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Till the termination of the first century , the church of Christ remained undefiled by heathenish corruptions respecting the person of our Lord . The best specimen that we can take—the only one of any value—of the sentiments of this age ,, is the epistle which Clement wrote to the Corinthians . Clement , third bishop of Rome , died about the year a . d . 100 . The highest title which
he ascribes to Christ— ' sceptre of the majesty' of God—is not so lofty as some applied to our Lord in the New Testament , nor as some applied even to Christians , while he gives the fullest proof that he believed in and worshipped the Father only , and held , as was natural to expect , the subordinatipn of Jesus Christ . Whom does he call on the Corinthians to adore ? God the Father . To
whom does he ascribe the works of Christ ? God the Father . Whom does he make supreme over all ? God the Father . A few years after the death of Clement , Philo flourished . He was a Greek Jew of Alexandria . He had imbibed the principles of the new Platonic philosophy ,, which was in high estimation among the Alexandrian Greeks . This philosophy had taught its
disciples to interpret the poetry of Homer allegorically—and hence Philo , learning to apply the allegorical explanation to the writings of Moses , converted into fables what was meant for real history . He therefore found in the Old Testament , the logos which he had brought with him from the Platonic school . This logos was at first an attribute in his estimation . But having a purpose for it to fulfil , something more than this was needed . Philo , influenced by his gentile philosophy , deemed it unbecoming the Creator to appear to man , as God is often recorded to have done in the Old Testament , This office , however , might with
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A radiant angel form—how dazzling bright ! How pure ! how beautiful to look upon ! With snowy wings outspread , poised like a bird , She seem'd to hover o ' er the multitude Like an embodied blessing from above ; I could have liv'd a long and blissful life In grazing on her—but brief time had I , For as the sever'd cloud dispers ed in air , The spell that bound that deathly stilly throng In silence , was dissolved , and there uprose One universal , rending , deafening , shout—One word was all I heard—that word was Truth . And I awoke ! Awoke unto a world Where yet the angel form is veiled in clouds . Oh ! God our Father , when wilt thou send down The blessed light from Heaven to pierce the gloom . ? Thou wilt in thine own time , —thy will be done .
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Rise and Progress of the doctrine of the Trinity .. 259
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RISE AND PROGRESS OF THE DOCTRINE OF THE TRINITY . PART II . ART . I .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1832, page 259, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1810/page/43/
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