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deeply with the importance of religious truth , to counsel , guide and interest the heart , and equally earnest in its inculcation , but disposed to give it d more amiable arid engaging form , and to feed the understanding with a wholesomer and purer aliment * Y .
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( Continued from p . 61 . ) We have already laid before our feaders a general account of the plan and execution of Mr . BloomfiekTs work . In the present article we propose to review a few of those annotations ' , which , from their own interest or the importance of the subjects to which
they relate , seem to have the strongest claims on our notice ; and if amongst these we have most frequently selected comments in which we cannot agree with the learned editor , we hope that this will be attributed to a desire of rendering our remarks more useful , not to any disposition to depreciate a work which we consider as upon the whole truly valuable .
We are happy in being first called upon for the expression of our approbation . The note on Matt . i . 21 ( " He shall save his people' from theii * sins" ) is too important , as illustrating the character of the work , to be passed by in silence . It is chiefly derived from Wetstein and Dr . Maltby . We translate a part of the passage from Wetstein . " By salvation" he says , " is here understood a remission of sins , not such ag could suggest to the sinner the hope of impunity and license , but such as requires serious
repentance and purification of the mind from former vices , from which arises a perfect security and assured hope of eternal felicity ; all which things , as they are in their nature closely connected together , are included in the word salvation or deliverance , not imperfect and temporary , but complete and worthy of God . The extract from Dr . Maltby is much to the purpose : " The verb acofyw , to preserve or save , and a-afyfjuit , to escape , to be preserved or saved , occur perhaps more than one hundred times in the N . T .
The significations may be classed under four general heads . —I . To preserve generally from any evil or danger whatsoever . II . To preserve from sickness or any bodily disorder ; to heal . This sense is the most easy to distinguish , yet it has not been duly attended to in every instance by our translators - III . To preserve from the temporal anger of the Almighty , such as was manifested in the destruction of Jerusalem . This notion appears to have * been originally founded upon expressions in the Jewish Prophets . IV . Td give future salvation in heaven . "
It might have been added that the two last senses are not always clearly distinguished ; salvation sometimes meaning all the blessings of the gospel , both with respect to this life and that which is to come ; both peculiar to the first age and common to all believers . It is worth notice , as explanatory of the IVth and , theologically speaking , principal sense of the word , that the expression of the angelic messenger is , " He shall save his people from theii sins . " not from the wrath or vengeance of God .
On Matt . i . 22 , there is also a useful note derived from Knapp and Wetstein , the substance of which should be fixed in the minds of those who would be intelligent readers of the New Testament *
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Review j ~ Blaomfield $ ' Recensio Synopticd 4 ' hnotdtionh Sacrik . 205
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Art . IL—Recensio Synoptica Annotationis Sacra , &c , &c . By the Rev * S . T . Bloomfield , M . A ., &c .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1827, page 205, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1794/page/45/
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