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- But we must recall our attention to Mr . Bloonifield , and quote a remark to which he appears to attach importance r " I must deny , " he says , ( on Matt . xii . 8 , ) " that the formula o «« & $ rs dvGpanov , ever signifies merely man or ^ a man . I think I may venture to maintain that it always signifies the Son of Manr , the Messiah ; and I defy the Unitarians , who have always strenuousl y battled for this sense as lowering the dignity of Christ , to prove that it ever does . "
We cannot help thinking that Mr . B . is right in enforcing the distinction between o vih <; t £ dvBpamv and vibq dvQpcoicov . The article marks the appro * priation of the phrase as the title of an individual to whom it was peculiarly applicable , and is therefore always employed when Jesus is intended ; but this does not alter the sense of the formula : and let it be remembered , that the interpretation , which we join our author in disapproving , of the Son of Man being lord of the Sabbath , though adopted by some Unitarians , belongs not exclusively , or even generally , to them , and has the high authority of Grotius and Kuinoel in its favour . Mr . B . has here strangely forgotten
himself . He makes profession of candour and liberality ; yet here , because some Unitarians , in common with some learned and distinguished men of orthodox sentiments , prefer an interpretation which he and many Unitarians alsa disapprove , he can accuse the Unitarians as a body of being guided in their explanations of Scripture by a desire of lowering the dignity of Christ ; and all this in reference to a phrase of which the Unitarian interpretation is so decidedly the most obvious and natural , that they might well reserve their arts , if capable of using any , for some occasion on which they might be more
needed-We do not observe any similar accusation of Mr . B . against the evil spirit of Unitarian ism , where it would be quite as judicious and well-timed , in his comment on Mark xiii . 32 , ( " Of that hour knoweth no man , no not the angels , nor the Son , but the Father only , " ) where , indeed , he seems at a loss which of three attempts at an orthodox explanation of the passage to prefer , and modestly says , " On this most difficult question I dare not venture to offer
an opinion . " We wish , though his note is already somewhat long , owing to the " extreme difficulty" of the passage , that he had favoured us with the satisfactory proof which , he assures us , is afforded by Muller , Kidder , and Masch , that our Lord ' s ignorance in this instance does not detract from his divinity . Truly , the Unitarians must be possessed by a very determined purpose of lowering the Master whom they profess to honour and serve , or they could never understand such passages as these as interfering with his divine nature or omniscience .
Matt . xxi . 2 . The account of our Lord ' s triumphant entry into Jerusalem is given by all the evangelists . Matthew is peculiar in his mention of two animals , as well as in quoting the words of Zechariah . We have no hesitation in understanding the passage in Zechariah of one animal , " sitting upon
an ass , even a young ass ; " and the exact fulfilment of the prophecy is marked by two evangelists , who mention that it was one " on which never man sat / ' It is possible the young ass may , as described in Matthew , have been taken from its mother , and that the mother may have followed , whilst the expression " upon them , " twice in ver . 7 , may be used vaguely , the writer not undertaking to say upon which Jesus rode ; but a suspicion arises in the mind of the narrative used by Matthew having been somewhat conformed to a mistaken view of the prophecy of Zechariah . The various readings respecting the twice-repeated word avruv in ver . 7 , and even ; probably % vol . i . p
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ReviewJ- —Bloomfield ' s kecensio Synoptica Annotationts Sacm . 209
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1827, page 209, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1794/page/49/
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