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    Art . III . —' Recehsio Synoptica Annotationis Sacra , &e ., &c . By the Rev S . T . Bloomfield , M . A ., &c . ( Continued from p . 211 . ) From what we have before had occasion to say of the determined orthodoxy of Mr . Bloomfield , it will be anticipated by our readers that we shall find more from which we must dissent in his annotations on the Gospel of

    John , than in those on the other evangelists ; and we cannot give him the praise of being always a candid adversary—much less an impartial judge : still we meet here , as in the other parts , with a great deal which must be accounted valuable by all sober-minded interpreters ; and the parts which we least approve may be instructive to the diligent inquirer , whilst they mislead those who blindly submit themselves to the guidance of a commentator of approved orthodoxy , or who are anxious to find pretences for believing what they have previously determined not to reject .

    That the Gospel of John should have seemed to our author to require some preliminary remarks , we cannot wonder ; but we think it would have been more useful to have attempted some short account of the different theories which have been proposed respecting its peculiar design , and the cause of its singularity of phraseology , giving reasons for the adoption of that

    which he has preferred ; more rational , at least , to have given a simple explanation of his own views , instead of copying a dissertation , a large part of which is in opposition to a theory with which most of his readers are unacquainted , and which is confessedly imperfect , inasmuch as it refers for its completion to another essay , * by the same author , of which no abstract is here offered to us . Dr . Tittman ' s introduction is , however , recommended

    by the high tone of its orthodoxy . He maintains that the Gospel of John was expressly written to give instruction respecting " the person and work of Chjcktf " --te-teach that " he existed before the beginning of the world witb God that he is God , and the creator of the universe * " Of Dr . ^ . ' s arguments f <> r the deity of Christ , we have before had occasion ( p . 60 ) to give

    one curious specimen , and we now add another , which certainty needs no remark from us to set it in its just light * John xvii . 5 , ( And now , OFather ! glorify me with thine own self , with the glory which I had with thee before the world was , ) is thus quoted : * ' Restore to me now in heaven that majesty which I had there with thee before the creation of the world" !!

    The first passage of Mr . Bloomheld ' s commentary to which we shall particularly call the attention of our readers , relates to chap . i . ver . 29 , " Behold the lamb of God , who taketh away , i . e . ( he says ) who expiateth the sins of ( he world , '' in defence of which gloss there is a long , and we must add ; though rejecting without hesitation the author ' s opinion , a useful and liberal annotation . The sense is thought to be , " that Christ underwent a cruel and ignominious death / or the sins of the whole world . " " There is an allusiori either to the paschal lamb , or to the lambs ordered to be sacrificed in the

    Old Testament , particularly what is called the iacrifidum juge , n e . the lamfas every day , morning and evening , slain in the the temple ; : At all events Christ is here considered as a wo ^ m offered up for tbe sins of men ; as in 1 ( Pet . i . 19- So 1 Cor , v « 7 * + * $ For Christ 0 Ur pastha * is sacrificed IOr < -UJfp \* : f , \< ; nti »•' : H r " ^ " * '<"» : ki ; " . .. \ t ' \ v . \ ¦ Vvi vuv ^ w . i . vV- ! ' >< ' * * ' v ' ^ v 1 ' ' TJh e , wnceriW > ty hereabout die sacrifice < rc&nrad to is very reinarkaMe , and is su ## i $ r ( tto # h&w hp ^ . liiU «! a ^ peiKienc ^ 3 an be jfcWd on th * mttipfrtattoiK " "; W"A ii ? A ' > 0 i / f 6 H 1 ^* VX ^'' 3 ! Plll l » 01 ^ r UT ^/^ m ^' ^'^ W / > ^ f ^ l' ? r ) ( , " ; Hiw"M v"v wi « » ? rcatigiifl aoosticorum id N . T . frui ^ ra qu «» Ui * ,

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1827, page 596, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1799/page/44/