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Further Illustrations of the word Atonement . 699
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and the church of Rome , not being in fundamentals , I cannot otherwise look uppn it but as a most Christian and piQiis WOfJc , to endeavour an atonement in the superstructure . So in Acts , cb . vii . v . 26 .- — - < He would have set them at one
again . ' It appears then , clearly , that the sense of the word atone has been changed , since our translation of the Bible was made . It is curious to inquire when and wherefore its old meaning wag abandoned ; for the observation of your correspondent ( in last Repository ) scarcely accounts for the new acceptation of the word ; and when we consider the unwarrantable use that has been made of every passage which contains this term , in bolstering up the
monstrous doctrine of vicarious punishment , we cannot take too much pains to expose the fraudulent abuse of language to which theologians have resorted . The chief subject of surprise , I think , is , that such indefatigable scholars as we have had , opposed to the common doctrine of the atonement , should not have insisted first on establishing the sense in which the sacred writers employ the word . Much labour , it appears to me , would have been saved by this step : and they
had no reason to apprehend reprisals ; for , the orthodox Dr . Nares himself , has not found , for his Glossary , a single instance where the word atonement is used in a sense different from that of reconciliation . Now we are upon the subject of the illustration of Scripture language by comparing it with that of secular , or profane writers , permit me to ask whether any remark has ever been made upon
a passage in a Greek play ( I cannot now recall it ) , where two persons are professing the most perfect sympathy , and desiring 1 to act in concert—to be as one f If I remember right , the very same word is employed , ( the neuter ev _ , ) which our orthodox commentators assure us can mean nothing but that identity which they have transformed into a Trinity . Inquirer . September 19 th .
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[ From Sermons on Christian Morality , preparing for publication , by W . J . Fqjl ] Who does not profess to adrnire and love sincerity ? It is thfe theme of universal eulogy , and very deservedly so , and in a certain sense very honestly so ; for those who have no jntentioft of practising it themselves , yet perceive that Jn many points it would
be very convenient to thern that it shoqld 'be practised by others , and so it has their hearty recommendation , And yetwitp all tljis praise there is , perhaps , npt another virtue with which society deals so harshl y * Yfe have heard of political virtues being
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1832, page 699, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1822/page/49/
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