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146 Criticism on 2 Pet . u 16 , 21 .
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CRITICISM ON 2 PET . i . 16 21 . In this passage St . Peter , with great appearance of confidence , says— We have not followed cunningly devised fables when we made known to you tSVvapuv the miraculous power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ . * To prove this he titys— We were eye-witnesses of his majesty ; for , says he , he received from God the Father honour and glory , when there came such a voice to him from the excellent glory—This is my beloved Son in whom I am well pleased . And this voice we heard when we were with him in the holy mount . "
From this account of St . Peter , as well as from the history of the transfiguration itself , it appears that the great object of this vision was , to give an attestation from heaven to the truth of our Lord ' s character as the Messiah . c * Thig is my beloved son in whom I am well pleased . ' * St . Matthew and the two other evangelists , Mark and Luke , who record this vision , say— " Hear ye him—pay attention to him as such . "
The Apostle having g iven these proofs that they had not followed cunningly devised fables when they made known the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ , in the 19 th verse says— " We have rov ( ppofpnTixov fcoyov , the prophetic word concerning his coming , fisfiaiorspov more fully confirmed , whereunto ye do well that ye take heed as to a light shining in a dark place /"
To ascertain the apostle s precise meaning here , it will be necessary to observe that our Lord , in the gospel history , predicted with great minuteness and particularity the destruction of Jerusalem , asserting with the greatest emphasis and energy that it would be in that generation , and connecting with it the full proof of the true nature of his character as the Messiah . Matt , xxiv . 27 . " As the lightning cometh out of the East and shineth even unto the West , so shall also the [ true nature of the ] coming of the Son of man , [ Tor perspicuity ] be / ' V . 37 * " As the days of Noah were—which ivere days of vengeance—so shall also the coming of the son
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of Christians , but their present advantages and honour . This , I am aware , is not the light in which it has usually been : regarded : the reader will now judge whether it be not that which seems to be best supported by the context , and by the meaning of the same terms in other passages of scripture . P .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1807, page 146, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2378/page/34/
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