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    sentiments , without it being thought necessary to notice the very different views of the design of this Gospel entertained by other distinguished commentators , is the following passage : " As far as respects the person of Jesus , there cannot be any more manifest proof of his divinity than that which is drawn from the religious worship which prOOI OI HIS UlVlllliy iu . au mat wuiuu is uiawu num tiic rei > tgeuuo wvrontp wiixl-ix

    he has expressly claimed to himself , as in cap . v . 23 , ' That atl men should worship the Son as they worship the Father ? He that icorshipeth not the Son worshipeth not the Father . Never could Jesus have so spoken without blasphemy towards God 9 if he had been a mere man or a being inferior to the Deity , For he evidently ascribes to himself a parity and equality of majesty and iignity with the Father , while he requires of men the same religious worskip "—Introd . Vol . III . p . 11 .

    Now , it would be useless for us to point out that this precious piece of reasoning is founded on a needless and unjustifiable translation of the word TipSo-i , contrary to the sense of . all sober commentators , since it will be abundantly sufficient for us to quote our author ' s own annotation when he comes to the passage in the progress of his work . " What kind of honour is here meant [ observe , he does not call it worship ] plainly appears , " he tells us , " from the words rhv X 6 yov oLkovw and irurrtvuv r $ <* re /> M // avn , namely , to admit him as the Messiah , messenger of God , and interpreter of his will , and

    consequently to yield assent to the doctrines commanded by him in the name and at the command of God , and render obedience to all the moral injunctions of his religion ; " an interpretation the truth of which cannot with the appearance of reason be called in question , but which is perfectly Unitarian That its author could give his sanction to the above passage from Tittman , adopting it as his own , it is for him to reconcile with candour and justice . We shall give one other example . On John v . 21 , Mr . B . has the following annotation : he translates , " As the Father can restore life to the dead , so also can the Son restore life to vthom he will , " and remarks , " Verbs

    active are often to be interpreted potentially : and that they must be so taken in the present passage is plain from the context , for Jesus means to shew that he has equal power with the Father , [ ver . 19 , ] and he illustrates this by some examples of what kind of works he has received from the Father the power of performing . ( Rosenm . ) " We do not understand this . His power is equal with that of the Father , yet received from him , and of course dependent , that is inferior . Let us take the passage in its connexion .

    and can any one affirm that , according to the first principles of interpretation , it teaches the equality of the Son wjth the Father ? Ver . 19 , " Verily , verily , I say unto you , the Son can do nothing of himself , but what he seeth the Father do : for what things soever he doeth , these also doeth the Son likewise . " With the exception of a needless qualifying clause which we inclose in brackets , we adopt the explanation of Mr . B . from Kuinoel . " He shews the Jews that so far from making himself [ in all respects ! equal

    with God , he professes that he is acting , not by his own proper authority , but refers the whole system of action to the will , and pleasure of his Father , and therefore ought not to be accused of blasphemy . " Ver . 20 , " For the Father loveth the Son and sheweth him , i . e . enableth him to do , " ( $ ej * nw not only signifies to shew or teach , but has also sometimes the additional signification of impulse to action ^ and the imparting the faculty of doing what has been shewn : and that the word is here used in that sense is clear , Kuin . ap . Blomf ., ) " enableth him to do all things that himself does , and

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    $ 0 Review . —Bhomfield ' s Recensio Synoptica Afinotationh Sacra .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1827, page 60, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1792/page/60/