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the Word was also Christ ? ( p . 28 . ) What is the Word ? < The Word , ** says Carne , ' a * John tells us , is God , God with God , as the Son of the Father : ' show us where John says so much . Again , says Graves , ' Jesus must be God of God : ' show us your Scripture warrant for the assertion ; and tell us the meaning of your words . * Is he God of or superior to , Jehovah , or a God from Jehovah , or a God the companion and associate of Jehovah ?'
( p . 28 . ) Further , we read , ( John x . 30 , ) c I and the Father are one ;' says J . J . Gurney , * He is therefore God . ' What then ? asks our shrewd Layman , ' When Jesus says , I ascend to my father , did he ascend in one p erson to himself , in another person ? Did he as man ascend to himself as God ? ' ( p . 36 . ) Quitting John for Paul , our author quietly assumes , ( p . 40 , ) that if , according to Peter , ( Second Epistle , iii . 16 , ) the Apostle of the Gentiles wrote * " some things hard to be understood 'and if the gospel doctrine be correctly described by its
promulgator , as pure and simple , * hid from the wise and prudent , but revealed to the poor and to babes '—it were better to avoid reading what is unintelligible ; for ' is that gospel which he taught , who told us he was the way , the truth , and the life , so deficient
in pointing out the way , the truth , and the life , that the poor cannot rely on that and that alone for salvation ? ' Paul may be great , but Jesus is greater ! and no further veneration is inculcated for the Apostle , by the Investigator , than his apostolic character claims . Instances are freely brought forward to show ,
that unanimity , even on the part of the Apostles , was by no means universal ; and that one might , and did , not unfrequently oppose another ; * withstand him to the face . ' Fearless , therefore , of consequences , and anxious only after truth , our Layman proceeds to the examination of various passages of apparent obscurity , but from which the difficulties usually vanish before the application of the simple recipe of literal translation .
Some sensible remarks follow , illustrative of the authority of the various versions of Scripture , and on the value of quotations from the Old Testament as cited by writers in the New ; and the pamphlet closes with an able and laborious examination of Isaiah vii . 14 , * Shall call his name Emmanuel' If no absolutely novel arguments are here brought forward , it is at least something to compress into eight octavo pages , the pith and marrow of what upwards of twenty quoted authors have advanced .
' Thou shalt call his name Jesus , ' says the angel to Mary ; but , ' says the Layman in his cool way , c how the calling of his name Jesus fulfils the prophecy that he should be called Emmanuel , we are left to find out as we can . ' ( p . 57 . ) And the conclusion is drawn in the words of Michaelis , * I cannot be persuaded that Isaiah vii . 14 has the least reference to the Messiah , but to a child that was to be born at the expiration of nine months , from a person , at that time 9 a virgin / ( p . 64 . )
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The Trinitarian Investigator . 185
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1832, page 185, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1808/page/41/
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