The next verses are a little appendage , and at ver . 51 begins the third main division of the gospel . Whatever foundation there may be for these separations , we think he is right in saying , that the motive for placing the incidents , ch . vii . 11—50 , together , has been the message of John and our Lord's discourse in consequence of it . The raisiner of the widow '' s son precedes , to iustifv the vmooi I < v */ Wr */ of it . The raising of the widows son precedesto justify the vtyipo ) iyetpovrxi

    , of our Lord's reply ; the discourse with Simon , to explain the origin of the charge , < pt \ o <; dpaptuKSv , ch . vii . 34 . Contrary , however , to his usual custom , Dr . S . prefers the account of the mission of John ' s disciples in Matthew to that in Luke , and even thinks it possible that our Saviour may have spoken of the blind seeing and the dead being raised only in a figurative sense , though he admits that the reporter of his words has evidently understood them literally . In the interposed words of the narrator , ( ch . vii . 29 , 30 J

    declaring the belief of the people in John , and the unbelief of the Pharisees and lawyers , he finds a proof , that the author of the passage cannot be the same as he who had already given us an account of John ' s baptism , and who would not now have repeated it : but might it not with just as much probability be said , that the writer is the same , because he here corrects the apparent inconsistency of his former account with our Saviour ' s reproach of unbelief in him , by mentioning , what he has not said there , that the Scribes and Pharisees were not baptized ? The occurrence in Simon ' s house , ( ch . vii . 36—39 , ) Dr . S . thinks is the same with that recorded Matt . xxvi . 6—13 ,

    and as no time or place is mentioned in Luke , we feel no difficulty in adopting this opinion ; but that it should also be , as he thinks , the same incident mentioned John xii . 1—8 , implies a scarcely conceivable misapprehension on the part of the reporter in Luke , The answer of our Lord ( ch . via . 21 ) to those who announced to him his mother and his brethren , which Matthew

    ( ch . xii . 46 ) introduces , without any obvious connexion , and Mark refers ( ch iii . 31 ) to their opinion of his being beside himself , our author thinks most naturally explained by his pointing to those who had left their homes to accompany him on the journey mentioned ch . viii . I , and especially the women who had ministered to him of their substance . We have not room

    even for an abstract of the minute and curious analysis of the narrative , ch . viii . 22—56 , from a comparison of which , with the other evangelists , he infers , that it was derived from the lips of one of the three apostles , but one who was not present at the healing of the demoniac , having remained with the boat , when Jesus and the others landed in the territory of the Gadarenes . In the ninth chapter he connects ihe retirement of Christ ( ver . 10 ) with the excitement of Herod ' s curiosity , mentioned in the preceding verse ; and the question , " Who do the multitudes say that I am ? " ( ver , 18 , ) n o *

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    Review . ^ -SchleiermadherU Critical Essay on the Gospel St . Luke . 41

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1827, page 41, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1792/page/41/